Does Caigen Tan belong to Buddhism?

Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations about practice, life, social life and fertility compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. It is a rare treasure training in the vast past, with the crystallization of the truth of three religions and nine streams, and the eternal truth that has been passed down from generation to generation. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation. Caigen Tan is a collection of aphorisms and essays focusing on the thought of life. It adopts a quoted style, combining the Confucian doctrine of the mean, Taoist inaction and Buddhist philosophy of life.

In a word, the author of this book is a typical China traditional scholar, and his thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have been studied. This book is the essence of his life experience, so all three ideas are involved. The book also mentions Buddhist thoughts such as vanity and inaction; Moreover, one edition is printed by a Buddhist bookstore, but it cannot be simply considered as a Buddhist book.