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After Li Gonglin, Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety (Northern Song)
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A Collection of the Library · The Confucian Classics

The Great Learning

《大學》 The Great Learning — a short Confucian classic on illustrious virtue and the rectification of the self, state and world; the first of the Four Books.

Confucian canon · translated by James Legge

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The Great Learning · 大學 (Dàxué)

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ConfucianismChineseThe Confucian ClassicsConfuciusJames LeggeThe Great LearningScriptureClassicalClassical ChineseEnglishTextPhilosophyLibrary

《大學》— the first of the Four Books: the Confucian gateway from self-cultivation to the ordering of the state. The text is ascribed to Confucius, its commentary to his disciple Zengzi. Translated by James Legge.

Chinese The Confucian Classics Confucius James Legge The Great Learning Scripture Classical Classical Chinese English Text Philosophy

ConfucianismChineseThe Confucian ClassicsConfuciusJames LeggeThe Great LearningScriptureClassicalClassical ChineseEnglishTextPhilosophyLibrary

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