Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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THE SHIH KING.
i. Immediately after the mention of the general collection in the Catalogue come the titles of two works of com
...mentary on the text of La. The former of The text of La. 1h
TEL 01 L. them was by a Shăn Phei of whom we have some account in the Literary Biographies of Han. He was a native of La, and had received his own knowledge of the odes from a scholar of Khi, called Fâu Khid-po. He was resorted to by many disciples, whom he taught to repeat the odes. When the first emperor of the Han dynasty was passing through La, Shăn followed him to the capital of that state, and had an interview with him. Subsequently the emperor Wa (B. C. 140 to 87), in the beginning of his reign, sent for him to court when he was more than eighty years old; and he appears to have survived a considerable number of years beyond that advanced age. The names of ten of his disciples are given, all of them men of eminence, and among them Khung An-kwo. Rather later, the most noted adherent of the school of LQ was Wei Hsien, who arrived at the dignity of prime minister (from B.C. 71 to 67), and published the Shih of LQ in Stanzas and Lines. Up and down in the Books of Han and Wei are to be found quotations of the odes, that must have been taken from the professors of the La recension; but neither the text nor the writings on it long survived. They are said to have perished during the Kin dynasty (A. D. 265 to 419). When the Catalogue of the Sui Library was made, none of them were existing.
ii. The Han Catalogue mentions five different works on the Shih of Khi. This text was from a Yüan Ka, a native
w of Khi, about whom we learn, from the same The text of Kht.
*. collection of Literary Biographies, that he was one of the great scholars of the court in the time of the emperor King (B.C. 156 to 141),-a favourite with him, and specially distinguished for his knowledge of the odes and his advocacy of orthodox Confucian doctrine. He died in the succeeding reign of Wa, more than ninety years old; and we are told that all the scholars of Khî who got a name in those days for their acquaintance with the Shih sprang from his school. Among his disciples was the well
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