中国佛教既有前宗派时期的格义佛教类型, 更有宗派佛教义学建构时期发挥重要作用的“证义”佛教类型。日本批判佛教论, 作为后宗派时代佛教思潮, 由于缺乏历史与文本的双重解读, 并未真正如实地评判如来藏—本觉思想在中国宗派佛教创建中(即“证义佛教”阶段) 的地位与作用, 特别是对唐代沙门法藏等人如来藏缘起论的阐释建构, 没有足够的重视。

Chinese Buddhism is composed of both Geyi Buddhism (hermeneutic Buddhism) in the pre-sectarian period and Zhengyi Buddhism (existential Buddhism) in the period when sectarian Buddhism took shape.The Japanese Buddhism, as a kind of post-sectarian Buddhist thought, fails to do justice to the role played by the thought of Tathāgata-garbha and inner-Buddha (Original Enlightenment) in the formation of sectarian Buddhism in China, due to its inadequacy in historical understanding and textual interpretation.Particularly, it does not pay enough attention to Fa Zang and others' contribution to the interpretation and construction of Paticcasamuppada of Tathāgata-garbha in Tang Dynasty.