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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



... had been helping to divert the attention of the Chinese people from the simple worship of God and of the powers of nature. The philosophy associated with the name of Lao Tzu, who lived nobody knows when,—probably about B.C. 600—which is popularly known as Taoism, from Tao, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and unthinkable principle on which it is based, operated with Confucianism, though in an opposite direction, in dislimning the old faith while putting nothing satisfactory in its place. Confucianism, ...
— Religions of Ancient China • Herbert A. Giles


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


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