{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/cair/cair02.htm","path":"cfu/cair/cair02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/cair/cair02.htm","text":"Confucianism and Its Rivals, by Herbert A. Giles, [1915]\n| LECTURE I | | \n| B.C. 8000-1200 | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The word \"God\"\u2014The Canon of Changes\u2014Revelation\u2014The Diagrams\u2014Divination\u2014T\u2018ien = God\u2014Anthropomorphism\u2014Canon of History\u2014Shang Ti, an alternative for T\u2018ien\u2014Sh\u00ean or Shin\u2014Sacrifice\u2014Ancestral worship\u2014Canon of Poetry (or Odes)\u2014Natural phenomena\u2014Magic | 1 | \n| | | \n| LECTURE II | | \n| B.C. 1200-500 | | \n| The Chows\u2014Hou Chi's miraculous birth\u2014Sacrifices\u2014T\u2018ien and Shang Ti\u2014Impersonation of the dead\u2014God in the Odes\u2014Annals of the Lu State\u2014The Commentary\u2014Oaths\u2014\"Propriety\"\u2014Fear of God\u2014Human sacrifices\u2014Eclipses\u2014Drought, famine, etc.\u2014Spirits\u2014The soul\u2014Prayer | 33 | \n| | | \n| LECTURE III | | \n| B.C. 500-800 | | \n| Confucius\u2014His beliefs\u2014A chosen vessel\u2014The will of God\u2014Spiritual beings\u2014Sacrifices to them\u2014Divination, fasting, etc.\u2014Mourning\u2014Man born good\u2014Points of contact with Christianity\u2014Standard of Confucius\u2014His inspiration\u2014Esteemed by disciples\u2014Mencius\u2014His view of God\u2014Spirits of mountains, etc.\u2014Man's original nature\u2014Confucianism not a \"mere philosophy\" | 65 | \n| p. viii | | \n| LECTURE IV | | \n| B.C. 300-200 | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Mencius on man's nature\u2014The philosopher Kao\u2014The philosopher Hs\u00fcn\u2014His attitude towards the Deity\u2014The philosophers Yang Chu and Mo Ti\u2014Ch\u2018\u00fc P\u2018ing\u2014God in his poems\u2014God Questions\u2014Divination\u2014T\u2018an Kung on burial, mourning, and divorce\u2014The \"First Emperor\"\u2014Burning of the Books\u2014Ascent of Mt. T\u2018ai\u2014Sacrifices\u2014The god of the soil | 96 | \n| | | \n| LECTURE V | | \n| B.C. 200-A.D. 100 | | \n| Lao Tz\u016d\u2014His non-historical character\u2014Chuang Tz\u016d expounds his teachings\u2014Life and death\u2014The soul\u2014God as the Ultimate Reality\u2014God subordinate to Tao\u2014The value of Tao\u2014The prince of Huai-nan on Lao Tz\u016d\u2014A miracle\u2014Alchemy\u2014The elixir of life\u2014Book attributed to Lao Tz\u016d\u2014The heterodox writers Yang Hsiung and Wang Ch\u2018ung\u2014God not anthropomorphic | 129 | \n| | | \n| LECTURE VI | | \n| A.D. 100-600 | | \n| Arrival of Buddhism\u2014A miracle\u2014Mission to India\u2014K\u00e2shiapm\u00e2danga\u2014Buddhachinga\u2014Kum\u00e2raj\u00eeva\u2014Spread of the faith\u2014Man\u00e2y\u00e2na and H\u00eenay\u00e2na\u2014The Diamond S\u00fbtra\u2014Fa Hsien's mission\u2014Development of Taoism\u2014Features common to Buddhism and Christianity\u2014Taoism and Buddhism borrow from one another\u2014Taoist papacy\u2014Revival of Confucianism\u2014The Confucian temple Mazdaism\u2014Manich\u00e6ism | 165 | \n| | | \n| LECTURE VII | | \n| A.D. 600-1000 | | \n| The Nestorians\u2014The Tablet\u2014Buddhism at Court\u2014Arrival of B\u00f4dhidharma, the Patriarch\u2014Buddhism prevails over Taoism\u2014Both prohibited\u2014Mission of Hs\u00fcan Tsang | | \n| p. ix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| \u2014The bone of Buddha and Han W\u00ean-kung\u2014Liu Tsung-y\u00fcan on Buddhism\u2014His \"God Answers\"\u2014Is there a God?\u2014Buddhism out of favour\u2014Mahometanism\u2014Ascent of Mt. T\u2018ai\u2014Vitality of Confucianism | 196 | \n| | | \n| LECTURE VIII | | \n| A.D. 1000-1915 | | \n| Confucianism prevails\u2014Impermanency of canonizations\u2014Su Tung-p\u2018o's allusions to God\u2014Chu Fu Tz\u016d, the philosopher\u2014His interpretation of \"God\"\u2014On man's nature\u2014Denounces Taoism and Buddhism\u2014Shao Yung's location of God\u2014Judaism\u2014Ricci, S.J.\u2014Jewish Tablet\u2014Its inscription\u2014Mahometanism\u2014Roman Catholicism\u2014A term question\u2014The Sacred Edict\u2014Protestantism\u2014Another term question\u2014Translations of the Bible\u2014How made\u2014Obstacles to Christianity\u2014Call for a State religion\u2014How to be supplied | 229 | \n| | | \n| INDEX | 266 |","title":"Confucianism and Its Rivals: Contents","type":"page"}