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Related issues were discussed by the author in 2006, and four years of further
reflection and research have propelled a reexamination of this subject, particularly
as regards Confucianism.
Considering the status of Confucianism in Tangut kingdom, we are sure that there
was no Confucian ideological growth in Xi-Xia that could increase its popularity
there, and that Confucian impact was fairly limited in terms of ideology. This stood in
sharp contrast to Buddhism, which dominated in scholarship and ideology in Xi-Xia.
By now, we are left only to consider Confucianism a means providing a kind of bureaucratized
political ideology for Xi-Xia and the relatively advanced Confucian
education in its mid and waning years...
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