Abstract: Around the year 1921 when Bergsonism was wide spread in Chinese academia, the debate on the correlation between Bergsonism and Buddism appeared and Zhang Taiyan, Lv Cheng, Liang Shuming, Li Xijin and other famous scholars took part in this debate successively. Zhang and Li argued that Bergsonism and Buddism were related to each other and intuitionism, vital impetus and other categories conform to Alaya-consciousness and other thoughts in Vijnana-vada, whereas Lv and Liang held opposite opinion against this idea. Through exploring original materials, this thesis teases out the whole course of this debate and points out that this two opposite opinions represent the typical attitude toward the issue of “comparision between China and the West” among Chinese academia over a hundred years.

Key words: intuitionism, vital impetus, vijnana-vada, alayavijnana