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Li Ao - Buddhist, Taoist or Neo-Confucian? (Hardcover)
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Li Ao - Buddhist, Taoist or Neo-Confucian? (Hardcover)
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Neo-Confucianism, the state sponsored orthodoxy of China's later
empires, is now recognized as an important key to understanding
China. This study looks at the roots of Neo-Confucianism in an age
when Buddhism and Taoism had eclipsed the Confucian tradition in
importance. Li Ao (c. 772-836 A.D.), though generally acknowledged
as a forerunner of Neo-Confucianism, is still regarded as deeply
influenced by Buddhism. The historical reasons for the creation of
this image of Li Ao are examined, prior to a close investigation of
the actual circumstances which shaped his "Fu-hsing shu" "Book of
Returing to One's True Nature" the essay which had the deepest
influence on the development of early Neo-Confucianism. Although
common assumptions about Buddhist influence on Li Ao are
questioned, the true importance of the essay emerges in the
typically Chinese patterns of thought which it exhibits and which
gave it an impact transcending the immediate circumstances that
prompted its writing.
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