REL-1300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Midrash, Dukkha, Upanishads
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A similar situation applies to confucius who became known to his followers as the master. Confucius is the romanised version of k"ung fu-tzu which means master kung. Like jesus, confucius left no writings of his own and so we also have to rely on the accounts handed down by later generations of his disciples. Both men showed a keen interest in religion at an early age. Rites at a very early age, and jesus himself is recorded to have stayed behind in a temple on one notable occasion after his mother and joseph had left. - neither took up high powered influential jobs, jesus becoming a carpenter like joseph, and confucius turning his hand to shepherding and book-keeping. Both were aware of the sheer poverty of their respective nations, and confucius learnt some of the harshest realities of life with his father dying when he was aged only three. Jesus contended with the same existing religious order in palestine.
