Bianxue yidu 辯學遺牘
By Li Madou 利瑪竇 (Matteo Ricci) and others.
One juan in one volume (thirty-three folios). Chinese bamboo paper. Re-engraved by the Qinyitang of Fuzhou (Fujian) after the second Xishizhai edition 習是齋續梓欽一堂刻. No date of publication.

The cover bears a label with the title in Chinese and a Latin inscription: “Dialogus inter P. Riccium et doctorem sinen. de falsis sectis, metempsychosi, etc.”

Having read the Tianshuo (Essays on Heaven) of the monk Shen (Zhuhong), I felt very sorry from him. How unexpected was his passing away after an interval of a few months! I have been told that on his death-bed he repented, saying: “I have gone astray and I have misled many [of my followers].” How terrible! This came from his sincere heart and it exposed his whole life, which admitted no hypocrisy. The virtuous men of our time believe that these eminent monks are all convinced of a future beatific life in the Western world. Is the Western world a labyrinth? Those who realize that they are not sages should embrace the truth instead of [walking in] error, otherwise how are they to avoid the same fate as Lienchi (Zhuhong)? As I went through this book I was greatly inspired by the clarity of its arguments. The book was written out of necessity, since it serves as a precaution to those who might fall into this pool of errors. (Signed by Migezi).

Cf. Jap-Sin I , 50.
Cf. Albert Chan, Chinese books an documents in the Jesuits Archives in Rome, pp. 82-83.

Contents:
Introduction: Christianity and cultures: Japan & China in comparison, 1543-1644 / M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J.
I. Christian missionaries and their encounter with Japan & China: 1. The Jesuit encounter with Buddhism in Ming China / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia. 2. From Dainichi to Deus. The early missionaries’ discovery and understanding of Buddhism / Kishino Hisashi. Responses & Reflections / Nicolas Standaert, S.J.
II. The challenges of religious translation: creating a native East Asian Christian literature. 3. The archaeology of dreams: the Shengmengge, its translation and its transformation / Li Sher-shiueh. 4. The Japanese translations of the Jesuit mission press / William Farge, S.J. Responses & reflections / Thierry Meynard, S.J.
III. Living the new faith I: Christian liturgy & rituals: 5. The adaptation of the Christian liturgy & sacraments to Japanese culture during the Christian era in Japan / Ignatia Kataoka Rumiko. 6. A Solution to the Rites Controversy proposed by Antonio Rubino, S.J. / Asami Masakazu. Responses & reflections / Eugenio Menegon.
IV. Japanese and Chinese Christians: native faith communities & organizations: 7. Communities, Christendom, and the unified regime in early modern Japan / Kawamura Shinzō, S.J. 8. Trade, literati, and mission: the Catholic social network in late Ming southern Fujian / Zhang Xianqing. Responses & reflections / Gail King.
V. Living the new faith II: Christian art & its various expressions: 9. Artistic exchanges between Macau and Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mo Xiaoye. 10. The iconography of the Virgin Mary in Japan & its transformation: Chinese Buddhist sculpture & Maria Kannon / Wakakuwa Midori. Responses & reflections / Thomas M. Lucas, S.J.
VI. The politics of the encounter: Japanese and Christian attitudes towards Christianity & Christians: 11. The Edo Shogunate’s view of Christianity in the seventeenth century / Yamamoto Hirofumi. 12. Europaeology? On the difficulty of assembling a knowledge of Europe in China / Timothy Brook. Responses & reflections / Qi Yinping.
VII. Macau at the crossroads of Europe and East Asia: 13. The Japanese students in the College of Macau (1594-1606) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa. Responses & reflections / Patrick Provost-Smith.
Epilogue: Christianity and cultures: Japan & China in comparison, 1543-1644. Reflections on a significant theme / John W. Witek, S.J.

Abstract also in English: Apologetic dialogues between Catholicism and Buddhism during the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty in China.
Acknowledgements include the Ricci Institute and Fr. Malatesta on added title page.
Local access dig.pdf. [Chung Andrew Dissertation.pdf]