"...the Buddhists almost invariably ranked Buddhism as the ultimate cure while characterizing Confucianism as a worldly dharma-medicine which merely provided a view of the temporary and which, though necessary for those who were unable to achieve profound transformation because of their thin and weak capacities, needed to be transcended if salvation were to be attained."

"...the Confucians, on the other hand, brought against Buddhism a whole array of charges which suggest that they considered it to be among the worst of all heterodoxies."

The Neo-Confucian Confrontation with Buddhism: A Structural And Historical Analysis