The“moral mind”refers to people’s awareness of moral principles. It is set incontrast to the“human heart,” andappears in classics such as the “Old Text” version of The Book of History, and Xunzi. Confucian scholars in the Song Dynastyattached great importance to both terms and made interpretations andexpositions about them. They believed that…
The Tong-Guang School of poetry, which first emerged during the reigns of the Tongzhi (1862-1874) and Guangxu (1875-1908) emperors of late Qing, continued to flourish in the early years of the Republic of China early in the 20th century. It was thus named by combining the initial characters of the two emperors’ reign titles. Chen Sanli (1852-1937),…
The term is a translation of the Sanskrit word pratītyasamutpāda. Yuan (缘) means conditions; qi (起) means origination. That is to say, all things, phenomena, and social activities arise out of the combinations of causes and conditions. They exist in the continuous relationship between causes and conditions. Thus all things originate, change, and…