Confucianism is about involvement with society by being morally righteous, following rituals, and adhering to a strict bureaucracy in which a harmonious existence could he pursued. Buddhism is about following the dharma, a set of teachings given by Buddha who reached enlightenment and realised that life is suffering. In order to overcome suffering, practitioners can either become monks or lay-buddhists by following the eightfold path, the three gems, and practicing compassion and non attachment through meditation and mindfulness. It encourages a minimalist approach to life, and also one of seclusion, and kindness. Taoism from the Tao Te Ching is mainly about embracing contradictions, using non-literary methods to connect with nature and the way of nature, to flow and to engage in effortless action. To be able to take action within inaction. To live in a state of harmonious paradoxes, it is not about creating anything or forcing anything, but about integrating and being in a natural state. It is introspective, and peaceful.
@@violenceisfun This is the original teaching of Tao, it was a pure philosophy, Morden Taoism as a religion already combined with massive amount of shamanism and Occult practice, even include alchemy, even the idea of the heavenly structure are not base on Buddhism nor Taoism, it is a form of Shamanism idea projecting our real word up on Heaven and down into the Hell, this is why it is often very confuse what were they actually practice . The reason Buddhism can solely stand alone, because it is a imported religion, not originated from China. Taoism and Shamanism are from a very similar ancient source, therefore, today's Taoism practice just like any other religion practice, they provide services for those who in need of spiritual and mental comfort, extremely far away from the original teaching of Tao. If you read Lu Ban Book or Book of Lu Ban, that is where all the mumble jumble spaghetti like Taoism graph came from, Lu Ban Book technically not a Tao book, but a Mo book (墨家書), later both Taoism and Shamanism adapted and use it into their religion practice. Say it more plainly, don't compare Morden day's religion practice with the ancient philosophical teaching.
@@eveleung8855 It's an american thing to think all religions were corrupted until 60's middle class intellectuals coopted them into feel good morality plays. I'm not influenced by protestantism so I don't believe this, sorry.
@@violenceisfun Any text can be corrupted over time, simply because of errors during transcribing, even more so if people are putting it to paper after long periods of oral traditions (books regularly get destroyed by fires or during warfare).
"Socialism with Chinese characteristics" has been altered and adapted to the extent that many of the more orthodox Marxists don't actually acknowledge China's form of socialism. Modern China continues to bring back Confucianist and Legalist-influenced thinking in new laws and policies, such as the Elderly Rights Law that passed in 2013. In a true socialist country, it would be the responsibility of the state and community to take care of their elders (social security) rather than their direct family. Modern China's interpretation of "rule of law" is also much closer to the Legalist definition.
Is there any doubt that they appear to us every generation as having "a real government" and a population without the bad effects of faith/religion which outside of China always exists, but for some reason, people like you still haven't found a reason to relax and be quiet rather than find the easiest way to give Chinese people an allergic reaction?
I’m a converted Buddhist and I have read the _Dào Dé Jīng_ . I swear I have never met two religions that are so compatible before. I like to think that Buddhism is a colourful painting with many shades and lights, while Taoism is an ink picture depicting the same ideas. Both promote peace and love, while also having vivid descriptions of the Nothingness we all come from and emphasize the idea of detachment and letting go. Daoism is like Buddhism, but without the Dharma part and all the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.
Daoism is very complex. Philosophical Daoism, i.e. books like the Dao De Jing will explain the physical universe while Buddhism will explain the cosmology. However once we get into religious Daoism and alchemy it becomes a bit difficult to connect the two. Daoism says you're recycled by the Dao with numerous spirits of different types. Buddhism says you're in the cycle of samsara and will reincarnate. This is primarily why I am a believer in Chinese Folk Religion as opposed to strict Daoism or Buddhism. It makes room for the spirit/soul that lives on in a spirit realm.
Being the latest religion to be officially recognized in Indonesia, I find the "three teachings as one" very fascinating because here in bali, i think the confucian religious community adapted it to ally themselves with the other 2 minority religions here which is hinduism & buddhism, and it's quite common to find confucian who also pray in buddhist temples or hindu shrines and vice versa.. in our confucian temple we'll sometimes see the word "tri-dharma" used for this phenomenon
Yes, the "Tri-Dharma" or RuShiDao temples phenomenon all across Indonesia is fascinating. It somehow incorporates the 3 teachings, but belongs under the Confucianism umbrella. They may have beneficial relationship with Hinduism, but I don't think Hinduism belongs to Tri-Dharma. They are the 3 mentioned in this video. Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, and Chinese descendant who doesn't neglect their ancestors' Chinese-Folk belief come to Tri-Dharma temples to pay respect to Confucius (Ru/Confucianism), Buddha & Guanyin (Shi/Buddhism), and Chinese Deities (Dao/Taoism). It's nice to know the good relationship between Confucianism, Buddhism & Hinduism in Bali; though specifically in Bali, Hinduism is the major religion.
Sebenarnya semua peradaban d Timur suka sinkretisme gini. India, Cina, Tibet, Jepang, Thailand, Vietnam banyak yg sinkretik. Cuma agama dari Asia Barat (Yahudi, Kristen, Islam) yg cenderung eksklusif.
I will never the forget the day we studied Taoism and spoke to this older man during a lecture and nothing is scarier and more comforting then the words he spoke to a class a 15-16 yr olds😂.. “do you remember what life like before you were born ?.. then why worry about about life will be like after “ “You are but the sand in the river of time and some grains might change the course but remember that the river will still flow “
A student starts with Confucianism because it is the only content of the official selection exam. After he enters middle age, he starts to realize sometimes Taoist effortlessness may not be wrong. When he reaches senior age, he repents his wrongdoings when he was a young cruel bureaucrat and leans to Buddhism.
@@sup1801 Christianity is a Jewish religion. It is not a "teaching" of Europe or "Western Civilisation" Prove that Christianity is a Jewish religion: It was founded/started by a Jewish person
One interesting thing about Chinese (or east Asian) Buddhism is their potrayal of the Boddhisatva Avalokitesvara. In South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet and Mongolia he is depicted as a male Deity, while in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Avalokitesvara is depicted as a female Goddess (Guanyin/Kannon/Kanzeon)
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is androgynous, just like other Bodhisattva and Buddha, they are beyond that. Avalokiteshvara is portrayed as female in East Asia for it encompasses a loving and ever-compassive mother. Portrayed in the north and Tibet as a male in part, because that is a "stronger, fiercer-looking way" in Mongolia and North of China Manjushri in general is widely more venerated as he is a warrior Bodhisattva, holds the sword. For Mongolians and Jurchen, Tibetan Buddism was perfect. As in general in Tibetan tradition there is the wrathful portrayal of these deities. Prior to Buddhism, these groups were animistic, not to mention that they were naturally-given warriors from the steppes. The portrayal is the least thing if compassion and awakening can be instructed. It can look like Guanshiyin Pusa, or like a wrathful deity drinking blood from a skull, does not matter.
SEA Chinese, we see them as genderless, it’s just a form the take on, if you look at the image or statute, you will notice there are no distinctive male or female traits.
There are numerous reasons for this. Guanyin is just one of the forms of Avalokitesvara, a rebirth into a female body. However some claim that Guanyin was the merging of multiple concepts in China, like the influence of Tara from Tibet. Regardless even Tara is complex because she's quite possibly the result of cultural memory or influences from India regarding Tara Devi (one of the mother Goddess forms). Interestingly in her golden form (yellow), the chant refers to the vedic name for Mother Earth (Privthi Mata) who is the consort in Proto-Indo-European religion to Dyeus P'ter (or essentially where Zeus and Jupiter come from, sky father). Sorry I went way off base, I love Guanyin and to be honest I think there may truly be a Guanyin. In my time of trouble Mother Guanyin comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Another fascinating video. Did not know the Catholics ones tried to incorporate the story of Buddha into their doctrine, but I have heard that there were some Buddhist Sects that tried to incorporate Jesus into their doctrine by equating him to a legendary teacher from the West.
Catholics did not incorporate buddha. The similarities are thin and an overreach of gossips. A man isolated his son from the world doesn't equal buddha.
I think the merge of the three schools is a result of people choosing to believe whichever teaching is convenient for them. Roughly, Confucianism covers the relationship between individual and society, taoism covers individual growth and spiritual perfection, and Buddhism deals with emotional suffering and after life. In most of the history, common people were free to choose whichever religion/philosophy to believe. So people just take out a bit from each of the religion (not exclusive to these three) and use them to their own advantage. For example, a rulers may often choose Confucianism to demand obedience from the people while consulting taoism for immortality and Buddhism to secure an incarnation. Although in general Chinese people would admit they believe in all three teachings, if you examine what they exactly believe, one shall find a spectrum of faith. Then this drives the merge of all three religions while ignoring they may not be completely compatible.
Other than the polytheistic nature, all these 3 beliefs/philosophy do share some form putting emphasis on being at peace with or understanding of the self and the living in the now. This could partially explain your amusing assessment of the current level of rivalry as fanfic competition.
Their share common main principle is to stop hostility and live in harmony. So they did not define their gods because other tribe or civilized may have their own gods and this will bring conflict and hostile. They propose philosophy not god to worship.
@@alexlo7708 I think the harmony thing is more Ruism/Confusionism than the other 2. Taoist and Buddhist basically accept change as the only constant in the universe. It is possible that it was due to either the human predisposition for order or the ruist family/traditional upbringing that by the large the layperson anchor to the balance aspect.
Confusion deals the relation between individuals and society, Buddhism deals the relation between individual and individual, Taoism deals the relation between individual and nature.
Eye opening video, I learned alot! It's interesting as it would explain how Chinese Buddhism came to be kind of culturally "messy" with additional stories like GuanYu etc and how in Taoist Temples has Buddha/bodhisattvas in it. Unfortunately these has caused quite a bit of dilution of their essences for most lay people, and its practiced ritually without much understanding (I live in South East Asia and see it around me), unless individuals really makes the effort to dig deep and go back to their core teachings.
Actually Chinese adapted the 3 teachings, but most do follow dogmas, dogmas are considered superstitious , being superstitious is not most Chinese want. We are followers and seldom superstitious or religious. Religion is complicated, we are not like some other religions we mind our own business
Watching this fews weird as a Chinese, cause I don’t separate Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism as separate religion. In fact Confucianism seems more like a social and cultural teaching. Daoism build on philosophical teachings, expands and absorb folk religion practice. Buddhism adopt Chinese culture and evolved. As they are so socially and culturally intermingled, it’s difficult for Chinese to identify his religion when asked. It’s so common to see temple that hosts Daoist, Buddhist, Hindus, and local religions’ deities.
Love your videos as always! I read an interesting take on why Taoist & Buddhist were "persecuted" under different rule and it's very a different concept from the Western concept of religious persecutions which emphasize on doctrine purity and believers vs pagan. Like you mentioned, the core motivation was always who's a threat to their rule, the mandate of heaven. Chinese believe in balance, and one group should be balanced by another, neither can be stronger nor weaker. A wise ruler thinks about how the group can be used and controlled as a means to rule, because when a religion gets powerful, rebels will form a cult and threaten the throne. Another major reason is that monks and 道士 are exempted from taxes and labor. The imperial court even issues certificates to monks and 道士. When times are hard, more people ran away and become/pretend to be monks so that they no longer need to pay taxes or serve as soldiers. And monasteries, both Buddhist and Taoist become a place where these people flock to, often bringing valuables along. From a government perspective, these people ran from their tax obligations and national duty, stealing with them the tax money that should have been in court coffers. The country loses money, loses food production and conscripts and that's unacceptable. So begins the shut down of monasteries, confiscating their riches gathered, and arresting people who become monk to avoid taxes. And the one true religion of a great emperor has always been, Politics. PS. Monkhood certificate is also a tool used inadvertently as government bonds throughout history. There's a demand of people buying these certs for tax and duty exemptions, and the gov can supply these certs for immediate cash, sacrificing future tax and productions. An economic win for both parties! Except when it's unregulated and used as a tool of corruption and brought down dynasties. --> cool idea for future episodes!
In other words, it's the human that adulterated spiritual teachings. Politics seems to be the main factor and priority for any religion development. Rather it's the common folks that is more pious.
this stuff is so interesting to me. the history of chinese religions and their interactions is so different than western religions, where christianity, judaism, and local polytheistic traditions were much more antagonistic towards each other, with jews being oppressed and polytheistic traditions only being preserved in the ways they influenced Christianity
Like the poster said, though, the three religions weren't always peaceful to each other. Their "peaceful coexistence" arguably came about because they did not threaten the position of Confucianism, and thus became subservient to it and incorporated. Buddhism went through four persecutions when it first entered China, after which Chinese Buddhism got altered and regulated to become more compatible with Chinese thinking. As for Taoism, it only became more "timid" after the imperial court of Han put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion (similar to the Taiping Rebellion but Taoist). That said, some Taoist sects continued to be highly fanatical up until the mid Ming period. Before then, they had contributed to the Red Turban Rebellion along with many other religious sects.
@@auburntiger6829 yeah i maybe worded it badly. it's just interesting that the equilibrium was one where the three religions each had their place, rather than one needing to be the only one left.
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl yeah but like religions dont get syncretized the same way? like people dont believe in both islam and christianity and yazidism, you know?
I remember visiting Crane Cry Mountain （鹤鸣山）when I was in Sichuan. My guide had to ask her grandfather about what it was and where it was. Sad that a foreigner knew more than she or her parents about the 5 Pecks of Rice School of Daoism (五斗米道).
The debate about the compatibility of christianity and confucianism was pretty significant. The Jesuits defended the compatibility while Dominicans were against. Back in the days the Dominicans won but over time the Jesuit position came to be acknowledged as more correct.
In the entertaining book "Te of Piglet" by Benjamin Hoff (who also wrote Tao of Pooh), it describe the scene where Confucius, Buddha and Lao Tze tasting the vinegar, Confucius has a sour look after tasting it reflecting his seriousness to life, Buddha has a bitter look, reflecting life is about suffering but Lao Tze is smiling as he reflect life should be enjoyed.
The Confucian-Daoist synthesis started in the Three Kingdoms period with Wang Bi and Guo Xiang and was completed in the Song Dynasty (a synthesis that also included Buddhism) by Zhu Xi. That’s the simple way to conceptualize it. As you say, Confucianism freely incorporated ideas from the other philosophies, and discarded their nonsense.
Taoism and Buddhism is in same level, its taught about universe and enlightenment. Confucianism is just talk about well being of human, no related with enlightenment.
No. Confucianism is the foundation of Taoism and Buddhism. Do you believe that one person with all bad manners could achieve enlightenment by reading some books?
@@cosmos69 Direct goto enlightenment study, bad manner automatically reduced in the initial. Purify the source from the beginning, then the manifestation and performance never go wrong.
"No Political Challenge" sounds like the American "separation of church and state" from the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. I think it is a very good thing. It tends to result in freedom of religion for the people.
It is not any reasons as there are proofs. The scholars of Nalanda and Vikramshila university defeated several Vedanta scholars, even one of them was teacher of adi Shankara. Buddhism declined in absence of political support and domination in India.
It makes you wonder what would have happened had Advaita Vedanta spread to China. Perhaps the Chinese would have have regarded it as yet another school of Buddhism. :)
My friend just walked in at 5:01 and shouted "Yo bro, is that a Nazi tattoo on Buddha's chest?". I"m dying laughing right now. Very educational video you got here. Great work!
It was a surprise to see you have been in Kaohsiung. Yeah is easy to get a bit cynical when you see the amount of money Fo Guang Shan get to build their huge monastery and museum/theme park and how it seems to be run as an business(at least at the surface). It doesn't help that their founder Hsing Yun is a polemical figure for getting involve in politics.
Fo Guang has deviated from the true essence of Buddhism like many other Mahayana Buddhist groups. Its establishment hinges on material desires which run counter to the Buddha's Dhamma.
Saying that the legend of the Buddha was adopted "by the Catholics" as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat is an overreach. Librarian here, worked years in a Catholic theology library, first time ever I heard of that story. Catholic church comprises many countries and cultures, different, rivals, even historical enemies. Those legendary saints were a thing in a specific place and time period. If they were a "Catholic" thing, my library would have had something about them more than one copy of the Golden Legend, which no one requested in the years I worked there. For the ones interested in the development of how that Buddhist story ended up in Catholic outskirts: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam_and_Josaphat
Religion for asians are complex, I identify as buddhist, pray to guanyin, pray to tian gong and other deities like in taoism and practice Confucius's values, so 3 in 1
Guess the Mongolians had the right idea. Religions kept arguing against each other are useless but also harmless… that and its minority rule over a majority Han population… you know, keep your subjects arguing so they don’t start a rebellion. On the brighter side, it is through the collision of ideas that truths (however limited they may be) come out.
It would have been a great, great blessing for humanity had the Tao masters/priests/scholars been able to mature the tradition, practices and philosophy over history. The basic concept of the Tao - that which can be spoken is not the eternal Tao - is very similar to a similar concept in the Vedas. The understanding of the universe as the manifestation of the Tao is probably the most beautiful spiritual tradition in the whole of human history.
Western concept of religion is completely different & alien to the East. The Eastern concept deals with more like philosophies or teachings which has been the case even in India & I think also in South East Asia. Very nicely made video on explaining the 3 main Chinese philosophies Buddhism, Confucianism & Taoism, definitely subscribing 😊👍. I hope these 3 keep dominating China instead of western ideas whether Christianity & Islam or Communism whose followers always oppose the existence of indigenous traditions. Communism under Mao's cultural revolution definitely caused a lot of harm but hopefully current leadership acts differently even though it seems not too likely.
11:37 Well well, except some,any Hindu I know don't consider Jesus as avatar of Vishnu. Buddha being Avatar of Vishnu is upto person, there is no specific sect. Nezha I believe looks like Hindu God Kartik to me. Like both almost 7 years old when they defeated bigshots. Both carry spears, both are associated with fire also.
Because unfortunately Mohism has faded into oblivion since Han dynasty. I guess that preaching about universal love and sacrificing yourselves for a great cause did not attract people at that time.
The Barlaam and Josaphat point is interesting. But the influence of the Saturnalia on Christmas is controversial at best, and most evidence points to no influence. Better examples of Christian cultural borrowings are priests' vestments taken from Roman jurist robes, and the "basilica" form of church being taken from Roman basilica style of building.
A Taoist, A Confucianist and A Buddhist, were have a meeting to discuss Enlightenment that is Wu Wei Oneness with the TAO.....Silence prevailed..... ☺️
If you were asked to pin down the essential, hard core of daoism in western terms, would you say that it is an ontology or epistemology? It seems like you can describe daoism as an ontological endeavor, but is it really a study of reality when it just takes "existence" as a given and spends more time generating knowledge about it and rearranging the knowledge to make them more meaningful to humans? It doesn't seem very concerned with "what existence" is or "whether something exists" like western ontology.
I think the west is really missing out on Liezi's book. Daodejing, Zhuangzi and Liezi are the three most important taoist "philosophy" books. If you can look at the line of thought in Zhuangzi and Liezi, the common pattern is about the understanding of what is useful or not useful (not good or evil), like how some porous tree is considered useless by the carpenter but useful for the tree itself because it prevents them from getting turned into lumber.
@@CoolHistoryBros A governance instruction manual perhaps? Though it included some Machiavelian content, which is quite unbearable if unprepared to read. Including 商君書，where it talks about Weaker the People, Stronger the State.
Did they mesh together well I think the best answer is yes and no while theres not much that conflicts between all of them and many people are more then happy to identify with all three there's also some significant differences in terms of what get emphasized and this can be a source of conflict.
Great video! I actually just wrote an essay about Barlaam and Josaphat. I would definitely like to see the video expanding more on the conflicts between Taoists and Buddhists. Would also be very cool to see videos about minority religions in China such as Moism, Bon, Tengrism (& its relationship with shamanic faiths), and Islam. Thanks for the great content!
The thing is that there are no Buddhist gods. Deities are not gods, the latter are involved in the wheel of Samsara. Thus, there is no opposition to the existence of gods. I think a more or less balanced example of this could be Jin Yong's works. I think it does tend towards criticizing Confucianism the most, however it both depicts people that in name could be Buddhist or Taoist, but that are evil. While perhaps his most beloved hero Yang Guo and his love Xiaolongnu could be a perfect example of Vajrayana achievements (with consort and all)
On the face: Confucious governs the social affairs, Taoism governs the natural affairs, Buddhism governs the spiritual affairs. In reality: Confucious is wasteful, complex, elaborate, sexist, and full of rather strictly customary expensive rituals. Taoism is simply too superstitious rather than advancing real science, it is also unappologetically super pragmatic. Buddhism is just too pacifist to be real, nobody in the Confucian family like to hear that their next generation wanted to pursue enlightenment and abandon all the family's worldy possessions like lucrative businesses. In practice: picture a dead relative, you blow money to give your loved one a grand Confucian proper funeral ceremony. In it, you invite a Taoist priest to "call the dead's spirit" and give the dead a chance to speak the words they didn't manage to say before dying. After that, you give them Buddhist prayer so they can reincarnate to the better realm. Welcome to East Asia, where Shintoism exist in syncretic relationship with Zen Buddhism, Mongolian Tengriism also somehow co-exist with Buddhism, and there is also Korean Jesus.
To be honest I find the synthesis of all three philosophies to not really exist. There is always one belief that is more dominant. In Vietnamese Society its usually folk religion in rituals, Buddhist in celebrations, and Confucian in family and social matters. Due to the importance of family, Confucianism always reigns supreme as the most dominant. With Chinese Taoism, I find is honestly nowhere to be seen except as a pop culture meme from a famous man who cheated on his wife and was notorious for being an abusive person aka Bruce Lee or as a philosophy known only by orientalist westerners through the Tao Te Ching, thanks to the likes of Alan Watts but not because of lived experience and exposure to cultural Taoism. Buddhism is suppressed in China, Tibetan Buddhists especially, but also other Mahayana sects. Falun Gong is banned. Only state versions of Buddhism is permitted. Monks in China live in monasteries, separated from the larger macrocosm of Chinese State Capitalism and Li Xingping thought, as long as they don’t criticise the government. Confucianism, although being about rituals and filial piety, it also can be used as an instrument by the state. You don’t hear Chinese people reflecting on the importance of non-attachment, and the eightfold path, but you may hear watered down sayings of pseudo-Buddhist ideas like “form is emptiness, emptiness is form”, but its not really Buddhism per say, its short cultural adages that people use to refer to anything from marriage to death. Mahayana Buddhism is all about compassion, and non-attachment. Obviously you have devotional aspects of Buddhism in Chinese culture. But they tend to blur religion into culture, and no longer are people left with a specific doctrine or belief system to follow. Its like people just take bits and pieces of everything, rather than actually having a sophisticated Buddhist lineage that permeates through the whole of society. Its not like Brahmins in India, who are in charge of many upper echelons, or The Pope in Catholicism. There’s no centralised Buddhism, other than the state sanctioned versions. And again, everything is subordinated to the state.
State Daoism, like state Buddhism, is basically co-opted by the PRC's Department of Religion, and as of 2016, put under the United Front department and hence under the Propaganda Department. Their leaders have to swear by the loyalty to the Party and Party doctrine before its traditional teachings. Buddhism is in a slightly better state due to its decentralized nature, but Daoism with its Holy See situated right in Beijing means that it's firmly in the grasp. The Celestial Master's court in Longhushan isn't any better.
"Monks in China live in monasteries, separated from the larger macrocosm of Chinese State Capitalism and Li Xingping thought, as long as they don’t criticise the government " Yes, Shaolin monastery was burnt down when it 'd started to engage political in Qing dynasty. Typically they'd survived thousand years long through many dynasties because their non political doctrine. Buddha never taught his apprentice to feel greed in political power. More over ,he himself as a crown prince had it relinquished and seek a practiceway to enlightment. If you enjoy religious accompany with political power , you can go to Catholic , Islam , Jew or Lama even those shaman or witchs such Merlin or else.
@@jts1702a Real Daoism has no Holy see. You're alien to it, so you cannot understand through. Then you're making a judgment by perception on your Christ ritual.
@@alexlo7708 I'm a Zhengyi Daoist, actually, and thank you very much. There is a central modern association known as the Daoist Association of China 中國道教協會 that registers and regulates all Daoists in the PRC, and numerous other competing organizations in the ROC and overseas of a similar nature. The "Holy See" is a poor translation because it is the closest thing you can describe the pontiff 祖廷 and central authority over Zhengyi Daoist from the Celestial Master's Court based in Longhushan, Jiangxi Prov.. Don't get me started with the issue of the 63rd Celestial Master onward because of the Straits divide...
I love it! One thing though, Chinese Folk Religion is distinct yet very much still alive. Daoism and Buddhism definitely borrow from it frequently and occasionally battle with it. For example, why burn joss money for spirits if they're only recycled back into the Dao? Why burn joss money for them if they're going to be reincarnated? Chinese Folk Religion just says, nah... we need to burn this joss smartphone, corvette, money and mansion so that our ancestors live on in the heaven realm living the good life. If they were bad then we can pay King Yan to let them out of hell.
budhist is emphasize of individuals escaping karmic forces.benfits of this will flow to some extent to the greater masses ,and cultures, adoptic aspects of it
I am a Roman Catholic who's been looking for a better politic then what we currently "enjoy" - in the United States or China. There are a couple of things in Confucius's philosophy that I don't agree with, but on the whole and at the core I think I would prefer it. (But perhaps not applied the way the Xin Emperor attempted. Weng Mang, wasn't it?)
Superstition is human nature. Even if Buddha isn’t a fan, many monks practice a lot of magic, some say black magic, in thailand and make big money from it. There was a major amulet craze when u could make millions if u r a skilled and quick collector. It was our proto crypto
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From now on, all religious rivalry will be settled by fanfiction competition!
I wholeheartedly agree
Agree.
Asgard v. Sun Wukong when?
Billions of people would be alive if this had been implemented. Billions more would have been entertained.
Thx, nice explanation
Confucianism is about involvement with society by being morally righteous, following rituals, and adhering to a strict bureaucracy in which a harmonious existence could he pursued.
Buddhism is about following the dharma, a set of teachings given by Buddha who reached enlightenment and realised that life is suffering. In order to overcome suffering, practitioners can either become monks or lay-buddhists by following the eightfold path, the three gems, and practicing compassion and non attachment through meditation and mindfulness. It encourages a minimalist approach to life, and also one of seclusion, and kindness.
Taoism from the Tao Te Ching is mainly about embracing contradictions, using non-literary methods to connect with nature and the way of nature, to flow and to engage in effortless action. To be able to take action within inaction. To live in a state of harmonious paradoxes, it is not about creating anything or forcing anything, but about integrating and being in a natural state. It is introspective, and peaceful.
Your said are the core philosophy of the 3 above.
That's the western new age interpretation of Taoism. Real Taoism is much different.
@@violenceisfun This is the original teaching of Tao, it was a pure philosophy, Morden Taoism as a religion already combined with massive amount of shamanism and Occult practice, even include alchemy, even the idea of the heavenly structure are not base on Buddhism nor Taoism, it is a form of Shamanism idea projecting our real word up on Heaven and down into the Hell, this is why it is often very confuse what were they actually practice .
The reason Buddhism can solely stand alone, because it is a imported religion, not originated from China. Taoism and Shamanism are from a very similar ancient source, therefore, today's Taoism practice just like any other religion practice, they provide services for those who in need of spiritual and mental comfort, extremely far away from the original teaching of Tao.
If you read Lu Ban Book or Book of Lu Ban, that is where all the mumble jumble spaghetti like Taoism graph came from, Lu Ban Book technically not a Tao book, but a Mo book (墨家書), later both Taoism and Shamanism adapted and use it into their religion practice. Say it more plainly, don't compare Morden day's religion practice with the ancient philosophical teaching.
@@eveleung8855 It's an american thing to think all religions were corrupted until 60's middle class intellectuals coopted them into feel good morality plays. I'm not influenced by protestantism so I don't believe this, sorry.
@@violenceisfun Any text can be corrupted over time, simply because of errors during transcribing, even more so if people are putting it to paper after long periods of oral traditions (books regularly get destroyed by fires or during warfare).
Ancient China mixed Confucianism Buddhism and Taoism together. Modern China mixing Communism, Socialism and Capitalism together.
"Socialism with Chinese characteristics" has been altered and adapted to the extent that many of the more orthodox Marxists don't actually acknowledge China's form of socialism. Modern China continues to bring back Confucianist and Legalist-influenced thinking in new laws and policies, such as the Elderly Rights Law that passed in 2013. In a true socialist country, it would be the responsibility of the state and community to take care of their elders (social security) rather than their direct family. Modern China's interpretation of "rule of law" is also much closer to the Legalist definition.
Modern China mixing Communism, Socialism, Capitalism together since 1911.
Is there any doubt that they appear to us every generation as having "a real government" and a population without the bad effects of faith/religion which outside of China always exists, but for some reason, people like you still haven't found a reason to relax and be quiet rather than find the easiest way to give Chinese people an allergic reaction?
@The Ming Warrior Based China
And Legalism too.
"If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices"
- Guo Xiang (郭象)
"Shit happens. Deal with it."
-Pei Wei (裴𬱟)
@@wisdomleader85 did that pei wei really said that? 😭 Genuinely asking
@@sunkijayloppaa3037 highly highly doubt it
I’m a converted Buddhist and I have read the _Dào Dé Jīng_ . I swear I have never met two religions that are so compatible before. I like to think that Buddhism is a colourful painting with many shades and lights, while Taoism is an ink picture depicting the same ideas. Both promote peace and love, while also having vivid descriptions of the Nothingness we all come from and emphasize the idea of detachment and letting go. Daoism is like Buddhism, but without the Dharma part and all the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.
Daoism is very complex. Philosophical Daoism, i.e. books like the Dao De Jing will explain the physical universe while Buddhism will explain the cosmology. However once we get into religious Daoism and alchemy it becomes a bit difficult to connect the two. Daoism says you're recycled by the Dao with numerous spirits of different types. Buddhism says you're in the cycle of samsara and will reincarnate.
This is primarily why I am a believer in Chinese Folk Religion as opposed to strict Daoism or Buddhism. It makes room for the spirit/soul that lives on in a spirit realm.
@@GoldenEmperor5Manifestany books you know of to read to learn more about the Chinese folk lore/spirit realm side of things?
Being the latest religion to be officially recognized in Indonesia, I find the "three teachings as one" very fascinating because here in bali, i think the confucian religious community adapted it to ally themselves with the other 2 minority religions here which is hinduism & buddhism, and it's quite common to find confucian who also pray in buddhist temples or hindu shrines and vice versa.. in our confucian temple we'll sometimes see the word "tri-dharma" used for this phenomenon
Yes, the "Tri-Dharma" or RuShiDao temples phenomenon all across Indonesia is fascinating. It somehow incorporates the 3 teachings, but belongs under the Confucianism umbrella. They may have beneficial relationship with Hinduism, but I don't think Hinduism belongs to Tri-Dharma. They are the 3 mentioned in this video.
Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, and Chinese descendant who doesn't neglect their ancestors' Chinese-Folk belief come to Tri-Dharma temples to pay respect to Confucius (Ru/Confucianism), Buddha & Guanyin (Shi/Buddhism), and Chinese Deities (Dao/Taoism).
It's nice to know the good relationship between Confucianism, Buddhism & Hinduism in Bali; though specifically in Bali, Hinduism is the major religion.
Confucianism is not a religion, it is a philosophical system.
both Buddhism and Taoism were also originally philosophical systems. @@flyingbirdskingcloud2908
Oh gitu ya kak❤ Indahnya toleransi
Sebenarnya semua peradaban d Timur suka sinkretisme gini. India, Cina, Tibet, Jepang, Thailand, Vietnam banyak yg sinkretik. Cuma agama dari Asia Barat (Yahudi, Kristen, Islam) yg cenderung eksklusif.
I will never the forget the day we studied Taoism and spoke to this older man during a lecture and nothing is scarier and more comforting then the words he spoke to a class a 15-16 yr olds😂..
“do you remember what life like before you were born ?.. then why worry about about life will be like after “
“You are but the sand in the river of time and some grains might change the course but remember that the river will still flow “
A student starts with Confucianism because it is the only content of the official selection exam. After he enters middle age, he starts to realize sometimes Taoist effortlessness may not be wrong.
When he reaches senior age, he repents his wrongdoings when he was a young cruel bureaucrat and leans to Buddhism.
Buddhism is an Indian concept (religion, ideology, lifestyle? thats debatable).
It's not a 'teaching' of Ancient China.
@@sup1801 you clearly missed the point of the video
@@sup1801 How is it a religion? You do not need to worship any Gods
@@sup1801 Christianity is a Jewish religion. It is not a "teaching" of Europe or "Western Civilisation"
Prove that Christianity is a Jewish religion: It was founded/started by a Jewish person
@@sup1801 Christianity doesn't originate in America but there is a form of Christianity that is uniquely American. Same for Buddhism in China.
Journey to West feels like a microcosm of the various competing ideas and religions. It's one of the reasons why I find it so interesting. 😄
The rivalry between them is natural, but how it played out is fascinating. It was mostly trolling, very little actual bloodshed. Truly astonishing
One interesting thing about Chinese (or east Asian) Buddhism is their potrayal of the Boddhisatva Avalokitesvara. In South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet and Mongolia he is depicted as a male Deity, while in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Avalokitesvara is depicted as a female Goddess (Guanyin/Kannon/Kanzeon)
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is androgynous, just like other Bodhisattva and Buddha, they are beyond that.
Avalokiteshvara is portrayed as female in East Asia for it encompasses a loving and ever-compassive mother. Portrayed in the north and Tibet as a male in part, because that is a "stronger, fiercer-looking way" in Mongolia and North of China Manjushri in general is widely more venerated as he is a warrior Bodhisattva, holds the sword.
For Mongolians and Jurchen, Tibetan Buddism was perfect. As in general in Tibetan tradition there is the wrathful portrayal of these deities. Prior to Buddhism, these groups were animistic, not to mention that they were naturally-given warriors from the steppes. The portrayal is the least thing if compassion and awakening can be instructed. It can look like Guanshiyin Pusa, or like a wrathful deity drinking blood from a skull, does not matter.
I remember a hard Times i have when i told my friend that guanyin could be a transgender
SEA Chinese, we see them as genderless, it’s just a form the take on, if you look at the image or statute, you will notice there are no distinctive male or female traits.
There are numerous reasons for this. Guanyin is just one of the forms of Avalokitesvara, a rebirth into a female body. However some claim that Guanyin was the merging of multiple concepts in China, like the influence of Tara from Tibet.
Regardless even Tara is complex because she's quite possibly the result of cultural memory or influences from India regarding Tara Devi (one of the mother Goddess forms).
Interestingly in her golden form (yellow), the chant refers to the vedic name for Mother Earth (Privthi Mata) who is the consort in Proto-Indo-European religion to Dyeus P'ter (or essentially where Zeus and Jupiter come from, sky father).
Sorry I went way off base, I love Guanyin and to be honest I think there may truly be a Guanyin. In my time of trouble Mother Guanyin comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Another fascinating video. Did not know the Catholics ones tried to incorporate the story of Buddha into their doctrine, but I have heard that there were some Buddhist Sects that tried to incorporate Jesus into their doctrine by equating him to a legendary teacher from the West.
मनमोहक
Catholics did not incorporate buddha. The similarities are thin and an overreach of gossips. A man isolated his son from the world doesn't equal buddha.
In Vietnam, this phenomenon is called Tam giáo đồng nguyên 三教同源, or in Caodaism, Tam giáo quy nguyên
"Laughing at the taoist essays"
holy explicit titles, Batman
I think the merge of the three schools is a result of people choosing to believe whichever teaching is convenient for them. Roughly, Confucianism covers the relationship between individual and society, taoism covers individual growth and spiritual perfection, and Buddhism deals with emotional suffering and after life. In most of the history, common people were free to choose whichever religion/philosophy to believe. So people just take out a bit from each of the religion (not exclusive to these three) and use them to their own advantage. For example, a rulers may often choose Confucianism to demand obedience from the people while consulting taoism for immortality and Buddhism to secure an incarnation. Although in general Chinese people would admit they believe in all three teachings, if you examine what they exactly believe, one shall find a spectrum of faith. Then this drives the merge of all three religions while ignoring they may not be completely compatible.
very well put
Not really, the synthesis was the result of great minds like Wang Bi and Zhu Xi. “Individuals choosing” is Western thought.
Other than the polytheistic nature, all these 3 beliefs/philosophy do share some form putting emphasis on being at peace with or understanding of the self and the living in the now. This could partially explain your amusing assessment of the current level of rivalry as fanfic competition.
Their share common main principle is to stop hostility and live in harmony. So they did not define their gods because other tribe or civilized may have their own gods and this will bring conflict and hostile. They propose philosophy not god to worship.
@@alexlo7708 I think the harmony thing is more Ruism/Confusionism than the other 2. Taoist and Buddhist basically accept change as the only constant in the universe. It is possible that it was due to either the human predisposition for order or the ruist family/traditional upbringing that by the large the layperson anchor to the balance aspect.
@@marcc1830 Had you seen change is normally in nature, you could have no feud. Then live in peaceful and harmony.
No, that is not a good characterization.
Watching Kublai Khan do that mustache twirling jolly laughter makes me hype for the eventual Yuan Dynasty video series
Confusion deals the relation between individuals and society, Buddhism deals the relation between individual and individual, Taoism deals the relation between individual and nature.
Well done, this is not wrong.
Eye opening video, I learned alot! It's interesting as it would explain how Chinese Buddhism came to be kind of culturally "messy" with additional stories like GuanYu etc and how in Taoist Temples has Buddha/bodhisattvas in it. Unfortunately these has caused quite a bit of dilution of their essences for most lay people, and its practiced ritually without much understanding (I live in South East Asia and see it around me), unless individuals really makes the effort to dig deep and go back to their core teachings.
Actually Chinese adapted the 3 teachings, but most do follow dogmas, dogmas are considered superstitious
, being superstitious is not most Chinese want. We are followers and seldom superstitious or religious. Religion is complicated, we are not like some other religions we mind our own business
I am a Taoist. Been one for a long time. Lived in Asia. Thank you.
Watching this fews weird as a Chinese, cause I don’t separate Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism as separate religion. In fact Confucianism seems more like a social and cultural teaching. Daoism build on philosophical teachings, expands and absorb folk religion practice. Buddhism adopt Chinese culture and evolved. As they are so socially and culturally intermingled, it’s difficult for Chinese to identify his religion when asked. It’s so common to see temple that hosts Daoist, Buddhist, Hindus, and local religions’ deities.
Love your videos as always!
I read an interesting take on why Taoist & Buddhist were "persecuted" under different rule and it's very a different concept from the Western concept of religious persecutions which emphasize on doctrine purity and believers vs pagan. Like you mentioned, the core motivation was always who's a threat to their rule, the mandate of heaven. Chinese believe in balance, and one group should be balanced by another, neither can be stronger nor weaker.
A wise ruler thinks about how the group can be used and controlled as a means to rule, because when a religion gets powerful, rebels will form a cult and threaten the throne.
Another major reason is that monks and 道士 are exempted from taxes and labor. The imperial court even issues certificates to monks and 道士. When times are hard, more people ran away and become/pretend to be monks so that they no longer need to pay taxes or serve as soldiers. And monasteries, both Buddhist and Taoist become a place where these people flock to, often bringing valuables along. From a government perspective, these people ran from their tax obligations and national duty, stealing with them the tax money that should have been in court coffers. The country loses money, loses food production and conscripts and that's unacceptable. So begins the shut down of monasteries, confiscating their riches gathered, and arresting people who become monk to avoid taxes.
And the one true religion of a great emperor has always been, Politics.
PS. Monkhood certificate is also a tool used inadvertently as government bonds throughout history. There's a demand of people buying these certs for tax and duty exemptions, and the gov can supply these certs for immediate cash, sacrificing future tax and productions. An economic win for both parties!
Except when it's unregulated and used as a tool of corruption and brought down dynasties. --> cool idea for future episodes!
Confucianism. Buddhism. Taoism. Long ago, the three teachings lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Christianity attacked
@@nyclee9133 Christianity didnt do shit. It was communism
@@nyclee9133 this made me laugh so hard😂😂😭😭
Shinto Japan
...and how does Wukong fit into this?
In other words, it's the human that adulterated spiritual teachings. Politics seems to be the main factor and priority for any religion development. Rather it's the common folks that is more pious.
I think they're built up from turmoil and clashing of the societies and some wisdom scholar tried to reasoning the cause.
@@alexlo7708 maybe. Thats why we should have a broader view of things.
@@nathanwatcheswhat are your thoughts on advaita vedanta?
this stuff is so interesting to me. the history of chinese religions and their interactions is so different than western religions, where christianity, judaism, and local polytheistic traditions were much more antagonistic towards each other, with jews being oppressed and polytheistic traditions only being preserved in the ways they influenced Christianity
Like the poster said, though, the three religions weren't always peaceful to each other. Their "peaceful coexistence" arguably came about because they did not threaten the position of Confucianism, and thus became subservient to it and incorporated. Buddhism went through four persecutions when it first entered China, after which Chinese Buddhism got altered and regulated to become more compatible with Chinese thinking. As for Taoism, it only became more "timid" after the imperial court of Han put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion (similar to the Taiping Rebellion but Taoist). That said, some Taoist sects continued to be highly fanatical up until the mid Ming period. Before then, they had contributed to the Red Turban Rebellion along with many other religious sects.
@@auburntiger6829 yeah i maybe worded it badly. it's just interesting that the equilibrium was one where the three religions each had their place, rather than one needing to be the only one left.
@@vivianadelatorre7267 that is not unusual here in the middle east you can find religious minoritys that are more than one thousand years old
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl yeah but like religions dont get syncretized the same way? like people dont believe in both islam and christianity and yazidism, you know?
中国虽然有三教，但指导大多数人生活方式的是儒教。
因为儒教纯粹理性，拒绝相信神和任何神秘力量。拒绝讨论天堂，以及死后的世界。
所以一些快死的老人和妇女希望得到心里安慰，会去拜一些道或者佛。
还有就是逃避社会的人会去信道教和佛教。因为儒家要求人不停奋斗直到死亡。
所以你会看到亚洲人不停的加班😂这是儒教的一种修炼方式。因为我们不相信天堂和来世。
I remember visiting Crane Cry Mountain （鹤鸣山）when I was in Sichuan. My guide had to ask her grandfather about what it was and where it was. Sad that a foreigner knew more than she or her parents about the 5 Pecks of Rice School of Daoism (五斗米道).
The debate about the compatibility of christianity and confucianism was pretty significant. The Jesuits defended the compatibility while Dominicans were against. Back in the days the Dominicans won but over time the Jesuit position came to be acknowledged as more correct.
In Korea 100% of people are Confucians, and 30% of them are Buddhists, so we know it is compatible (just not for monotheistic Westerners).
Favorite video so far! Can you make a similar version on Japan and how Buddhism and Shintoism coexisted(?)
Excellent digress of 3 of many pillars of Chinese ethos - Cheers & TQ for sharing 🌏
Thank you for this informative video sir, it helped me with my school research assignment
In the entertaining book "Te of Piglet" by Benjamin Hoff (who also wrote Tao of Pooh), it describe the scene where Confucius, Buddha and Lao Tze tasting the vinegar, Confucius has a sour look after tasting it reflecting his seriousness to life, Buddha has a bitter look, reflecting life is about suffering but Lao Tze is smiling as he reflect life should be enjoyed.
@Aurelio Fabricio Induni Ocampo alrite. There are alot of old artwork of them three staring at the bowl too
Lol
I now wonder if Xi has gotten around to banning the Tao of Pooh yet. Lol
@@johnweber4577 they basically sell Winnie the Pooh in China Disneyland.
Beautiful philosophies
The Confucian-Daoist synthesis started in the Three Kingdoms period with Wang Bi and Guo Xiang and was completed in the Song Dynasty (a synthesis that also included Buddhism) by Zhu Xi. That’s the simple way to conceptualize it. As you say, Confucianism freely incorporated ideas from the other philosophies, and discarded their nonsense.
Wow awesome summary and storytelling, thank you!
In China: Buddhism vs Confucianism vs Taoism
In the West: Christianity vs Neoplatonism vs Stoicism vs Epicureanism (Socratic Method Applied)
Except, in China these schools were synthesized.
Taoism and Buddhism is in same level, its taught about universe and enlightenment.
Confucianism is just talk about well being of human, no related with enlightenment.
No. Confucianism is the foundation of Taoism and Buddhism. Do you believe that one person with all bad manners could achieve enlightenment by reading some books?
@@cosmos69 Direct goto enlightenment study, bad manner automatically reduced in the initial.
Purify the source from the beginning, then the manifestation and performance never go wrong.
Confucianism is not in favor of the selfishness of “my personal enlightenment” of the Daoists and Buddhists.
I kinda like 👍 ur channel bcuz the ads come at the beginning but doesn’t interrupt the flow of the story in between. Wish other channels did this too.
Very precise. Congratulations on your good work. Though, I would not use the term 'gods' for Buddhism.
Thank you! That was a wonderful overview.
"No Political Challenge" sounds like the American "separation of church and state" from the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. I think it is a very good thing. It tends to result in freedom of religion for the people.
I didn 't know in ancient times, people' troll' too in the ridiculing of other religions through books, debates. Learn something. Thanks.
In India a guy Named sankaracharya destroyed Buddhism through advaita vedanta (non dualism or monism) and made it dissappeared.
It is not any reasons as there are proofs. The scholars of Nalanda and Vikramshila university defeated several Vedanta scholars, even one of them was teacher of adi Shankara.
Buddhism declined in absence of political support and domination in India.
@@jayantkamble6082 your proof?
Thank you so much. This is so valuable.
Think you could do a video on Yin Yang, the Five Phases, and some of these other ideas?
GREAT video!
It makes you wonder what would have happened had Advaita Vedanta spread to China. Perhaps the Chinese would have have regarded it as yet another school of Buddhism. :)
It can't be introduced into China, and the religions accepted by Chinese people are basically godless religions.😅
Is Taoism a godless/creatorless religion???
10:00 And THAT'S the reason why the Ming are my favourite dynasty of imperial China.
My friend just walked in at 5:01 and shouted "Yo bro, is that a Nazi tattoo on Buddha's chest?". I"m dying laughing right now. Very educational video you got here. Great work!
On one of the Buddhist statues there is a symbol that is associated with the Nazi-party is this a mistake or does it mean something else in Buddhism
The Sauwastika is an ancient symbol used by the Dharmic religions of India for thousands of years before it was used the by that Chaplin impersonator.
That symbol is an Aryan symbol and has been in Buddhism for millenia the Nazis used it as they considered themselves to be the "true Aryans".
Ok thanks for telling me that both of you
@@akimananikita5374 It give that symbol a bad name 😣
@@redschadow4887 thousands of year versus just and merely hundred of year. Just comparing a millimeter to mile long distance.
It was a surprise to see you have been in Kaohsiung. Yeah is easy to get a bit cynical when you see the amount of money Fo Guang Shan get to build their huge monastery and museum/theme park and how it seems to be run as an business(at least at the surface). It doesn't help that their founder Hsing Yun is a polemical figure for getting involve in politics.
Buddhist in Taiwan might have some being root from white lotus sect in ancient time.
Fo Guang has deviated from the true essence of Buddhism like many other Mahayana Buddhist groups. Its establishment hinges on material desires which run counter to the Buddha's Dhamma.
Avidly absorbed and gladly shared. Top end content and thanks for it.
Saying that the legend of the Buddha was adopted "by the Catholics" as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat is an overreach. Librarian here, worked years in a Catholic theology library, first time ever I heard of that story.
Catholic church comprises many countries and cultures, different, rivals, even historical enemies. Those legendary saints were a thing in a specific place and time period. If they were a "Catholic" thing, my library would have had something about them more than one copy of the Golden Legend, which no one requested in the years I worked there.
For the ones interested in the development of how that Buddhist story ended up in Catholic outskirts:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam_and_Josaphat
Great channel! I really appreciate your work, thanks!
Religion for asians are complex, I identify as buddhist, pray to guanyin, pray to tian gong and other deities like in taoism and practice Confucius's values, so 3 in 1
Very interesting
Guess the Mongolians had the right idea. Religions kept arguing against each other are useless but also harmless… that and its minority rule over a majority Han population… you know, keep your subjects arguing so they don’t start a rebellion. On the brighter side, it is through the collision of ideas that truths (however limited they may be) come out.
It would have been a great, great blessing for humanity had the Tao masters/priests/scholars been able to mature the tradition, practices and philosophy over history. The basic concept of the Tao - that which can be spoken is not the eternal Tao - is very similar to a similar concept in the Vedas.
The understanding of the universe as the manifestation of the Tao is probably the most beautiful spiritual tradition in the whole of human history.
道教思想是无为，遵守自然规则，人为干扰的越少越好。儒家思想是尊卑有序，个人安守社会等级制度，什么人做什么事。佛陀教我们啥子事情看开点，一切都是假象，寻找到你的内在。你就能登出游戏解脱了。
very informative thank you
All 'ism' teach peace and love for humanity. It's a choice and belief to practise. The serenity of mind for those who can follow the teachings well.
I think you will be sorely surprised when you encounter the countless "isms" that do not teach "peace and love for humanity" per your description.
@@ErikNilsen1337 - Yes, these countless "isms"
are attempts to control society and teach hatred.
Another amazing video! 😁
good video on the three
This was great!
Western concept of religion is completely different & alien to the East. The Eastern concept deals with more like philosophies or teachings which has been the case even in India & I think also in South East Asia. Very nicely made video on explaining the 3 main Chinese philosophies Buddhism, Confucianism & Taoism, definitely subscribing 😊👍. I hope these 3 keep dominating China instead of western ideas whether Christianity & Islam or Communism whose followers always oppose the existence of indigenous traditions. Communism under Mao's cultural revolution definitely caused a lot of harm but hopefully current leadership acts differently even though it seems not too likely.
I loved narrator's accent
11:37
Well well, except some,any Hindu I know don't consider Jesus as avatar of Vishnu.
Buddha being Avatar of Vishnu is upto person, there is no specific sect.
Nezha I believe looks like Hindu God Kartik to me. Like both almost 7 years old when they defeated bigshots. Both carry spears, both are associated with fire also.
Thanks bro your the best
The founders are religious people, but they did not create religion.
Their followers created religions, but are not religious.
True
实际上道教所追求的东西是自然界的规则。可以将他们理解为古代的物理学家。他们研究自然的规则并且学会适应这些规则。这也是道教为什么提出“无为”的原因，因为对于他们来说只要顺应规则就能成功。
我觉得你说的不对，首先道家和道教是两码事，道家追求的是自由，道教追求的是永生
@@李言-o4e道教追求永生我记得至少是14世纪明朝以后才有的记载吧，你是在哪里看到的文献我也查一下。道家和道教确实不同，毕竟一个是宗教一个是政治思想肯定不一样，就像是儒家和儒教是两回事一样
@@unien6781 道教怎么可以称为物理学家呢？道教的炼金术就是为皇帝炼制仙丹已求永生，道教还有房中术，而道家的自然根本不是物理的自然而是艺术哲学的自然
Why does everyone ignore Mohism? 😭
Because unfortunately Mohism has faded into oblivion since Han dynasty. I guess that preaching about universal love and sacrificing yourselves for a great cause did not attract people at that time.
Fortunately Moism lost two thousand years ago. Non-issue.
Great channel!
The Barlaam and Josaphat point is interesting. But the influence of the Saturnalia on Christmas is controversial at best, and most evidence points to no influence. Better examples of Christian cultural borrowings are priests' vestments taken from Roman jurist robes, and the "basilica" form of church being taken from Roman basilica style of building.
A Taoist, A Confucianist and A Buddhist, were have a meeting to discuss Enlightenment that is Wu Wei Oneness with the TAO.....Silence prevailed..... ☺️
The Chinese “syncretised” the 3 philosophies, not “synthesised”.
If you were asked to pin down the essential, hard core of daoism in western terms, would you say that it is an ontology or epistemology? It seems like you can describe daoism as an ontological endeavor, but is it really a study of reality when it just takes "existence" as a given and spends more time generating knowledge about it and rearranging the knowledge to make them more meaningful to humans? It doesn't seem very concerned with "what existence" is or "whether something exists" like western ontology.
I think the west is really missing out on Liezi's book. Daodejing, Zhuangzi and Liezi are the three most important taoist "philosophy" books. If you can look at the line of thought in Zhuangzi and Liezi, the common pattern is about the understanding of what is useful or not useful (not good or evil), like how some porous tree is considered useless by the carpenter but useful for the tree itself because it prevents them from getting turned into lumber.
@@CoolHistoryBros Guess I'll have to educate myself before asking more dumb questions!
Where are tou from?? What's with your accent ? I am just curious
I'm Daoist cuz I'm straight up chinese.
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Daoism hasn’t been a thing for a thousand years.
So Naruto, DBZ, and Street Fighter are different schools of Buddhist Confucian thought?
How about Legalism?
It's for the rulers and ministers. Peasants are not encouraged to know those.
@@CoolHistoryBros A governance instruction manual perhaps?
Though it included some Machiavelian content, which is quite unbearable if unprepared to read. Including 商君書，where it talks about Weaker the People, Stronger the State.
Interesting Video 👍
Did they mesh together well I think the best answer is yes and no while theres not much that conflicts between all of them and many people are more then happy to identify with all three there's also some significant differences in terms of what get emphasized and this can be a source of conflict.
Great video! I actually just wrote an essay about Barlaam and Josaphat.
I would definitely like to see the video expanding more on the conflicts between Taoists and Buddhists.
Would also be very cool to see videos about minority religions in China such as Moism, Bon, Tengrism (& its relationship with shamanic faiths), and Islam.
Thanks for the great content!
The thing is that there are no Buddhist gods. Deities are not gods, the latter are involved in the wheel of Samsara. Thus, there is no opposition to the existence of gods.
I think a more or less balanced example of this could be Jin Yong's works. I think it does tend towards criticizing Confucianism the most, however it both depicts people that in name could be Buddhist or Taoist, but that are evil. While perhaps his most beloved hero Yang Guo and his love Xiaolongnu could be a perfect example of Vajrayana achievements (with consort and all)
Thank you
On the face: Confucious governs the social affairs, Taoism governs the natural affairs, Buddhism governs the spiritual affairs.
In reality: Confucious is wasteful, complex, elaborate, sexist, and full of rather strictly customary expensive rituals. Taoism is simply too superstitious rather than advancing real science, it is also unappologetically super pragmatic. Buddhism is just too pacifist to be real, nobody in the Confucian family like to hear that their next generation wanted to pursue enlightenment and abandon all the family's worldy possessions like lucrative businesses.
In practice: picture a dead relative, you blow money to give your loved one a grand Confucian proper funeral ceremony. In it, you invite a Taoist priest to "call the dead's spirit" and give the dead a chance to speak the words they didn't manage to say before dying. After that, you give them Buddhist prayer so they can reincarnate to the better realm.
Welcome to East Asia, where Shintoism exist in syncretic relationship with Zen Buddhism, Mongolian Tengriism also somehow co-exist with Buddhism, and there is also Korean Jesus.
Are you Japanese?
実は、仏教のmatraやritualsでlucrative businessesをする中国人が沢山いる。。。
@@許阿明-h7csad to know this. Thought its everywhere
To be honest I find the synthesis of all three philosophies to not really exist. There is always one belief that is more dominant. In Vietnamese Society its usually folk religion in rituals, Buddhist in celebrations, and Confucian in family and social matters. Due to the importance of family, Confucianism always reigns supreme as the most dominant. With Chinese Taoism, I find is honestly nowhere to be seen except as a pop culture meme from a famous man who cheated on his wife and was notorious for being an abusive person aka Bruce Lee or as a philosophy known only by orientalist westerners through the Tao Te Ching, thanks to the likes of Alan Watts but not because of lived experience and exposure to cultural Taoism. Buddhism is suppressed in China, Tibetan Buddhists especially, but also other Mahayana sects. Falun Gong is banned. Only state versions of Buddhism is permitted. Monks in China live in monasteries, separated from the larger macrocosm of Chinese State Capitalism and Li Xingping thought, as long as they don’t criticise the government. Confucianism, although being about rituals and filial piety, it also can be used as an instrument by the state. You don’t hear Chinese people reflecting on the importance of non-attachment, and the eightfold path, but you may hear watered down sayings of pseudo-Buddhist ideas like “form is emptiness, emptiness is form”, but its not really Buddhism per say, its short cultural adages that people use to refer to anything from marriage to death. Mahayana Buddhism is all about compassion, and non-attachment. Obviously you have devotional aspects of Buddhism in Chinese culture. But they tend to blur religion into culture, and no longer are people left with a specific doctrine or belief system to follow. Its like people just take bits and pieces of everything, rather than actually having a sophisticated Buddhist lineage that permeates through the whole of society. Its not like Brahmins in India, who are in charge of many upper echelons, or The Pope in Catholicism. There’s no centralised Buddhism, other than the state sanctioned versions. And again, everything is subordinated to the state.
State Daoism, like state Buddhism, is basically co-opted by the PRC's Department of Religion, and as of 2016, put under the United Front department and hence under the Propaganda Department. Their leaders have to swear by the loyalty to the Party and Party doctrine before its traditional teachings. Buddhism is in a slightly better state due to its decentralized nature, but Daoism with its Holy See situated right in Beijing means that it's firmly in the grasp. The Celestial Master's court in Longhushan isn't any better.
"Monks in China live in monasteries, separated from the larger macrocosm of Chinese State Capitalism and Li Xingping thought, as long as they don’t criticise the government "
Yes, Shaolin monastery was burnt down when it 'd started to engage political in Qing dynasty. Typically they'd survived thousand years long through many dynasties because their non political doctrine.
Buddha never taught his apprentice to feel greed in political power. More over ,he himself as a crown prince had it relinquished and seek a practiceway to enlightment.
If you enjoy religious accompany with political power , you can go to Catholic , Islam , Jew or Lama even those shaman or witchs such Merlin or else.
@@jts1702a Real Daoism has no Holy see. You're alien to it, so you cannot understand through. Then you're making a judgment by perception on your Christ ritual.
@@alexlo7708 I'm a Zhengyi Daoist, actually, and thank you very much. There is a central modern association known as the Daoist Association of China 中國道教協會 that registers and regulates all Daoists in the PRC, and numerous other competing organizations in the ROC and overseas of a similar nature. The "Holy See" is a poor translation because it is the closest thing you can describe the pontiff 祖廷 and central authority over Zhengyi Daoist from the Celestial Master's Court based in Longhushan, Jiangxi Prov.. Don't get me started with the issue of the 63rd Celestial Master onward because of the Straits divide...
@@jts1702a So you and your sect. are not real perception in "Dao" way. Lao Tzu never regulated anything and left it to nature.
Mentally moving into eastern spirituality
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I love it! One thing though, Chinese Folk Religion is distinct yet very much still alive. Daoism and Buddhism definitely borrow from it frequently and occasionally battle with it.
For example, why burn joss money for spirits if they're only recycled back into the Dao? Why burn joss money for them if they're going to be reincarnated?
Chinese Folk Religion just says, nah... we need to burn this joss smartphone, corvette, money and mansion so that our ancestors live on in the heaven realm living the good life. If they were bad then we can pay King Yan to let them out of hell.
Dang, now I'm curious about Manichaeism. Some claim it to be the first global religion.
Today I learned: Quintin tried to convey the same precarious relationship between Taoism and Buddhism in KB2
I just got an ad for Raid.
Not Raid: Shadow Legends, Raid, the bug killing spray.
budhist is emphasize of individuals escaping karmic forces.benfits of this will flow to some extent to the greater masses ,and cultures, adoptic aspects of it
Yes Chinese worldwide use three teachings to guild the daily living and moral, Hinduism is similar we also pray to all Hindu Gods
We live in harmony with the known and unknown.
These philosophy's are the parents of zen or chan in china
I am a Roman Catholic who's been looking for a better politic then what we currently "enjoy" - in the United States or China.
There are a couple of things in Confucius's philosophy that I don't agree with, but on the whole and at the core I think I would prefer it. (But perhaps not applied the way the Xin Emperor attempted. Weng Mang, wasn't it?)
Could you consider a video on Guan Yu in life and then in legacy/legend? I find it interesting that hes worshiped.
The reason you find Daoism “nowhere to be seen,” is because it was synthesized with Confucianism (a synthesis which you say did not happen).
So basically Confucianism is like, 'lol, watch those peasants squabble'. lol
No.
Proud Taoist ❤️
Based shamanist Kirati.
Superstition is human nature. Even if Buddha isn’t a fan, many monks practice a lot of magic, some say black magic, in thailand and make big money from it. There was a major amulet craze when u could make millions if u r a skilled and quick collector. It was our proto crypto