Tao Te Ching
Genghis Khan
1162 – 1227 CE
Genghis Khan (c. 1162 – 1227)
Maligned by history, feared by all, conqueror of more territory, people, and countries than anyone either before or since; Genghis Khan rises high on the scale of best-known historical symbols. Although a continually creative innovator who helped establish the modern world by promoting religious tolerance, international law, and the cross-fertilizing of multi-cultural medicine, science, trade and art; most historians and stories label him as barbarian, bloodthirsty, and cruel. Perhaps it was his extreme openness and tolerance that invited this projection. Coming into Europe and many countries during times of deep corruption, intolerance, and exploitation; his openness and tolerance became the real threat, deeper than his military might. His legacy shows that the real “barbarians” were the culturally chauvinistic, narrow-religion-trapped believers, and tradition-blinded people of his and our own time.
Lineages
Politicians Shamanistic Trickster
Eras
Chinese
5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)Southern Song (1127 – 1279 CE)
Jin dynasty (1115 – 1234 CE)
Western Xia 西夏 (1038 – 1227 CE)
Western Liao (1124 – 1218 CE)
Sources
Secret History of the Mongols, Монголын нууц товчоо, 元朝秘史
Quotes by Genghis Khan (9 quotes)
“If you can take your nation as your husband and serve him very carefully, you will earn your reputation.”
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“No friend is better than your own wise heart [...] no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.”
Chapters:
38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“It is necessary to accept hard and inconvenient advice, to punish bad people with merciless law, to protect the numerous subjects with kindness, to strive after a good name that is honored everywhere.”
from Secret History of the Mongols, Монголын нууц товчоо, 元朝秘史
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“It is necessary to accept hard and inconvenient advice, to punish bad people with merciless law, to protect the numerous subjects with kindness, to strive after a good name that is honored everywhere.”
from Secret History of the Mongols, Монголын нууц товчоо, 元朝秘史
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“She stretched them by the shoulders, pulled them by their necks up to the heights of other men. She did these things because she was a mother with a heart as bright as the sun and as wide as a lake.”
from Secret History of the Mongols, Монголын нууц товчоо, 元朝秘史
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“My wives, daughters-in-law, and daughters are as colorful and radiant as red fire. It is my sole purpose [...] to have all harmful brambles and thorns cleared from the roads and paths upon which they travel”
from Secret History of the Mongols, Монголын нууц товчоо, 元朝秘史
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