MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Qin Dynasty, Yellow Emperor, Heart Sutra

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 12
• Professor: Richard Cohen

Document Summary

Feb 29 lecture china revisited, from the han to the tang l. Indian mahayana wisdom n perfection of wisdom=prajnaparamita n the heart sutra the heart of understanding (page 1, 2) u. India: context sensitivity n ren (cid:1) u benevolence n xiao (cid:6) u filial piety. One should act as parents order u daoism l lao zi l zhuang zi l. In contrast, the culture, technology and literature were not lost n ge hong (cid:11)(cid:8) u going through various literature at the age of 16 u also a pharmacist, general and a scholar u. In his autobiography depiction of a gentleman u p. 92 l. There were 13,299 volumes of books in all [in the han], and since the wei dynasty, all genres of literature have doubled in quantity. n. Jacques gernet, a history of chinese civilization u from the decline of han to sui and tang, is the richest and most.