RT Article T1 Confucian Spirituality JF Journal of Dharma VO 10 IS 1 SP 75 OP 82 A1 Ching, Julia LA English YR 1985 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/183775604X AB What "spirituality" can a down-to-earth practical morality like Con- fucianism have? This is the kind of question a Christian may pose, out of ignorance for a foreign system of thought which he or she may associate with humanism without God. This shows the ignorance of the West regarding Confucianism, an ignorance which has not been overcome by four centuries of encounter, starting especially with Jesuit missionaries in China, Matteo Ricci and his confreres. who were the earliest Western interpreters of Confucianism. K1 Confucian Spirituality K1 Confucius the Model K1 Jen as Love K1 Meanings of Jen K1 Spiritual Guidance