1. For a list of topics that were discussed between Buddhists and Daoist in the late fourth and fifth centuries, see Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Das Hung-ming chi und die Aufnahme des Buddhismus in China (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1976), 135.
2. Paul Demiéville, “La pénétration du bouddhisme dans la tradition philosophique Chinoise,” Cahiers d’Histoire Mondiale 3 (1956): 19–38, 24–27.
3. Gaoseng zhuan, Chapter 6, trans. Erik Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaption of Buddhism in Early Medieval China (Leiden: Brill, 1959), 241.
4. Zürcher, Buddhist Conquest of China, 288–307. See also Max Deeg: “Laozi oder Buddha? Polemische Strategien um die «Bekehrung der Barbaren durch Laozi» als Grundlagen des Konflikts zwischen Buddhisten und Daoisten im chinesischen Mittelalter,” Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 11 (2003): 209–234.
5. Walter Liebenthal, “Chinese Buddhism During the 4th and the 5th Centuries,” Monumenta Nipponica 11, no. 1 (1955): 44–83. Robert Sharf even argues that an Indian-Chinese dialogue never took place and that Chinese Buddhism solely discussed Chinese topics; cf. his Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002), 17–21.