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A picture depicting the burning of written texts and the killing of priests by
the Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang Ti'nin.

Confucianism. Confucius himself had not left any written material be-
hind, but his followers published a collection of his teachings under the
name of “Great Knowledge and the Doctrine of the Middle Path” dur-
ing the Han dynasty.
During the reign of the Han dynasty Confucianism became the of-
ficial religion of China, and remained so for the next two thousand

years, during which it changed considerably. The emperor became al-
so the high priest known as the “Son of heaven” (Allah forbid). The

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