Explore: Confucian Parables

composing a short Confucian parable on kingship entitled The Warning of the Flower King (화왕계/花王戒) for King Sinmun of Silla. This parable is either repeated

of the early Han dynasty's Records of the Grand Historian, those the Confucian archivists listed under the abstract school or family (Jia 家) of fa (Fajia)

roof/ridgepole', meaning 'without limit') originally referred to infinity. In Neo-Confucian cosmology, it came to mean the "primordial universe" prior to the "Supreme

use an original form of gōng'àn (Chinese: 公案) or parables to convey messages. His critiques of Confucian society and historical figures are humorous and

Fassin, humanism originated in the Christian tradition, particularly the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which empathy is universalized. Fassin has also

(Chinese: 善人道; pinyin: Shànréndào; lit. 'Way of the Virtuous Man') is a Confucian-Taoist religious movement in northeast China. Its name as a social body

that many early textual dates are uncertain. Hundun only occurs in one Confucian classic, the Zuo zhuan commentary to the Spring and Autumn Annals. Most

left out stories that expressed praise for the emperor or traditional Confucian values from their collections. Widely circulated stories of today may

Chinese: Zhì (智) represents wisdom as practical intelligence, central to Confucian ethics. Hebrew: Chokhmah (חָכְמָה) in the Hebrew Bible is linked to divine

populace, integrating with its native animism as well as Buddhist and Confucian institutions, temples, and ceremonies. The Taoist practice in Korea developed