CONFUCIANISM AND TAOISM IN DIALOGUE: TWO CONSTANT PARADIGMS OF A TOTALITY IN LIFE APPROACH AND ACCEPTANCE
When years ago, upon my arrival to China, I told professor with whom I was to work, of my wish to research into the Doade jing -the basic work of Taoism -the master answered: "Good, just start with a translation of the Four Books from classical into modern Chinese and research into the Confucia...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2000
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2000, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-160 |
| Further subjects: | B
Taoism
B Confucianism |
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| Summary: | When years ago, upon my arrival to China, I told professor with whom I was to work, of my wish to research into the Doade jing -the basic work of Taoism -the master answered: "Good, just start with a translation of the Four Books from classical into modern Chinese and research into the Confucian Canon". That was not, as I realized later, a whim of the master, that he did not want to be directed by the obstinacy of a beginner. Rather it was wisdom, born of an experience that one has to penetrate gradually into Taoism, starting with the experience of the world that is offered to us in our everyday reality, or, as this reality was philosophically determined by Confucins. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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