Word: taoism
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Tens of millions-perhaps hundreds of millions-of Chinese adhere to the ancient faiths of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, which are cultural as well as spiritual forces. Islam has been deeply entrenched for centuries. Though China has been a special preoccupation of U.S. and European missionaries since the late 19th century, less than 1% of China's 1 billion people are Christians today...
This synthesis of science and religion is taking place not only between science and Judaeo-Christian theology, but also between science and traditional Eastern cosmologies, such as Buddhism, Taoism and Shintoism. The greatest challenge now is to discover a unifying principle operating in both the material and spiritual domains...
...happens, he says, when people feel an intolerable injustice, but it is not required in the push for perfectability. Terrill does allow for the possibility that the Chinese will grow apathetic, making it easier for a rigid bureaucracy to take root--"the old combination of legalism from above and Taoism from below...
...carpentry and other skills for making "real" things; he cannot stand imitations, photographs, or the cinema. His tremendous reverence for language is evident in every speech, and he loves to seek word sources and double meanings. He has read Lao-tse and is something of an expert of Taoism; he loves Jewish drama and is an ardent Zionist...
...welcome awaits him. At the premiere of Dreams, the audience demanded 31 curtain calls. Critics raved about Yun's prodigious orchestral and vocal writing and his intuitive knack for fantasy. The first work, Dreams of Liu-tung, depicts the adventures of a frivolous student who is converted to Taoism when a magician conjures up four dreams that chillingly depict his fate. Butterfly Widow is a comedy about a high-court functionary, Chan-tse, who dreams each night that he is a beautiful giant butterfly. A philosopher tells Chan-tse that he was actually a butterfly in his former life...