With regard to just the poems and prose of Eastern Jin Dynasty, many had intimate relationship with the various thoughts peculiars to Buddhism, e.g. Emptiness (sunya), Mind, Compassion, Cause and Effect, Precepts (Vinaya) etc.

• 就东晋诗歌而言,其中的玄言诗、山水诗、佛理诗与佛教的宗教理想和佛学理论中独特的思维方式,如空、心性、言意、大慈大悲、因果、戒律之类皆有密切的关系;