or hsüan-hsüeh
(Chinese; " Dark Learning ")
Intellectual movement in China in the 3rd–4th century that arose during a period of disenchantment with Confucianism .
Founded by Wang Bi (226–249), the movement drastically reinterpreted Confucian sources and incorporated aspects of Daoism . Wang and his followers tried to determine whether the nature of ultimate reality was being or nothingness and sought to discover if the principle underlying a thing was universal or particular. The movement played an important role in the development of Chinese Buddhism .