Spirit priests and Taoist masters are usually men who study religious texts to learn their specialty. |
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The Taoist quest for longevity, begun in earlier times, persisted with research and experimentation in the consumption of cinnabar. |
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Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes. |
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Confucianism blamed Taoist philosophy of escapism, while Taoism responded by deeming Confucianism as escapist from one's true nature. |
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Connected to the Taoist tradition, followers honor the dead on this day, when the earth god is said to give absolution for the sins of the dead. |
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Doing qigong exercises, prana, or Taoist alchemy will cause your hands or other parts to grow hot. |
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T'ai chi ch'uan incorporates the Taoist principles expressed in the Tao-te Ching. |
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Kahler also discovered that the gatekeeper was using the mausoleum as a place for Taoist priests to hold their religious rites. |
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The double gourd was the attribute of the Taoist immortal Li Tieguai, the dispenser of magic medicines. |
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A Taoist religious ceremony was held at the crash site as monks chanted Buddhist sutras to summon the spirits of the victims. |
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The birthday of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, falls between late March and late April and is observed by visiting Taoist temples. |
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Even though most Hong Kong people are not Taoist, Taoism still offers one of the most popular funeral ceremony styles in the city. |
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In China as far back as 4000 BC, the Taoist religion revered beauty, and garden structures were natural and essential components. |
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He is supposed, like Fukurokuju, another of the seven with whom he is often confused, to have once lived on earth as a Chinese Taoist sage. |
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This assertion denies the history of Buddhist entry into Japan, in which Shinto gods were honored as bodhisattvas and Taoist and Confucian values were prized. |
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A Taoist Holyland for 1,600 years, Sanqing Nountain is known for its many grotesque rocks, waterfalls and lush primeval forest set in a sea of clouds and mist. |
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However, the real meaning of Taoist wu-wei is not quietism at all, but rather, activity in harmony with the ever-changing, ever-unchanging Way of all life. |
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This recurrent Taoist theme appears also as the foundation of Advaita, of Zen and all non-dual approaches. |
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He also wrote a famous commentary on the Tao-te ching and several important hagiographical accounts of Taoist immortals and adepts. |
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Tai chi is based on the Taoist belief that good health results from balanced chi, which is short for chibouk, a long-stemmed Turkish tobacco pipe. |
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In the secret Taoist teaching, we are taught to come back to the breathing of before our birth. |
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In this DVD we can learn from Wudang Qigong exercises, the Art of Taoist Alchemy, breathing techniques and energy absorption and self massage. |
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Mr. Xun Li: The propagation of Falun Gong is unprecedented in any of Chinese history, in the religious aspects of the Taoist or Buddhist schools. |
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However, he did remember some Taoist texts he had studied before he became a monk. |
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Taoist philosophy is based on the pre-existence of a homogeneous 'oneness' from which material power, the ch'i, arises. |
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Werner and Toma also meditate on the practice of wabi sabi, a Taoist train of thought focused on things imperfect and temporal, yet their music is neither of these things. |
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Tai-Chi is a concept evolved from the Taoist beliefs in ancient China. |
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On the set burial date, Taoist priests come to chant for the dead. |
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Now, of course, there are a number of poets, by no means uninfluential, who read Chinese and Japanese and who are philosophically Buddhist or Taoist or both. |
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Born in a village of poor fisherfolk and growing up illiterate, Hung Tung worked as officiant in a Taoist temple while doing odd jobs to maintain his family. |
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Some elements of Taoism may be traced to prehistoric folk religions in China that later coalesced into a Taoist tradition. |
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It is from this class of nobles that the first Taoist priests are believed to have emerged. |
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Yoshida Shintō, a school in Kyōto that emerged during the 15th century, inherited various aspects handed down from Watarai Shintō and also showed some Taoist influence. |
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The Taoist chi kung approach to breathing is distinctly different from many other eastern methods of breathing. |
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At the root of several Chinese sciences, the Taoist life philosophy is put into daily practice through the technique of Feng Shui, relatively popular today in the Occidental world and widely practised in the East. |
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Her purpose was primarily to consult the Ming editions of the Taoist Canon preserved at the French National Museum in connection with her research project on hagiographic illustrations in the Ming Taoist Canon. |
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So once again in the Taoist Philosophy: the lower fireplace. |
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After all, one does not believe in the effects of feng shui and acupuncture without eventually recognizing the chi, that mysterious force ancient Taoist priests saw flowing through the universe. |
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The great Taoist, Lao Tzu, wrote that the pineal is the gateway center between Heaven and Earth, and if we concentrate on this center we can realize the oneness of all things. |
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All I could remember were some Taoist texts. |
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A benignant Taoist detachment may underlie his temerity. |
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The majority of the Chinese population would refuse to give blood, an indicator of the power of traditional representations of blood stemming from Confucian or Taoist conceptions of the body. |
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In Coloane Village, the Taoist god Tam Kong is also honoured on the same day. |
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There are many Buddhist and Taoist temples in the city serving the Chinese Filipino community. |
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Jia describes Shen Buhai's Shu as a particular method of applying the Tao, or virtue, bringing together Confucian and Taoist discourses. |
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In this legend, Laozi is the perfect Daoist master and Yinxi is the ideal Taoist student. |
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Taoist myths state that Laozi was conceived when his mother gazed upon a falling star. |
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Philosopher Roderick Long, however, argues that libertarian themes in Taoist thought are actually borrowed from earlier Confucian writers. |
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Early Taoist movements developed their own institution in contrast to shamanism, but absorbed basic shamanic elements. |
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The rulers were counseled by the Taoist clergy that a strong ruler was virtually invisible. |
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Several Song emperors, most notably Huizong, were active in promoting Taoism, collecting Taoist texts and publishing editions of the Daozang. |
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It flourished during the 13th and 14th century and during the Yuan dynasty became the largest and most important Taoist school in Northern China. |
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During the 18th century, the imperial library was constituted, but excluded virtually all Taoist books. |
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The government regulates its activities through the Chinese Taoist Association. |
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Taoist philosophy, in accordance with the I Ching, proposes that the universe works harmoniously according to its own ways. |
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Taoist orders usually present the Three Pure Ones at the top of the pantheon of deities, visualizing the hierarchy emanating from the Tao. |
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The Tao Te Ching or Daodejing is widely considered the most influential Taoist text. |
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More recently as recorded in the 18th century, the Taoist master Liu Yiming continued to advocate this usage. |
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One can see this symbol as a decorative element on Taoist organization flags and logos, temple floors, or stitched into clerical robes. |
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In general though, Chinese Taoist architecture lacks universal features that distinguish it from other structures. |
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Most Chinese people and many others have been influenced in some way by Taoist traditions. |
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Since the creation of the People's Republic of China, its government has encouraged a revival of Taoist traditions in codified settings. |
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Taoist literature and art has influenced the cultures of Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. |
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Throughout Chinese history there have been many examples of art being influenced by Taoist thought. |
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Taoist arts represents the diverse regions, dialects, and time spans that are commonly associated with Taoism. |
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Ancient Taoist art was commissioned by the aristocracy, however scholars masters and adepts also directly engaged in the art themselves. |
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Representatives of early Chinese Buddhism, like Sengzhao and Tao Sheng, knew and were deeply influenced by the Taoist keystone texts. |
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Lao Tsu, who is said to have written the famous Taoist text, the 'Tao Te Ching', repeatedly says that 'one should act as though one is not acting. |
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In later mature Taoist tradition, Laozi came to be seen as a personification of the Tao. |
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One need only think of various Eastern pantheisms in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions or of the Western pantheisms associated with negative theology. |
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If a mourner is either Taoist or Buddhist they may hold a burning joss stick while bowing. A family member will usually be kneeling nearby to burn joss sticks and paper money. |
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Since 1980, many Taoist monasteries and temples have been reopened or rebuilt, both belonging to the Zhengyi or Quanzhen schools, and clergy ordination has been resumed. |
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Taoist medicine very much follows the maxim of first do no harm. |
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At the conference, the Taoist claim was officially refuted, and Kublai forcibly converted 237 Daoist temples to Buddhism and destroyed all copies of the Daoist texts. |
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Wicca's duotheism has been compared to the Taoist system of yin and yang. |
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Belief in the revelation of the Tao from the divine Laozi resulted in the formation of the Way of the Celestial Master, the first organized religious Taoist sect. |
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A characteristic method aiming for longevity is Taoist alchemy. |
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There are also Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities. |
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And while Kegels are great exercises, the concept is at least a thousand years older, and the original Taoist version using Jade Eggs has some real advantages. |
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