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Taoism   /dˈaʊɪzəm/   Listen
Taoism

noun
1.
A Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism.
2.
Religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu.
3.
Popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic.  Synonym: Hsuan Chiao.
4.
Philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.  Synonym: Daoism.





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"Taoism" Quotes from Famous Books



... search for information in America I have had some singular experiences. I have made an examination of the many religions of the Americans, and they have been remarkably prolific in this respect. While we are satisfied with Taoism, Buddhism, but mostly with Confucianism, I have observed the following sects in America: Baptists of two kinds, Congregationalists, Methodists, Quakers of three kinds, Catholics, Unitarians, Universalists, Presbyterians, Swedenborgians, Spiritualists, Christian Scientists (healers), Episcopalians ...
— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous
... meant ancestor-worship. In every home was a little tablet with the names of the family's ancestors upon it, and every one in the house worshiped the spirits of those departed. With this was another religion called Taoism. This taught belief in wicked demons who lurked about people ready to do them some ill. Then, years and years before, some people from India had brought over their religion, Buddhism, which had become a system of idol-worship. These three ...
— The Black-Bearded Barbarian (George Leslie Mackay) • Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, AKA Marion Keith


Words linked to "Taoism" :   organized religion, philosophical theory, Taoist, Daoism, sect, religious belief, Hsuan Chiao, religious order, faith, Tao, religious sect, religion, philosophical doctrine


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