ASIA 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Yamazaki Ansai, Fujiwara Seika, Kennin-Ji
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Foster samurai learning in the buke sho hatto, as well as at the domainal level. To follow both bun and bu: what do you do with the samurai class in times of peace. Coincides with an epistemological shift away from buddhism and toward. Fundamentally different ways of seeing the world. Perhaps c. 400 a. d. copies of analects of confucius and thousand character classic arrive from korea. It acquires more momentum in japan after 600. After 600, china was in tang dynasty (cosmopolitan and a a fundamentally. Cosmological and divinatory overlays of initial ethical message. Confucianism that japanese were first exposed was about fortune telling (when is a good time to marry, undertake a major project, etc. Early japanese confucianism has an enduring theme of harmony, and thfe trappings of an elegant upbringing but overall a marginal impact during what becomes a buddhist age. Zhu xi 1130-1200 transforms and reinvigorates chinese confucianism so that we today call it neo-confucianism.
