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	Chinese philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Daoism is a complex movement in early China (see Daoist philosophy).
		Daoism, like Confucianism, becomes porous and eclectic as it enters the Han dynasty, and serves as a freewheeling counterpoint to the Confucian state ideology throughout the two millennia of Imperial China.
		The vocabulary of Daoism was also instrumental in transforming imported Mahāyāna Buddhism from an exotic religion into a source of spiritual growth with largely indigenous aspirations (see Buddhist philosophy, Chinese).
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/G001SECT5 (1210 words)

	DAOISM
		Daoism also believes that, among the famous mountains of the earth, there are 10 Big Daoist Caves,36 Small Daoist Caves and 72 Promised Lands, which serve as the abodes of immortals.
		China without Daoism would be a tree of which some of its deepest roots had perished.”What is worth mentioning here is that gunpowder, one of China's four great inventions, was actually invented by Daoists during their attempts to create elixirs.
		The emblem of Daoism is the Taiji symbol, or diagram of the cosmological scheme, comprised of a circle with an S-shaped line dividing the white (yang) and fl (yin) halves.
	www.taoist.org.cn /English/daoism.htm (1732 words)

	Daoism - ninemsn Encarta
		Daoism as now understood consists of two separate streams, a school of philosophical thought originating in the classical age of Zhou dynasty China, and a system of religious belief arising some 500 years later in the Han dynasty.
		Daoism survived the persecution of philosophies under the Legalist Qin dynasty, which had unified China, and Laozi's thought was taken up by courtiers of the Han dynasty, who combined it with legends of the primordial Yellow Emperor, Huang Di, and the yin/yang cosmology of the Tai Ji to enhance their philosophy of imperial government.
		Daoism was implicated in the greatest Chinese persecution of Buddhism in 842-845, by a Daoist emperor of the late Tang dynasty, but Daoist speculations also fused with Buddhist ideas to create the fusion of Zen Buddhism, which has been described as 90 per cent Daoist.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555647/Daoism.html (1223 words)

	Daoism
		Daoism is Chinese because it originates in Chinese culture and, in some sense, because it is most clearly understood through the Chinese language and views of being.
		Daoism is a "religion" because it involves an orientation towards and relationship with the sacred.
		Daoism is a "tradition" because it is a community of dedicated practitioners connected to each other as a historical and energetic continuum.
	www.daoistcenter.org /Daoism.html (546 words)

	Daoism - MSN Encarta
		Daoism developed, along with Confucianism, during the Warring States period of Chinese history, from the 5th to the 3rd centuries bc.
		Daoism gradually changed from the philosophy of a small number of sages to a widespread popular religion followed by numerous individual believers and by many groups of monks and lay people.
		However, it recognizes Daoism as a Chinese religion devoted to universal unity and peace, and it has repaired some Daoist temples and monasteries that had been closed or destroyed.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555647/Daoism.html (1193 words)

	Culture Atlas - Religion - Daoism - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Daoism began with the ancient philosopher Lao Tzu who said to have been born in China around 604 B.C.E. Legends state that Lao Tzu was leading an assuming life and worked as a keeper of archives in western China.
		Daoism has adopted basic aspects of life from Buddhism like the ideas of karma, rebirth, and hell; ethics, including precepts and monastic vows; and philosophical speculation, such as notions of emptiness and the logic of enlightened states.
		Daoism is an intuitive philosophy that emphasizes individualism, non-conformity and a return to nature.
	www.spotlightchina.com /religion/religion_daoism_history.html (502 words)

	FORE: Religion-Daoism-Introduction
		Daoism, as the indigenous religion of China, is profoundly ecological in its theoretical disposition, but in practice does not conform easily to Western notions of what this should entail.
		This is because Daoist cosmology forms a metaphysical framework by which to realize the transformation of the individual as a celestial being who is fully translucent to the cosmic environment in which she or he is situated.
		Daoism has particularly emphasized the importance of small beginnings and local perspectives not as an end in itself, but as a strategy.
	environment.harvard.edu /religion/religion/daoism/index.html (1430 words)

	Religion Universe: Taoism, TAOISM (DAOISM)
		Daoism has formed itself gradually over the ages, building upon the ancient Chinese worship of Heaven and Ancestors as its foundation, taking Daoist philosophy as its primary ideological source, absorbing concepts from the Yin-Yang, Mohist, Confucianist and Legalist schools, and adhering to the essential path of cultivation of the Magic and Immortality and Huang-Lao traditions.
		Daoism has also accumulated a large quantity of scriptures and documents, temples and monuments, and sculptures and stone inscriptions, adding to the cultural treasury of the Chinese people and making significant contributions to the progress of human civilization.
		In order to understand Daoism, it is necessary to understand the clear difference between religious and philosophical Daoism, as well as their intimate relationship.
	www.religion-religions.com /html/main_chapter.php?religion=Taoism (702 words)

	Glossary: Daoism (Taoism)
		The central teaching of Daoism is that one must live in intuitive harmony with the Dao.
		During the Han dynasty, "Laozi" was in either case deified and remains one of the most important deities in religious Daoism.
		When the Qing dynasty ended in 1911 the state support for Daoism also ended, and a great deal of the heritage surrounding the religion was destroyed during the years of warlordism that consumed the country of China.
	www.gotheborg.com /glossary/data/daoism.shtml (463 words)

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		Daoism (or Taoism) is a Chinese philosophical system that began around the 6th century B.C with the life and teachings of the founder of Daoism—Laozi (or Lao Tzu).
		According to Daoism the best life is the simple life of inactivity and attention to the basic needs of yourself and your family.
		Although Daoism is often identified as a religion it is more appropriately classified as a philosophy since it lacks many of the metaphysical elements of other religions.
	www.theologicalstudies.org /Daoism.html (429 words)

	Daoism Confucian
		The Chinese religious traditions of Daoism and Confucianism have been interwoven together in the souls of the people whose reverence for ancestors and striving for harmony with nature have been elevated by the ethics and ideals of them both.
		Daoism (Taoism), which was based on the teachings of Lao Zi (Laozi), was more of a Way to achieve personal enlightenment; while, the Confucian teachings of Kong Fuzi (Kongzi, Kong Zi, Venerable Master Kong, Virtuous Teacher Kong, Confucius), dealt more with ethics and education.
		The well balanced congruent integration of the three illustrious pathways of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in China has been confirmed by the recurrent presence of aligned groupings of sculptures of the three esteemed founding personages (Buddha, Kong Fuzi, Lao Zi) in many temples and rock carvings.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Daoism_Taoism_Daoist_Taoist_Confucianism_Confucian.htm (662 words)

	ARC - Faiths and ecology - Beginnings of Daoism
		Daoism can be traced back to Shamanism, which spread into Mongolia and China at least ten thousand years ago.
		Daoism was formally established as a religion under the East Han dynasty, about 2,000 years ago.
		Daoism is one of the five recognised religions of China — the other four are Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and Islam.
	www.arcworld.org /faiths.asp?pageID=11 (385 words)

	Daoist Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Daoism does not name a tradition constituted by a founding thinker, even though the common belief is that a teacher named Laozi founded the school and wrote its major work, called the Daodejing, also sometimes known as the Laozi.
		Indeed, there is a strong meditative trend in the Daoism of late imperial China known as the "inner alchemy" tradition and the views of the Neiye seem to be in the background of this movement.
		Daoism is filled with accounts designed to show that those who learn to live according to the according to the dao have long lives.
	www.iep.utm.edu /d/daoism.htm (7213 words)

	DAOISM
		Daoism is a collective term used for several branches of Chinese cultural tradition.
		Of this illustrious group Laozi is generally acknowledged as the founder of the philosophy of Daoism and, according to legend, he is the author of the Daode jing, the first text of Daoism.
		For Confucius, a peaceful and harmonious society was one in which people observed and followed the correct rituals and codes of interpersonal behaviour; it did not matter what the nature of the universe was.
	www.btinternet.com /~quanshu/quanshu/daoism.htm (223 words)

	Daoism: A Short Introduction
		The third phase of Daoism may be said to begin with the break-up of the Tang empire, and the increasing syncretism between Buddhism, elite Daoism and localized religious cults that have been documented from the Song period (960–1279) onwards.
		In this form of Daoism the sage is not viewed in socio-political terms as the ruler of a nation, but rather as someone who is utterly unperturbed by whatever might happen to him and apparently unconcerned with all the affairs of politics and business.
		Although Daoism had already a long tradition of eremitism in which individuals would leave their families (chujia) and devote themselves to a monastic life often in the mountains, Daoism had no formal monastic organization until Lu developed a set of precepts specifically for Daoist monks.
	www.oneworld-publications.com /samples/daoism.htm (5169 words)

	Daoism Confucian
		The Chinese religious traditions of Daoism and Confucianism have been interwoven together in the souls of the people whose reverence for ancestors and striving for harmony with nature have been elevated by the ethics and ideals of them both.
		Daoism (Taoism), which was based on the teachings of Lao Zi (Laozi), was more of a Way to achieve personal enlightenment; while, the Confucian teachings of Kong Fuzi (Kongzi, Kong Zi, Venerable Master Kong, Virtuous Teacher Kong, Confucius), dealt more with ethics and education.
		The well balanced congruent integration of the three illustrious pathways of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in China has been confirmed by the recurrent presence of aligned groupings of sculptures of the three esteemed founding personages (Buddha, Kong Fuzi, Lao Zi) in many temples and rock carvings.
	www.spiritsongs.org /Daoism_Taoism_Daoist_Taoist_Confucianism_Confucian.htm (662 words)

	Eric S. Nelson: Daoism, Heidegger and Ecology
		Daoism, as developed in its earliest works attributed to the figures of Laozi (Lao Tzu) and Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), calls us to heed our belongingness to what is inadequately conceived of as “nature” in the English language.
		Daoism also challenges the idea of a governing principle or archē, since this kind of wisdom or knowledge (zhi) is rejected as the growing absence of the Dao (Ddj 18-19).
		Thus, Daoism has been interpreted as a philosophy of wise sages, an aesthetic of poetic literati, a libertarian or libertine politics, a set of religious practices and institutions, and/or as a contradictory set of popular superstitions and occult techniques.
	faculty.uml.edu /enelson/DaoHeideggerEcology.html (4761 words)

	Tolerance.it
		Laozi is attributed with the compilation of one of the principal texts of philosophical Daoism, originally known as the Laozi, and later called the Daodejing.
		As an organized religion, Daoism is only documented from the 2nd century of the common era, even though the roots of religious Daoism are sunk in much older magical practices.
		The aim of philosophical Daoism is to reach a state of perfect harmony with the natural world, a state that may be attained by adapting oneself to nature through meditation and ecstasy, and by becoming one with the dao.
	www.tolerance.kataweb.it /eng/cap_due/uno/religioni/daoismo.html (895 words)

	Daoism - introducing the main ideas of Lao Zi and Chuang Zi
		Daoism - introducing the main ideas of Lao Zi and Chuang Zi The short article, Occult Universe, presents the basic patterns of belief current in China from the third millenium BC.
		Yet whereas Confucius expanded this book's social implications, Daoism elaborated on its metaphysical claim - to understand the invariable laws controlling the process of change in the universe.
		It is a philosophy, indigenous to China, that seeks to explain the origins and processes of the universe.
	www.imperialtours.net /daoism.htm (1166 words)

	Daoism - Spiritual Philosophy
		Daoism (Taoism) is being in the natural flow of existence.
		Daoism is seeking to be in that spot where the viewpoints merge to a more proper reflection of reality.
		An introduction to Daoism with a martial influence.
	home.pacbell.net /cnivens/daoism.html (1054 words)

	On Daoism: Text
		Daoism has a very large canon of writings (over 20 000) but there are some book universally recognized as "core texts".
		Daoism is often said to have started - as a recognizable entity - with the Dao De Jing by Lao Tzu.
		Daoism is a nameless point of view indigenous to Chinese and maybe in general Asian culture.
	www.plumpub.com /info/knotebook/daoB.htm (1448 words)

	Daoism/Taoism
		Daoism is a philosophy about the proper path in life.
		Daoism received a greater metaphysical twist in the hands of Zhuang Zi/Chuang Tzu (as noted before, the word zi/tzu is a respectful way of referring to someone.
		Zhuang Zi's greatest contribution to Daoism was this emphasis on self-transcendence and his relativistic description of everything in the world, including death.
	www.iun.edu /~hisdcl/h425/Daoism.htm (1288 words)

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