China Flashcards
Chinese belief systems
Daoism is what
Ancient chinese philosophy
what is Daoism mean
All things - earth,heavan,and people - should follow the Dao “the way”or flow of nature and will find place and leave society to live close to nature
Whomade Buddhism
areligion based on Inddian spirtuial leader siddharta Gautama a.k.a, Budha
Buddhism religon
life involves suffering. The way to ease suffering is to give up world desires and seek enlighhtement. Reach enlightenment enter nirvana = state of complete peace gained strength during china’s period of disunion
Confucianism
based on teachings of confucius
confucianism religon
focuesd on ethics, or proper behavior. after confucuis death ideas spread but not widely accepted. by han dynasty, confucianism was offical state philosophy.
period of dusnion
confucianism overshoadowed by budhhism
buddhism focused on what
a more spirtual outlook to escape suffering
neo-confusiansm is what
under song dynasty it happened and neo means new it would empashized behaivor and spirtual matters also became offical goverment philosophy after song dynasty