Under the Song dynasty, individuals selected as officials followed the teachings of:

A.

Buddha

B.

Genghis Khan

C.

Jesus

D.

Confucius

The correct answer is D) Confucius. Although philosophers and elected officials did infuse Buddhism with Confucian teachings, they created a sort of neo-Confucianism, which was a philosophy based completely on the teachings of Confucius. Even though they had Buddhist infusions within neo-Confucianism, people were often quite skeptical about Buddhist and Taoist (another Chinese religious tradition) teachings.