... known as Nepal. The pleasures of the world soon palled upon him, and abandoning his home he retired to the forest, where as a hermit, he spent several years in austere self-discipline, studying the way of salvation as taught in the Upanishads. Even this did not bring peace to ... ung-fu-tze, which was later Latinized by early Jesuit missionaries into Confucius. Confucius was a real person, born in 551 B.C., in what was then the feudal state of Lu (which is now a part of the modern province of Shan-tung). His parents, while not wealthy, belonged to the superior class. His father ... all ...

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