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THE ANALECTS ON DEATH - BLAKELEY - 2010 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy - Wiley Online Library

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Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. Share a link It has long been recognized that the Analects (Lunyu) does not contain teaching about death. Some attention is given to the development of a proper disposition toward dying and anticipated death. There are also a number of passages supporting traditional funerary and memorial practices for the death of others, especially filial relations. Teaching about the nature of death itself, however, cannot be found. Even the formidable contributor to the tradition, Zhu Xi (1130–1200), found this absence to be noteworthy.1 Only centuries later, as Confucian commentaries develop from the Song (960–1127; 1127–1279) through the Ming period (1368–1644) does one find efforts to elucidate a distinctive eschatology or thanatology. The challenge was to provide an account of death and post-death conditions, which was responsive to a competitive environment including Buddhist and Daois

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