cording to Confucianism, retribution goes not actually to the doer self but to his or her whole family possible. However, according to Buddhism, one who gets by what one deserves. Either happiness or suffering from one's actions. This is what the dissimilarity of the two. Master Kong Senghui had also translated and edited the scripture of Satparamita-sutra by adapting the Mahayana concept of benevolence to relevant the Confucius concept of kindheartedness or humanity in order to coordinate with the Confucius politic and moral principles.
Until the Chinese South and North Dynasties, with the scriptures of all Buddhist schools of India were introduced and translated systematically in China, Buddhism had altered its early way of dependence on the Chinese traditional culture and began to have a contradiction and argument with the latter. The controversy held in various areas particularly on such questions like "should the Buddhist monks pay their respects to Emperor", "whether soul is extinctive or non-extinctive" and "whether there exists cause and effect", so on.
Should the Buddhist monks respect Emperor is a question related not only to the religious etiquette but also the political ethics. Since the Chinese West and East Han Dynasties, the superiority of to serve one's country and the Emperor and the superiority of to wait upon one's parents had been highly advocated in the Chinese feudal culture. This kind of priority of clansman and state departmentalism, of course, contradicts to the Buddhist way of life---to renounce the worldly life, to ignore the secular proprieties and to wander here and there. According to Confucianism, Buddhism is one that puts a slight upon either parents or emperor or etiquette. The quarrel between Buddhism and both Confucianism and Taoism had been sustained till the end of the Tang Dynasty. As a result, Buddhism was defeated. It had no alternative but to accept the concept: Renwang ji fawang --- the secular ruler is as the same to the Dharma Raja. So it was forced to give up the tradition--- that the Buddhist monks are not necessary paying respect to both the Emperor and their parents.
Buddhist theory of cause and effect in three periods of time have been put forward on the base of the law---Paticcesamupada (Dependant Origination). According to Buddhism, man consists of five elements, there is no soul or substance lives hind. However, owning to the Chinese people traditionally being blinded by prejudice of belief in demons or ghosts, so they considered that the theory of cause and effect in three periods of time advocated by Buddhism was to aim at advertising theory of immortality of soul after life. Even to those who were good at Confucianism come to study Buddhism had got stuck in miscomprehend and irrelevant the doctrine of Buddhism. Represented by Hui Yuan, a famous monk of the East Jun Dynasty, who had advocated the immortality of soul which caused a long-drawn-out controversy on either the mortality of soul or immortality of soul.
A heated argument between Buddhism and Taoism is also a tough event of the day. Because of, doctrinally differences between Buddhism and Taoism, it caused contradictions in various aspects. The Buddhist monks and Taoists had always argued about the superiority of each own religion so as to fight for the high position in the society politically. In order to show Taoist superiority to Buddhism, some Taoist monks of the Jun Dynasty had fabricated the so-called Buddhist sutra "Lao Zi Huan Hu Jing". It says that the founder of Taoism Lao Zi went to west (here means India). After having converted Sakyamuni to be his disciple Lao Zi advised him to found Buddhism. Buddhism waged a tit-for tat. Buddhist monks did the same. They had also created Taoist sutra named "Qing Jing Fa Xing Jing" (Sutra of Pure Conduct) so as to oppose diametrically to Taoism. It say that the Buddha used to send his three disciples to China to convert people to Buddhism. The so-called Rutong Boddhisa

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