The translation process, including even the borrowing of Taoist terms (like wu wei, "non-action", for nirvana), contributed to a distinctly East Asian Buddhism.Being a "translating" religion is not the only way to go: some religions are stubbornly originalist in things linguistic.
Taoist robes, in contrast, were yellow.
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.
Cao Dai, ("High Tower," a Taoist epithet for the supreme god), syncretist modern Vietnamese religious movement with a strongly nationalist political character.
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.
His ideas on Taoist ritual were especially influential in the articulation of the common Taoist "fasting," or chia, rites and of the liturgies, or chiao, of communal renewal.
The old, old story: A brief history of anti-ageing products 210BC Fearing the advancing hand of death, Emperor Qin Shi Huang dispatched a Taoist by the name of Xu Fu, with a party of hundreds, in search of a mythical 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old elixir of life.
The work examined the relationship between the Confucian and Taoist traditions and Chinese scientific innovation and explored the differences between Chinese and Western philosophies of scientific inquiry.
The local peasants dug underneath a Taoist temple, and that's where they found the bronzes.
One afternoon, I started on the ground floor, with Yin Binyong, a friendly man of seventy-two whadhad the bushy eyebrows of a Taoist god.
He was a geomancer who could see "dragons" in the landscape, and he practiced Taoist alchemy.
