Confucianism

“…required the Jesuits to seek out what was common in the experience of two very different cultures, to locate lines of filiation. These lines were ultimately manufactured-not discovered…whose founder Ricci called “Confutious,” 3

Everything you think you know about Confucious?

Is a lie.

<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ep374/Analects_of_Confucius_%28Eno-2015%29.pdf">ound at Indiana University</a> about the so-called Analects of Confucious.

…thinkers encountered the teachings of Confucius through Jesuit missionaries

There it is, first came from the Jesuits. That’s Ricci right here in the late 1500’s early 1600’s.

…Confucius did not put into writing the principles of his philosophy; these were handed down only through his disciples. The Lunyu (Analects),

Nothing was put in writing. “handed down” means the Catholic invented Oral Tradition excuse.

The principles of Confucianism are contained in the nine ancient Chinese works handed down by Confucius and his followers

The title page illustration reproduces a leaf from a medieval hand copy of the Analects, dated 890 CE, recovered from an archaeological dig at Dunhuang, in the Western desert regions of China.

No complete copies of either the Lu version or the old text version of the Analects exist today,[13] though fragments of the old text version were discovered at Dunhuang. The Dingzhou Analects was damaged in a fire shortly after it was entombed in the Han dynasty. It was further damaged in an earthquake shortly after it was recovered 1976 and the surviving text is just under half the size of the received text of the Analects.

Confucianism

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