1. B.C.E. C.E. 400 200 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 Sui Tang Song Yuan
Reunify
Grand Canal
Mongol
Dynasty
Sui
Tang
Song
Yuan
Ming
Han
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600
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1000
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Tribute System
Neo-Confucianism
6 Ministries & Censorate
Foot Binding
Golden Age of arts
Pop. growth

2. Sui reunification

3. It’s a foreign barbarian religion!
Buddhism in China?
It’s anti-family and anti-work!
It’s a foreign barbarian religion!
It’s selfish!

4. Great Buddha Hall of Nanchan
When the Han Dynasty collapsed, Confucianism was discredited. Buddhism (and Daoism) offered a more spiritual/comforting alternative.
Xumi Pagoda
Lingxiao Pagoda
Wooden Bodhisattva
Leshan Giant Buddha
Leshan Giant Buddha

5. A wooden bodhisattva of the Song dynasty.
Buddhist decline:
Growing resentment against foreign culture (and An Lushan rebellion)
Old criticisms of Buddhism
Monks sent home
Buddhist property confiscated
Forbidden to use
gold, silver, copper,
iron, gems in images

6. Neo-Confucianism:
Blended in spiritual ideas (Buddhism & Daoism)
This world is real. Also a spiritual world.
Goal is to transcend the real world and join with the Supreme Ultimate
This is done by self-cultivation
I’m back…

7. Foot Binding Began between the ages of 4 and 7
Involved the tight wrapping of young girls’ feet
Broke the bones and caused intense pain
Goal = to make the feet small and delicate
Sign of female beauty
Kept the women at home
Began with just elite women, but soon became a common practice with all classes

11. Chinese culture forcibly spread to Korea & Vietnam
Japan sent missions to China to learn Chinese culture.
Adopted:
Imperial system
Tax system
Law codes
Province system
City-structure
Confucianism
Buddhism

12. Shinto Japan’s original religion - connects them to their past
Belief in kami (gods, spirits, etc)
Ideas of purity
Shrines
Will assimilate Buddhism and Confucianism to their culture.

13. Feudal Japan Mikado Shoguns Daimyos = local lords Samurai = warriors
Emperor
Very little power; figurehead
Generals and powerful lords
Most political and military power
Mikado
Shoguns
Always fighting each other
Daimyos = local lords
Owned estates
Had private armies
Code of Bushido = samurai code of honor
Seppuku = ritualistic suicide  belly-slashing
Samurai = warriors
Loose-fitting armor
Fought with swords AND on horseback with bows & arrows
Peasants  worked on the land; paid heavy taxes; received protection in return

14. Samurai followed Bushido, the way of the warrior.

15. And now an excerpt from this book.
The excerpt is part of the introduction to a writing.

16. Ichijo Kaneyoshi ( )
A descendant of the powerful Fujiwara clan…Kaneyoshi served as regent, a post he soon resigned, and was twice the chief adviser to the emperor. An expert in Shinto and Buddhism as well as Confucianism, he ultimately retired into Buddhist orders.
The admonitions translated here were written for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinao (r ). In accord with the religious temper of his time, Ichijo weaves concepts of authority, power and responsibility into a prayer to Hachiman, the Shinto god of war envisioned as a Buddhist protector of Confucian justice.

17. He tends to apply Buddhist values such as honesty and universality to modify the mental restrictions ordinarily imposed on attitudes by clannish customs and hierarchical organization, as advice to a ruler, the ideas of clarity and compassion are devoted to facilitating good government.

18. Olympics 2020 will be in Tokyo, Japan.
This is the promo video that was aired during the final night of the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, Brazil.