Confucius and Buddha
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Confucius and Buddha
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Abstract
Two near contemporaries, Confucius (ca. 551–ca. 479 BCE) and the Buddha (ca. 563–ca. 483 BCE), had an influence over Asian civilizations for millennia. Both of their lives—especially that of the Buddha—are shrouded in legend, and for this reason biographical claims are unreliable. The Buddha, or “Enlightened One,” is a title rather than a name. The person so designated was named Siddhartha Gautama, or Shakyamuni.
Contents
- Unit 1:: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
- Human History before the Domestication of Plants and Animals
- East-West Axis and the Spread of Food Production
- Domestication and Human Diseases
- Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent - Review
- Unit 2:: Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations in the Ancient Near East
- Sumerian Culture
- Temple Complexes, Religious Ritual, and the Order of Nature
- City-states and Their Gods
- Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations in the Ancient Near East - Review
- Unit 3:: Earliest Civilizations of Africa
- Carthage
- Nubia
- Egypt
- Earliest Civilizations of Africa - Review
- Unit 4:: India
- Indus Valley Civilization
- The Maurya Empire
- Vedas and Indian Religion
- India - Review
- Unit 5:: China
- The Influence of China on Japan and Korea
- The Qin Empire
- Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
- China - Review
- Unit 6:: Revolutions in Human Thought
- Greek Philosophy
- Confucius and Buddha
- The Jewish Prophets
- Revolutions in Human Thought - Review
- Unit 7:: Earliest Civilizations of the Americas
- The Aztec
- The Inca
- The Olmec and Maya
- Earliest Civilizations of the Americas - Review
- Unit 8:: The Greeks
- Hellenistic Age
- Golden Age of Greece
- Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
- The Greeks - Review
- Unit 9:: The Romans
- The Fall of Rome
- The Roman Republic
- The Roman Empire
- The Romans - Review
- Unit 10:: The Rise of Christianity
- Christianity and the Roman Empire
- The Structure of the Christian Church
- Jesus
- The Rise of Christianity - Review
- Unit 11:: European Peoples
- Benedictine Monks and the Conversion of the European Peoples
- The Vikings
- Cultures of the People
- European Peoples - Review
- Unit 12:: Ascendancy of the East
- Expansion of Muslim Culture
- The Rise of Islam
- The Byzantine Empire
- Ascendancy of the East - Review
- Unit 13:: The Formation of Western Christendom
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Corruption and Renewal in the Church
- The Crusades
- The Formation of Western Christendom - Review
- Unit 14:: The Medieval Age
- Medieval Church and State
- Europeans and Mongols
- Reason and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
- The Medieval Age - Review
- Unit 15:: The Renaissance
- Renaissance Art and Science
- Church Corruption
- The Great Plague
- The Renaissance - Review