Akihisa-kun, you don’t have to differentiate between the East side and India here. It will be easier to memorize what happen each year in each country directly.”
“Each country?”
“Yes. For example, around 500 BC, when Confucius, a great person was born, another famous person was born in India.” (note Confucius actually lived and was born in China.)
“Confucius…I think I heard of this name before…”
“Confucius was the one who started the ‘Confucianism’, and is a great who had great influence in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms you like, Akihisa-kun.”
“Ahh, speaking of which, I might have heard of that name in manga or video games.”
Is it the one who advocated wisdom and faith? I remember this name seemed to be always associated with ‘the Arts of Tsu’.
“When Confucius, the founder of Confucianism was born, the founders of Buddhism and Jainism were born at the same time.”
“The founder of Buddhism…is it Sakyamuni?”
“That’s right. He also has another name called Siddhattha Gautama.”
“But I don’t know about the founder of Jainism.”
“That one is harder. The founder’s name is called Mahavira.”
“Uu, never heard of that before.”
“They’re rather famous founders of religions in history. It’s best if you can memorize their names.”
“Fm fm.”
Gautama is Buddhism, Mahavira is Jainism.
“Don’t you find this interesting, Akihisa-kun?”
“Eh? What’s interesting about this?”
“It seemed that three of the great people that created religions in such a vast world full of history were all born in the same time.”
“Ah…that’s right. Speaking of which, it might be a coincidence.”
“Maybe, or maybe not. Perhaps the species called ‘humans’ would have similar thoughts after going through some time and started believing in gods.”
“That’s amazing…even if the places are different, people evolve at the same speed. Is that what you mean?”
“Yes, or…”
“Or?”
“Maybe a real god descended to this world back then, crossing through India and China before teaching them such knowledge.”
“Ooh, so that’s how it is! If I think about it, it can explain why several religions were created at the same time…and also romantic.”
“But nobody knew what actually happened.”
Himeji-san gave me a prompting cute smile. A real god has descended on this earth; the textbooks never wrote such things, but such an idea is really interesting.
“Akihisa-kun , do you know what you should answer in the bracket?”
“Un, got it. the founder of Confucianism is—‘Confusing’, right?”
“Yes, well answered.”
With Himeji-san guiding me, I filled in the blanks of the questions one by one. Unlike Yuuji, Himeji-san would often talk about some interesting stories. This will waste some time, but can create deep impressions, so it’s a lot better than just memorizing. Himeji-san probably had such interests in studying through this method. I can tell everyone’s personality from how they work.
