Taoist in a sentence

Sun Tzu viewed the ideal general as an enlightened Taoist master, which has led to The Art of War being considered a prime example of Taoist strategy.

Tao Master Eman, a priest from the First Taoist Foundation in Arcadia, California, performed a ritual on the riverbank as participants walked silently around the block where Chinatown and its temple stood nearly 150 years ago.

Wendy Wu’s four-day Gardens of the Bay tour includes the treasure trove that is Kampong Glam, Singapore’s Muslim district, one of Singapore’s oldest Buddhist-Taoist temples and the whimsical Gardens of the Bay.

ACT members will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Taoist Tai Chi Society with a mass demonstration on the Patrick White Lawns, beside the National Library, at 9am on Saturday, January 18.

FLK Taoist Tai Chi classes at 120 Cunningham Road are cancelled until the end of April.

The Taoist Yin/Yang, the oldest religious/philosophical icon states this explicitly.

Already in very early Taoist scriptures - like the Taiping Jing and the Baopuzi - alchemical formulas for achieving immortality were outlined.

Anarchism and Taoism Le Guin's feelings towards anarchism are closely tied to her Taoist beliefs and both ideas appear in her work.

As the "practical, political side" of Taoist philosophy, Arthur Waley translated them as "abstention from aggressive war and capital punishment", "absolute simplicity of living", and "refusal to assert active authority".

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect.

Certainly many entries of the Man'yōshū have a continental tone, earlier poems having Confucian or Taoist themes and later poems reflecting on Buddhist teachings.

Ch'ang Ming was adapted to the Western diet in 1930 by Chan Kam Lee a Taoist herbalist from Shandong in China.

Confucianism and Taoism Prophetic texts called the Ch'an-wei were written by Han Dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE) Taoist priests to legitimize as well as curb imperial power.

During the 18th century, the imperial library was constituted, but excluded virtually all Taoist books.

East Asia main Taoist Alchemists often use this alternate version of the Taijitu Whereas European alchemy eventually centered on the transmutation of base metals into noble metals, Chinese alchemy had a more obvious connection to medicine.

He died in 210 BC, while on a trip to the far eastern reaches of his empire in an attempt to procure an elixir of immortality from Taoist magicians, who claimed the elixir was stuck on an island guarded by a sea monster.

Historical origin From a modern historical perspective, when tracing t'ai chi ch'uan's formative influences to Taoist and Buddhist monasteries, there seems little more to go on than legendary tales.

However, this distinction is complicated by hermeneutic (interpretive) difficulties in the categorization of Taoist schools, sects and movements.

In 1956, the Chinese Taoist Association was formed, and received official approval in 1957.

In a similar way to Buddhism, Taoist schools sought throughout history to define what would be sexual misconduct.