EASIA101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Song Dynasty, Taoism, Han Yu

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: East Asian Studies
• Course: EASIA101
• Professor: David Quinter

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Han yu: the buddha did not understand proper social relations and would not have been taken seriously even in own lifetime. the buddha a foreigner who dressed differently and did not speak chinese. Han yu aimed to revive the way of the sages which he distinguished from the way of daoism and buddhism (304) This meant tracing the transmission of the way fro mthe ancient sage kings to the rules of the zhou dynasty to confucius and the to mencius argued that the confucian way of humaneness and righteousness had declined after. Mencus but was better for china than the ways of daoism and buddhism.