Word: taoist
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...Taoist Philosopher Lao-tse told the parable to his disciples...
...Year of the Dog the eleventh day of the eleventh month is an auspicious one for the offering of sacrifices; the twelfth day favors the digging of graves, the making of coffins, and the burial of the dead. On the night of Nov. 11, 36 black-robed Taoist priests gathered in the compound of Peiping's ancient and beautiful Paiyunkuan (White Cloud temple). They had come to sit in judgment, and to propitiate the Taoist gods...
...Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes from the Ch'ing Dynasty courts, 1644 to 1911, which variously seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator, Alan Priest, who directed the show, could safely write: "In design, in color, in texture, in execution and conception they are beyond anything else that human beings have ever devised...
...needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central...
...denominations is represented, ranging in size from one with 827 adherents to many which claim only one worshipper apiece. Among the latter group are to be found a good assortment of rare creeds and unusual cults. Right in our midst there are a proud and effulgent sun-worshipper, a Taoist, a Shintoist, a Calvinist of Science, a Swedenborgian, and representatives of the Covenant Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church...