Now the school of thought that we have here up at top, Buddhism is interesting because it did not emerge from that Hundred Schools of Thought period that we get at the end of the Zhou Dynasty. Buddhism emerges in India at around the same time, roughly 2,500 years ago with the teachings of Buddha, a Hindu prince who lived in northeast India, southern Nepal, and his teachings are, in some ways you could almost view as a reformation of Hinduism at the time, a return to the idea that someone, through meditation, through realization, can become one with, at least in Buddhism, the emptiness, nirvana, can escape from clinging to desires of this non-reality that we think we live in. Now we've talked about in previous videos how the Qin Dynasty was really based on this legalist philosophy. But the Han Dynasty is considered the Golden Age of China. Now under the Han Dynasty, Confucianism really took hold and became the dominant philosophical structure of China, and to some degree would stay that way. Now at the end of the Han Dynasty, China goes into a chaotic period for several hundred years until we get to the sixth century when the Sui Dynasty is able to finally reunify China for the most part. And in that interim, Confucianism starts to give way to some degree to both Taoism and Buddhism, these things that are more focused on the spiritual, areas where Confucianism was not as interested.