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"Geyi" used to be a methodology to preach Buddhist ideas in China when Buddhism first arrived in China. Borrowing from analogous concepts and terminology which are familiar to the local people to explain the ideas of an unacquainted Buddhism - this is the meaning of Geyi. It is an interesting phenomenon to see a reversed trend of Geyi is going on in the latest development of Buddhist psychology. "Reverse Geyi" is a methodology to adopt Western terminology to explain and interpret Chinese traditional thoughts. In the recent development of Buddhist psychology, using Western psychology theories and concepts to explain, interpret or elaborate Buddhist ideas about the mind is an obvious trend in academia. While "Geyi" could be regarded as a temporary means for people to understand Buddhist ideas, what is the purpose of adopting "Reverse Geyi"? This paper intends to explore the role of "Reverse Geyi" in the recent development of Buddhist psychology. To achieve this objective, this paper first studied the discourse of researchers in this field. What are the goals they want to achieve? Why are they adopting Western psychology to interpret Buddhist ideas about the mind? There are two main goals that the researchers want to achieve, including 1) popularizing Buddhist psychology's knowledge, and 2) modernizing Buddhist psychology. With the analysis of relevant examples, this paper concludes that adopting "Reverse Geyi" as a means to achieve those two goals is useful temporarily. It cannot be adopted as a long-term strategy. More focus should be put on empirical studies to realize the goals set by the researchers in the field of Buddhist psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]