Taoist

Zhu's documentary film title is translated 'Young People Question Taoism', but the title can also be understood simply as 'young men ask the way.' It follows four young Taoist priests on a 600 kilometer pilgrimage from the White Cloud Temple in Beijing to the Taixugong Temple in Shandong, a journey that last 15 days.

They are believed to have adopted a vegetarian diet and carried out Taoist rituals in an effort to improve their health.

In 1980, Tung Wah Tong was registered as Tung Wah Buddhist Meditation Centre (Pusat Meditasi Buddhist Tung Wah), much to the displeasure of the temple's Taoist council members.

At the same time, government policy has encouraged faiths that it sees as more indigenized, for example by subsidizing Taoist music or folk religious pilgrimages.

There are approximately 5,500 religious groups in China, including seven national organizations which are Buddhist Association of China, Chinese Taoist Association, China Islamic Association, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, Bishops' Conference of Catholic Church in China, National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China, and China Christian Council.

Those are some wild ideas, said the Western, English-thinking mind back in the nineteenth century when the first Taoist and Zen texts started to cross the Pacific.

In ancient China, a revered Taoist sage named Zhuangzi told many parables.

After much fruitless fighting, they called in the Taoist sage as mediator.

His use of quotidian items such as old furniture and domestic appliances appears by turns indifferent and sentimental, but his works' real poetic power derives from their engagement with a core idea in Taoist philosophy--the dialectic between the individual and the world.

Exploring the connections between Western craniosacral therapy and Chi Kung, Taoist master Mantak Chia and craniosacral instructor Joyce Thom detail movement exercises, breathwork practices, self-massage techniques, and focused meditations from Taoist and other wisdom traditions to release and harmonize the flow of energy in the body and optimize our potential for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Bender argues, "While Taoism has the conception of an ideal, naturally harmonious society, its acceptance of the continued existence of a ruler as the locus of political change is hardly anarchistic in the Western sense, since it retains, albeit in improved form, ruler, rule, and the means of rule; the state." (2) If Taoist political philosophy is not strictly anarchistic, what then is it?

In Beijing, revellers are visiting traditional fairs held in parks, as well as Buddhist and Taoist temples offering song and dance performances as well as open-air markets selling handicrafts.

Life Pulse Message: Taoist Techniques for Enhanced Circulation and Detoxification is specific blend of Taoist and health considerations and provides a fully illustrated guide to Life Pulse Massage, a special technique that involves abdominal massage practices designed to improving blood flow to specific, targeted areas and promoting healing by detoxifying individual organs and body systems alike.

We readily acknowledge differences as well as similarities between Taoist and Maori perspectives, but the aim here is to explore how the resources of Taoism can be used in philosophical work from a Maori perspective, to offer something worthwhile in reconceptualising the nature and purposes of tertiary education.

Among the topics are Gunavarman and some of the earliest examples of ordination platforms (jietan) in China, Buddhist and Taoist claims on Zhongnan shan in medieval times, relic installation and territorial transformation in medieval Korea, Jiang Zhiqi and the Miaoshan legend as a case study of the roles played by laymen in constructing Buddhist sacred sites in medieval China, and some Jain reflections on art.