• Pu is a Chinese word meaning "unworked wood; inherent quality; simple" that was an early Daoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity, and relates...
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  • Look up PU, Pu, pu, or P U in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PU, Pu, or pu may refer to: Ummah Party (Indonesia) (Partai Ummat), a political party in...
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    to exist in the body. Hong Kong Taoist Association Yao Taoism Zhengyi Taoism Ten precepts Pu Taoist coin charm Zhizha Taoist diet Taoist music Taoist...
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    people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview, which is collectively termed as Chinese folk...
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  • Shen Buhai (redirect from Shen Pu-hai)
    p4–5. Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (September 15, 1982). What Is Taoism?: And Other...
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  • (Chinese: 三寶; pinyin: sānbǎo; Wade–Giles: san-pao) are basic virtues in Taoism. Although the Tao Te Ching originally used sanbao to mean "compassion",...
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    pinyin: fǎjiào, sometimes rendered as "Faism"), Folk Taoism (民間道教; Mínjiàn Dàojiào), or Red Taoism (mostly in east China and Taiwan), constitute a large...
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  • school') also known as Taology refers to the various philosophical currents of Taoism, a tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the...
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  • The Tao of Pooh (category Taoism in popular culture)
    The book is intended as an introduction to the Eastern belief system of Taoism for Westerners. It allegorically employs the fictional characters of A....
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  • misconduct. Broadly speaking, the precept against "sexual misconduct" in Taoism relates to extramarital sex. The term for a married couple (夫婦) usually...
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    spirits is common in popular Taoism. Banned during the Cultural Revolution (along with all other religions), religious Taoism is undergoing a major revival...
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    ancient oracle and bronze characters (e.g., 䍩) combine yáng (羊, "sheep) and (攵, "hit lightly; tap") denoting "shepherd; tend sheep". Shēng (生) means Live...
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    Fabrizio Pregadio (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Taoism. Routledge. p. 1051. Mollier, Christine (2009). Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic...
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    language and society. Many aspects of traditional Japanese culture such as Taoism, Buddhism, astronomy, language and food have been profoundly influenced...
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    name to Wang Zheng (王整) and pretending to be an ordinary soldier. Xian (Taoism) Zombie-Loan manga has an episode titled Shikai no Hō (尸解の㳒, The Corpse...
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    Mount Lao (category Taoism in China)
    significant due to its long affiliation with Taoism and is often regarded as one of the "cradles of Taoism". It is the highest coastal mountain in China...
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    Toki Pona (redirect from Pu (book))
    Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in sitelen pona. These three books are named pu, ku, and su respectively in Toki Pona. Toki Pona is an isolating language...
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    called "Folk Taoism" or (in southeast China) "Red Taoism", operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside any institution of official Taoism. The ritual...
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  • or even Confucianism, Taoism espouses a negative theology declaring the impossibility to define the Dao. The core text of Taoism, the Daodejing, opens...
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    Mount Hua (category Taoism in China)
    of Mount Hua within Confucianism. It is also seen as a sacred place in Taoism. As Ian Johnson wrote in an article exploring the search for Dao in China...
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  • of everything that exists. Taoism tends to emphasize virtues such as wu wei (effortless action), ziran (naturalness), pu (simplicity), and spontaneity...
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    Sun Bu'er (redirect from Sun Pu-Eh)
    Sun Bu'er (Sun Pu-erh, Chinese: 孫不二), one of the Taoist Seven Masters of Quanzhen, lived c. 1119–1182 C.E. in the Shandong province of China. She was a...
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    Hermit (section Taoism)
    "solitary". Other religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam (Sufism), and Taoism, afford examples of hermits in the form of adherents living an ascetic way...
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    Skin" (Chinese: 畫皮; pinyin: Huàpí) is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. Literary...
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  • pp. 4–5 Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C. Creel, What Is Taoism?, 94 Creel, 1974 p.4, 119 Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese...
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    Guanyin (redirect from Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa)
    celebrated. Guanyin has been appropriated by other religions, including Taoism and Chinese folk religion. Some Buddhists believe that when one of their...
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    Gods), as well as works from the Records of the Strange genre (for example Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and What the Master Would...
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    philosophy of duality of the individual self han and pu is quite similar to yin and yang of Taoism. The tradition was originated in Yunnan, China and followed...
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  • Western Zhou dynasty; What is Taoism? and Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History (University of Chicago Press, 1970) and Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political...
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    of human nature and of nature per se". When it comes to sensibility of Taoism, the moral import can be most found in ziran. Ziran has been interpreted...
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