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The 8 pages that link to Tian, each with the reason it gives.

• ConfucianismRelated: Tian grounds Confucian accounts of moral order beyond individual preference.

• Mandate of HeavenRelated: The Mandate derives its authority from Tian, whose approval legitimizes a ruler.

• Chinese philosophyRelated: Its changing meanings connect cosmology, political legitimacy, and ethical life.

• Dong ZhongshuRelated: Heaven supplied the moral authority against which emperors’ conduct could be judged.

• Chinese cosmologyRelated: Tian links the structure of the cosmos to authority and ethical conduct.

• Temple of HeavenRelated: The complex’s principal rites addressed Tian as the source of cosmic order.

• TianxiaRelated: Tianxia’s literal wording joins this source of order to the whole world.

• Jade EmperorRelated: The Jade Emperor's authority is situated within Chinese ideas of Heaven.