bodhidharma - answer-founder of the Ch'an school of buddhism in china
Ch'an - answer-important school of chinese buddhism
dhyana - answer-mediation
cheng ming - answer-"rectification of names"; confucian doctrine that given names have given meanings
chi - answer-generic terms for all fo...
chun tzu - answer-a nobleman or gentleman; originally someone born
aristocracy /// Confucian meaning = someone who has reached perfection
through learning, not birth
chung - answer-centrality
yung - answer-normality
chung yung - answer-the mean or the middle
Confucius - answer-from state of Lu, humble beginnings as gov official;
becomes teacher and takes on disciples; the Analects result from his
teachings
euhemerization - answer-description of mythmaking which claims historical
figures gradually become deified; from notes: china: gods--> human life
opposite greek theory
,fan - answer-"to return" refers to Taoist notion of getting back on path
Five Classics - answer-Book of HISTORY, POETRY, RITUAL, CHANGES, / Spring
and Autumn Annals
Fu Hsi - answer-culture hero said to have invented fishing and trapping
Han Dynasty - answer-
hsiao - answer-filial piety, proper relationships b/t children and parents
Hsun Tzu - answer-third most imp Confucian thinker; major interpreter for
centuries, looked down upon in past
Huang Ti - answer-the "Yellow Emperor", who invented metallurgy
Hui-nung - answer-6th patriarch of Ch'an who received transmission of mind
from Hung-jen, 5th patriarch
Hui K'o - answer-disciple to whom Bodhidharma "transmitted mind"
hun & p'o - answer-earliest words of soul; at birth they come together in the
body and assume consciousness; hun goes up and p'o sinks down after
death; no notion of rebirth
i - answer-righteousness, implies morality
jen - answer-humanness, benevolence, literally man-to-manness, character
showing a doubling of man
kuei - answer-ghosts, one's ancestral spirits can become these if the
ancestral sacrifice isn't performed regularly and correctly
Lo Tzu - answer-"old master", purported author of the Tao te ching, but his
historicity has been questioned; perhaps composit name for three figures
li - answer-rites and propriety, ritual attitude towards things
Mencius - answer-Confucian author whose book becomes canonical in 13th
century; first to expound on hsing (human nature), of which there are four
components
pi-kuan - answer-"cliff-gazing", refers to intensely concentrated form of
meditation practiced by Bodhidharma
,Sage Kings - answer-Yao, Shun, and Yu. responsible for founding of Hsia, but
no adequate archeological evidence
Shang Dynasty - answer-earliest ruling dynasty known in China
Shang Ti - answer-"ruler upon high" or "first ancestor", ancestor of Shang
dynasty's royal family who becomes the main deity
Shen Nung - answer-culture hero who invented agriculture and commerce
shih - answer-form of divination; character suggests manipulation of yarrow
stalks
ta-hsueh - answer-"great learning"; chapter of ritual classic Li Chi
t'ien - answer-heaven, most likely refers to ancestor of Chou Dynasty; refers
both to a theological term and scientific one; comes to replace Shang Ti
when the Chou conquer Shang in the 12th century
t'ien ming - answer-"mandate of heaven", explanation given to Shang people
by Chou when they were conquered; the logic is that heaven sets up new
rulers as soon as the previous one turns away from virtue
t'ien tzu - answer-king, the "son of heaven" who operates under t'ien ming
tao - answer-the way
Tao te ching - answer-the Classic-of-the-Way (tao) and Power (te)
Tao tsang - answer-the Taoist Canon which is made up of 1600 texts
tsu - answer-ancestor, the first component of the character means "spirit"
wang - answer-king
wei - answer-weft, suggests heterodoxy
wu - answer-shaman
wuwei - answer-non-action
yin/yang - answer-darkened and sunny side of hill respectively; yin
associated with the female, moon, and passivity, yang associated with male,
sun, and aggression; facets of the same totality; their forces are constantly
interacting, extending to all pairs of opposites
, Yuuh i-tsu - answer-"with one foot" an example of reverse euhemerization,
mythological figure who eventually takes on characteristics of a human
being
Order of dynasties - answer-Hsia/Xia (prehistoric): 20001600 bce
Shang: 15541045/1040 bce
Chou/Zhuo: 1045/1040256 bce
Sage Kings - answer-Yao
Shun
Yu (founder of Hsia/Xia)
Tom wang - answer-big man
Probably refers to an ancestor
Early version of honoring ancestors
Filial peity
Offspring for linitage and to take care of you
Euhemerization - answer-god walked on Earth, died (greek theory gods)
Culture Heros - answer-Fu Hsi/Fuki (2008 bce) = invented fishing trapping/
horticulture and living
Shen Nung/Shen Nong (2007 bce) = farming
Huang Ti/ Huangdi (2600 bce) = netalorgy (earliest ideas of a state) =
better weapon
Duke of Zhou - answer-Mandate of heaven
Tienming "Things are the way they are" (sky rules earth)
Croul emerging (hunup; podown) bianary reps yin and yang
Confucianism - answer-Ethic and moral is foundation of Chinese culture
• Fundamentals of educational system
o If you became a civil servants you could have to study the Confusions
classics
• Equal strong hold in Korea, Japan and China (big impact in East Asia) o
Mostly Chinese who went to India were buddish
• Chinese are trying to revive confusion learning but opening centers
worldwide which teach confusion principles to the world as a way to teach
Chinese culture
IS confucianism a religon - answer-No missionaries to convert others (in
Buddhism there were conversions)
- Not a world relgions/ primarily in china
- Not even a religion --- because doesn't deal Seterology and eschatology
BUT Mormomethical philosophy so it shares a lot of the same characteristics
as religons
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