RLG100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter CIWR 479-503 — Chinese and Korean Traditions: Curbed, Good Governance, Citta
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Ciwr reading: pages 479-503 chinese and korean traditions. Followers mainly live in east and southeast asia, australia, new zealand, western europe and north. Mythical fouders and heroes include yao, shun, and yu in china and dangun in korea. Famous rst teachers (some are mythical and some are historic) include the yellow emperor, confucius, and laozi in china and choe chung in korea. For confucians, the place of a deity is lled either by heaven or by heaven and earth together. Daoists see the way as personi ed by laozi as a deity. Popular religions, both korean and chinese, include hundreds of deities. For confucians the classics from the zhou and han dynasties are the foundational texts. For daoists laozi and to a lesser degree, zhuangzi are fundamental. The foundational layers of animism and shamanism remain visible today in traces of tribal practices focused on dealing with the insecurities of life.
