Religious Studies 2140 Midterm: Religious Studies 2140 2nd Mid-Term notes.doc

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 2140
• Professor: Terry Webb

Document Summary

History of china: chinese culture is ancient, maybe even more ancient than indian culture. In their idea, there is considerable merging of heaven and earth direct parallel what happens in heaven and what happens on earth are directly related to each other. Heaven changes its mind over politics or nature, but it is seen here on earth. Any change on earth is originated/ mandated in heaven: the chinese language is highly structured. The first and greatest was jade emperor who lived for 28,000 years. When he died, he and his goddess, the queen of heaven, went to heaven and became the heavenly parents: thus, they are now in heaven but they once ruled the qin empire. Over centuries, the qin kingdom developed (it goes back thousands of years): the first unified groups in china are far older than the groups in india; hence,