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Chinese Religion
Course: Chinese Philosophy (PHIL 434)
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University: Gonzaga University
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Chinese Religion:
-风水： Fengshui. Wind and Water. Geomancy: Earth Divination. Feng Shui has
to do with interior design, so that it is designed in a way that is in harmony
with the environment. You need a compass to do this properly, so you need to
know the cardinal directions. Trying to align with the environment around you
and pay attention to the elements, fire water, metal, earth, wood
- Must bury a person in a certain direction so they are not upset in the afterlife
- Feng Shui, lots of patterns in the universe that are not easy to understand. IF we just live
by these though , life will be good. We don’t have to believe in it persay, we just have to
do it
- Spirit Screen (In some restaurants and definitely in temples): Blocks bad spirits/energy
from entering
- Indian Religions: religions of liberation (escape from samsara)
- Chinese Religions: Religions of harmony ( fitting in with/adapting to the social world, the
natural world) Make yourself a piece of a larger puzzle. Building with Fengshui in mind
means that instead of building on a beach (susceptible to hurricanes) or on a mountain
(Landslides?) even though it might be beautiful
Three Doctrines/teachings of traditional china
- Confucianism, Daoism,( Indigenous to China) Buddhism(Indigenous to India). Temples
will have aspects of all three religions, so you don't have to pick and choose which one
to be apart of. This is applicable all across Asia
- Earliest evidence of religious ideas and practices come from graves burial for the dead
and veneration for ancestors. So lots of planning and effort put into burying the dead
Masoleum for the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty
- Modern Xi’An, discovered by a farmer accidentally. Kept a secret to ensure no
graverobbers would steal things. Started construction at the age of 13 and continued
through his lifetime. Each soldier has its own individual features. With this in relation to
Chinese religion, it basically means that in death you usually have what you had in life.
So if a king has an army, an army will go with him to his death.
- You have multiple spirits in your body and when you die, those spirits separate and one
soul (po) stays with your body in the corpse. So cleaning the grave, making offerings,
praying to ancestors is important because apart of the soul remains in the body even
after death.
- Yang is the light soul, when a person dies it floats and goes to either heaven or
underworld to be judges
