| The interaction between Buddhism and Taoism gave rise to the Ch'an school of contemplative quietism which developed into Japanese Zen. |
| The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness. |
| The idea came from Buddhism rather than Confucianism, but for Confucians it implied no other-worldly quietism. |
| Whatever his technical limitations, however, Vrel's interiors are memorable intimist images of domestic quietism. |
| Independent political inactivity now went hand in hand with religious quietism and piety. |
| Faced with the classic choice of writing or living, he finds himself capable of neither, and ponders a retreat into literary quietism. |
