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...time it reached Confucian and Taoist China in the 1st century A.D., Buddhism had lost its austerity, and danced happily into the already crowded Chinese religious pantheon as a cheerful faith promising a flowering hereafter. The Chinese took it to Korea, and in the 6th century the Koreans took it to Japan, where in less than 50 years it became the state religion...
...head of the sect, Daya Mata is custodian and chief interpreter of Yogananda's teachings. Many of them are set down in a book of epigrammatic conversations with disciples, somewhat in the manner of the Confucian sayings. Sample: "Seek God for his own sake. The highest perception is to feel him as bliss, welling up from your infinite depths. Don't yearn for visions, spiritual phenomena, or thrilling experiences. The path to the divine is not a circus...
...imperial collection is representative of Chinese art as a whole, for the emperors had as their command the leading painters and artisans of the day. The examination system which supplied the government with its officials bred gentlemen well versed in Confucian classics, calligraphy and poetry as well as painting. The majority of Chinese paintings are the works of such Confucian gentlemen, most of whom worked in the court, though some retreated from the capital to paint in seclusion...
...Dinh Diem is no democrat by instinct; he remains aloof from the masses in the tradition of a mandarin who follows the ancient Confucian code of a divinely guided prince. "A sacred respect is due the person of the sovereign. He is the mediator between the people and heaven as he celebrates the national cult," he once wrote. A chain-smoking bachelor, he runs things his way, taking advice only from a few aides and his tight-knit family; his closest adviser is a brother who has an office in the palace. All departmental reports go to Diem's office...
Plumbing the Japanese mentality for the causes of young people's death wishes, Psychiatrist Takeyama argues: the Confucian precept of unquestioning obedience to elders and superiors was deliberately perverted by the Tokugawa Shogunate (which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868) to maintain a rigid caste system. Obedience is still drummed into modern Japanese youth. But, says Dr. Takeyama: "While it remains a basic influence in their unconscious makeup, it conflicts sharply with their conscious striving to behave in accordance with modern Western ways...