明清耶穌會的「補儒絕佛」──以《丙寅（1686年）會課》中的「持齋」問題為例

“Complementing Confucianism and Rejecting Buddhism” by Ming-Qing Jesuits: Research on the Teaching Sessions in 1686; the Question of Fasting

Research on religions in the Ming and Qing has recently shifted from clerics to civil society. This paper presents the background of a catholic school in Nanjing at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and analyzes the assignments written by 16 students about the Buddhist fast. Their voices are anonymous and yet reveal how Catholicism borrowed from the Confucian classics to denounce the Buddhist fast, giving to the Confucian canon the highest authority to differentiate between the Buddhist and Catholic practice of the fast.