Presentation Outline:
China's Spiritual Genius:
The first selection is for the whole presentation.
It is followed below by selectable subsections of the talk.
1. Missing opening explanation:
2. Meditation:
Three principles of China's three religions applied to two natural disasters.
4. The Neo-lithic period:
Contacting heaven through oracles.
5. The Bronze Age:
Chi and I Ching.
6. The Chang Dynasty:
The Yellow Emperor and the Mandate of Heaven.
7. Confucius:
Confucius' Analects, the Jade Emperor and the Great Wall.
8. Disunity:
Han dynasty, Taoism, Pureland Buddhism and a Christian influence?
9. New Influences:
Christianity and Islam enter China, Neo-Confucianism, Mogolian rule by Kublai Kahn and printed money.
10. Modern Times:
The Last Emperor, Boxer Rebellion, Falung Gong and liberalisation.
11. Ox Herding Story:
A story from China's Chan tradition, in which Zen is rooted: