RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Taejo Of Goryeo, Goryeo, Meritocracy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Lisa M.Blake, Jingjing Li

Document Summary

Lecture - feb 10: uni ed silla and parhae, adopted a chinese style of gov 668-935 ce. Buddhist art: painting and sculpture: kudara kannon: a sculpture found in japan but a korean sculpture. The bone rank system: a tribal organization system focused on social status (kings to of cials to servants etc). The bone rank is hereditary and you are born into a speci c class, there is no way of changing classes: behavioural laws: the people in the middle class could only wear silk, not cotton. People in the lower statuses weren"t allowed to have rituals. Sometimes in a low bone rank, you couldn"t go to someone"s house who is in a higher one: social structure: 4 classes, upper: royal clan, scholar-of cials, middle: civil, military workers. 4. lower: free inferior: slaves, unfree the above is for korea but in china the classes went (school of cials, farmers, craftsmen, and bottom is merchants and traders)