Confucianism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Confucianism rises=== Philosophers in the [[Warring States period]], both focused on state-endorsed ritual and non-aligned to state ritual built upon Confucius's legacy, compiled in the ''[[Analects]]'', and formulated the classical metaphysics that became the lash of Confucianism. In accordance with Confucius, they identified mental tranquility as the state of ''Tian'', or {{zhl|l=the One|c=一|p=Yī}}, which in each individual is the Heaven-bestowed divine power to rule one's own life and the world. They also extended the theory, proposing the oneness of production and reabsorption into the cosmic source, and the possibility to understand and therefore reattain it through correct state of mind. This line of thought would have influenced all Chinese individual and collective-political mystical theories and practices thereafter.{{sfnb|Didier|2009|pp=xxxviii–xxxix, Vol. I}} In the Han dynasty, Confucians beginning with [[Dong Zhongshu]] synthesised Warring States Confucianism with ideas of [[yin and yang]], and ''[[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|wuxing]]'', as well as folk superstition and the prior schools that led up to the [[School of Naturalists]].<ref name=":10027">{{Cite book |title=World Religions: Eastern Traditions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=0-19-541521-3 |editor-last=Willard Gurdon Oxtoby |edition=2nd |location=Don Mills, Ontario |pages=169–170 |oclc=46661540}}</ref> In the [[460s]], Confucianism competed with [[Chinese Buddhism]] and "traditional Confucianism" was "a broad cosmology that was as much about personal ethics as about spiritual beliefs" and had roots that went back to Confucianist [[Philosophy|philosophers]] from over a thousand years before.<ref name=":032">{{Cite book |last=Frankopan |first=Peter |title=The Silk Roads: A New History of the World |date=March 2017 |publisher=[[Vintage Books]] |isbn=978-1-101-94633-6 |edition=First Vintage Books |location=New York |pages=32 |author-link=Peter Frankopan}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page