taoism in English

noun
1
a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century bc ), advocating humility and religious piety.
The roots of Japanese mythology are in the Shinto religion, in Taoism and in Zen Buddhism alike.

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1. My family practiced Taoism.

2. Immortality in Taoism, Ancestor Worship in Confucianism

3. 13 In fact, Taoism and Buddhism were mutually contradictory.

4. Bruce Lee (Lý Tiểu Long) is explaining an important concept of Taoism.

5. My parents’ religion was based on both Taoism and Buddhism.

6. Taoism was discredited on account of its magical and superstitious practices.

7. In China, for example, the three major religions are Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

8. 8 In its early stages, Taoism was more a philosophy than a religion.

9. Taoism in the Ming Dynasty, for its special historical background, demonstrated new features, secularization and commercialization.

10. The practice identifies with the Buddhist School (Fojia) but also draws on concepts and language found in Taoism and Confucianism.

11. 18 Taoism was founded by Lao-tzu, who is said to have lived in China in the sixth century B.C.E.

12. Advaita is an eclectic group of friends interested in meditation, yoga, enlightenment, self realization, non duality teachings (Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism).

13. 9 Actually, the spirit of being tipsy equals to the spirit of freedom, which makes Chinese Taoism close to the western bacchanal spirit.

14. 9 The culture of supernatural being and alchemist in Qin and Han Dynasties is an important cultural integrant being pregnant with early Taoism.

15. Elements of other religious practices, such as the veneration of folk heroes and ancestors, Confucianism, and Taoism mix with Chinese Buddhism are also practised.

16. This literary figure vividly interprets the evolution changing from necromancy to Taoism, and mainly shows the successive change from necromancer novels to Taoist novels.

17. In the Jin-Tang Dynasties, when Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism contended, conflicted and well blent , forming a state of mingled thoughts of the three sects.

18. The richer and more intact awareness of Judgement Day in Christianity cannot deny the fact that weak awareness of Judgement Day also exists in Taoism.

19. “Both Buddhism and Taoism,” says Professor Smart, “gave shape and substance to beliefs about an after-life which were rather sketchy in ancient Chinese ancestor-worship.”

20. "Bagua zhang" literally means "eight trigram palm," which refers to the canons of Taoism and specifically one of the trigrams of the I Ching (Yijing)

21. The dark dominate of the end of the Han Dynasty, the exclude of the ancient scholasticism, the lash of Taoism and Buddhism is the external cause of it's decline .

22. Since Southern-Northern Dynasties, the Diabolism has become synonymous for some heretic Taoists. Hand in hand with the development of Taoism, it still exists in the minds of a lot of people.

23. The focus of Taoism is on the individual within the natural realm rather than the individual within society; accordingly, the goal of life for each individual is seeking to adjust oneself and adapting to the rhythm of the natural (and the supernatural) world, to follow the Way (tao) of the universe, and to live in harmony.