Closest Chinese: 鞠躬盡瘁 死而後已。生命不息，戰鬥不止。but still not the same

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• The main diff is the attitude to death. -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 12:29:47

• Any cultural lessons in there? :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 12:37:49

• In Chinese: Life stop at death. In eng, life does not stop -方外居士- ♂ (37 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 12:43:56

• At death -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 12:44:24

• That sounds only Marxian Chinese, a blip in history. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 13:09:24

• Marxian is part of western culture on different root from -方外居士- ♂ (24 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 13:52:03

• And with Buddhism, the Chinese started to believe in samsara -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 14:16:44

• samsara Is not the same as life does not stop at death -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 14:42:40

• It took 1000 yrs for Buddhism to be accepted by Chinese. And -方外居士- ♂ (736 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 14:46:53

• 1k years seems too short. Another 10k will fix it:) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 15:40:34

• You are absolutely right! -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2023 postreply 16:48:59