Message from mfraser

[Anonymous]

Just finished watching the webinar of Richard Smith discussing comparative confucianism but also giving an excellent background to confucianism and now I am anxious to purchase his book: The I Ching; A biography by Richard Smith from Amazon. He went over the terms: Shangdi (Lord on High), Tian (Heaven), Tianming (Mandate of Heaven) and Dao (The Way - Nature) and how they changed in the Late Zhou Dynasty and later. Richard Smith discussed the Four Books; Analects, Mencius, Great Learning, and the Doctrine of Meaning and discussed the disciples of Confucius as well as going into comparing Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese interpretations of confucian thought and practice. There was some difficulty with receiving questions and they believed there were very few. My question was not received. I am interested in finding a film that presents the 24 Paragons to children. I know they would find it very interesting! He mentioned that the Japanese combined the 24 paragons with Kabuki Theater! Thank you to Clay for alerting us to this fascinating webinar.