| Besides these Confucian ideals, my father also practiced a Daoist lifestyle, based on the teachings of Lao Tzu. |
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| A Daoist tradition in China holds that the source of immortality, or at least long life, is the cinnamon tree in the moon, a tree that no amount of chopping can fell. |
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| They also utilized Confucian moral and social philosophy to politicize Daoist thought. |
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| The former was an adventure-loving carouser, the latter a lavish patron of Daoist alchemists. |
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| Other illustrative materials were in close relation to the earliest esoteric Daoist literature. |
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| Dr. Baldrian studied under the Sinologist Max Kaltenmark and was especially interested in Daoist alchemy. |
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| As such, Daoist ethical ideals are anchored in a non-empirical, idealized view of nature. |
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| Zhuangzi marks the high point of mature Daoist philosophical theory as he finds a better way to answer later Mohist challenges than did Hui Shi. |
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| For example, they believe in Daoist Wenchang deity, they celebrate Han festivities like the Spring Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. |
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| He is to be named associate researcher by this institute and to mark the occasion will give a lecture on the first Daoist icons. |
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| Section Three takes up what has been represented as a long shared history of Daoism and medicine in the works of three great Daoist physicians. |
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| The Changle inscription also mentions that the Daoist priest Yang Yichu begged to erect the respective stele. |
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| There were many women in the Tang era who gained access to religious authority by taking vows as Daoist priestesses. |
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| The painting is a reflection of the Daoist metaphysics in which chaos and reality are complementary stages of the regular course of nature. |
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| The Daoist settlements of sages, in forests and mountain glades as well as in the cities, are, at best, analogous to the eremitic type of proto-monasticism. |
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| The ancient Daoist medical classics make it clear that the moment we misdirect the intention and the will from the goal of raising consciousness and developing the spirit we begin seeding the roots of illness and suffering. |
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| Definitions that emphasize unitive ideologies are able to include Daoism but exempt shamanism from consideration, even though many Daoist visions are variants of shamanic soul flights. |
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| In this legend, Laozi is the perfect Daoist master and Yinxi is the ideal Taoist student. |
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| When Daoist settlements were cenobitic or celibate, these features were indeed incidental to Daoism, which defies and rejects rules of any corporate kind. |
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| Ancestor veneration and the Daoist rituals of consulting almanacs, geomancy, horoscopes and spirit mediums are seasoned with ethnic flavour. |
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| See the section Important Daoist Concepts. |
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| The remarks offered here take nonaction as central to the Daoist view of life, recognizing that the concept of wuwei does not only initiate a critique of value but also points to a higher mode of knowledge, action, and being. |
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| The story of Laozi occupies a cherished place in the Daoist tradition. |
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| It is being published jointly by the EFEO Hong Kong Center, which is hosted by the CUHK Institute for Chinese Studies, and the CUHK Center for Studies in Daoist Culture. |
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| Once a stalk falls out, the worshipper takes it to a side room where a Daoist Priest exchanges it for an appropriate reading to the silent question the worshipper has asked. |
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| The classics say the main purpose in training Taiji is to achieve longevity, which in the Daoist teaching means immortality or the ability to survive after death in your diamond body. |
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| Whatever the truth of the name, it was acquired in the ninth century after some remarkable phenomenon led to the unearthing of a box which contained a seal on which ancient characters with a Daoist message were carved. |
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| Together with mantra we explore the root causes of illness according to the ancient Daoist, Indian and Tibetan medical classics, so that we do not confuse the symptoms for the cause of illness. |
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| Haiyun also introduced Kublai to the formerly Daoist and now Buddhist monk, Liu Bingzhong. |
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| Many professions were hereditary: bannermen, brewers, dyers, doctors, navigators, and Daoist priests usually passed on their occupations to at least one son in each generation. |
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| Under Zhang's advice, Daoist temples were put under the Academy of Scholarly Worthies. |
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| This is considered an exemplary interaction between Daoist master and disciple, reflecting the testing a seeker must undergo before being accepted. |
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| Genghis Khan arranged for the Chinese Daoist master Qiu Chuji to visit him in Afghanistan and put him in charge of all religious affairs in the empire. |
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| A postlude argues for the continuing relevance of Daoist anarchism. |
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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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