Returning to Nature

essay by Li Ao

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In Confucianism: Confucian ethics in the Daoist and Buddhist context
844) essay “Returning to Nature” that foreshadowed features of Song (960–1279) Confucian thought. The most-influential precursor of a Confucian revival, however, was Han Yu (768–824). He attacked Buddhism from the perspectives of social ethics and cultural identity and provoked interest in the question of what actually constitutes…
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