Confucianism

Author: Raja Abdulrahim Source: The Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-warren21-2008dec21,0,700… Fresh from being tapped to deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, Orange County Pastor...

Author: Errol P. Mendes Source: The Ottawa Citizen http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=3bfefab7… The spectacular opening show (despite the lip-synching) at the Beijing Olympics featured the great...

Author: Chris Buckley Source: Reuters http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32846920080404 China officially marked the traditional Qingming Festival of ancestor worship on Friday in a revival of Confucian ways that some scholars hope will...

Author: Staff Writer Source: AFP http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCUfWhWripEBid_Gbru2QMMXHE1g China plans a city-sized monument celebrating traditional Chinese culture and centred on the birthplace of the philosopher Confucius, state media said Sunday...

Author: Jill McGivering Source: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7169814.stm As soon as they walk into the tiny school, a converted apartment in a tower block, the children are bundled into grey cotton wraparound robes, fastened at the...

Author: Zhou Yan Source: Xinhua http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/05/content_6201289.htm CHANGCHUN, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The smoke from the burning joss sticks is all but suffocating at this Confucian Temple in Changchun as crowds of students flock...

Source: The Financial Express/The Economist http://www.financialexpress.com/print.php?content_id=165110 “Study the past”, Confucius said, “if you would define the future.” Now he himself has become the object of that study. Confucius was revered—indeed...

Author: Craig Simons Source: The Austin American-Statesman http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/05/23/23chinav… YINCHUAN, China — Zhang Xianliang is an unlikely advocate for remembering the past. Branded an enemy of the...

Source: Taipei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/05/01/2003359001 With her clear, rapid-fire lectures, Yu Dan (于丹) has become an instant television celebrity, hawking the moral teachings of a 2,500-year-old philosopher to an...

Source: Asia News http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9071&size=A For years now, China’s government has been rehabilitating the figure of the great philosopher as a cultural ‘bridge’ to the rest of the world but also as a mentor justifying obedience...