Comparative Study on the Spatial Layout of Buddhist and Taoist Temples in Chengdu by Yunzhang Li, Jingya Li, Xi Liu

“…Buddhism and Taoism have enjoyed a flourishing development in Chengdu with many famous Buddhist and Taoist temples. …”
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Empresses, religious practice and the imperial image in Ming China: the ordination scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) by Luk, Y, Luk Yu Ping

“…<p>The <em>Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang</em> (1493) in the San Diego Museum of Art, a highlight at the <em>Taoism and the Arts of China</em> exhibition in 2000, is an unusual object among surviving visual material from Ming dynasty China (1368 – 1644). …”

Die spel van assosiasies in en om 'Die verlossing van die beeld' van Breyten Breytenbach by P.A. du Toit

“…The reader ventures on a search for traces, intertextual links within the Breytenbach oeuvre and for already acknowledged influences such as Surrealism (which in turn casts some light on the strange title of the story) and the Eastern philosophies such as Zen and the even older Taoism. The analysis also takes into account the context in which “Mouroir” was written, namely Breytenbach’s term in prison (1975-1982). …”
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Remarks on the philosophy of Idokan Karate by Wojciech J. Cynarski

“…The specific, symbolic content of Idokan Karate is taken from philosophic Taoism, Chinese and Japanese tradition of martial arts, and from Christianity. …”
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Rewriting as Reception: Gary Snyder’s Representation of Chuang Tzu in His Eco-Poetic Literature by Bilin Liu

“…Most of scholars studying Snyder, however, seem to ignore his reception of Chuang Tzu and are more inclined to credit Tao Te Ching alone for his familiarity with Taoism. Thus, this study explores Snyder’s understanding of Chuang Tzu. …”
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Research of furniture design based on Chinese traditional sustainable ideology by Chai Lulu, Wang Xiang, Chen Zixuan

“…By analyzing China’s simple sustainable ideas, the author discovered the holistic view in the idea of ‘Nature and Humanity’, the frugal view of the ‘Using wisely’ idea, the concept of benevolence in the thought of ‘love of all people and all things’, the ecological view in the thought of ‘things are not endless’ and the view of life in the thought of ‘Taoism follows nature’, these five perspectives provide systematic sustainable ideas for modern furniture. …”
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Segregation in religion networks by Jiantao Hu, Qian-Ming Zhang, Tao Zhou

“…Here we analyze a directed social network extracted from weibo.com (the largest directed social network in China, similar to twitter.com), which is consisted of 6875 believers in Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Taoism. This religion network is highly segregative. …”
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Between strokes by Lek, Yi Xian

“…Yet, due to the fact that Taoism’s concept of balance (yin and yang) stemmed from that of I-Ching, many people have misconceptions that I-Ching is religious. …”
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The Direct Path : Creating a Journey to the Divine Through the World's Mystical Traditions / by Harvey, Andrew, 1952-, author 269941

“…In this groundbreaking, eloquently written work, renowned religious scholar Andrew Harvey builds on his twenty-five-year study of the world's various mystical traditions--including Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, the Kabbalah, and Christian mysticism--to create an illuminating spiritual map that anyone can use to develop a direct path to the divine. …”

Incense smoke: clinical, structural and molecular effects on airway disease by Krishnaswamy Guha, Lin Ta-Chang, Chi David S

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>In Asian countries where the Buddhism and Taoism are mainstream religions, incense burning is a daily practice. …”
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Buddhism as a resource of “soft power” of China by Tatyana Ivanovna Ponka, Altn Erdnievna Dzhanaeva, - Zhao Jielin

“…It also examined the historical formation of Buddhism and its development as a resource of “soft power” by way of the one of state Chinese religions that is part of the syncretic complex, along with Confucianism and Taoism, in different periods of Chinese civilization, from the pre-imperial period to the modern framework. …”
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Guwonpa, WMSCOG, and Shincheonji: Three Dynamic Grassroots Groups in Contemporary Korean Christian NRM History by David W. Kim, Won-il Bang

“…The socio-political transformation from feudalism to modernisation emaciated the religiosity of the traditional beliefs (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, shamanism, and folk religions). …”
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An Introduction to Plum Blossom Boxing: History, Culture and Practice by Guodong Zhang, Thomas A. Green

“…These factors laid the groundwork for the “character traits” of the art while Taoism, the Five Elements theory, and a concept of predictable change shaped Plum Boxing’s strategic and mechanical principles. …”
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Discovering the Synthesis between Marxism and Xi Jinping’s thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era by V. V. Sukhomlinova

“…During the era of Chinese empire this mechanism was applied to Confucianism when it was attacked by opposing philosophical teachings (like legalism, Taoism, Buddhism and western liberalism) threatening to undermine the Confucian-based political regime. …”
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Gender issues in Confucian ethics in contemporary Vietnam by S. A. Nizhnikov, Tien Bac Pham

“…Confucianism like Taoism is a part of the treasury of the world spiritual culture as created by the “axial age” (K. …”
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Understanding of Punishment in the Philosophical, Political and Legal Doctrines of Ancient China by Ye. S. Lohvynenko, I. A. Lohvynenko

“…Based on the analysis of the philosophical, political and legal doctrines of Ancient China – Taoism, Confucianism, Mo-tze’s guidelines, Mo-dze’s teachings, Legist and Orthodox Confucianism – the authors have demonstrated specific features of understanding the essence of punishment in the ancient Chinese society. …”
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Rediscovering the Idea of Cultural Heritage and the Relationship with Nature: Four Schools of Essential Thought of the Ancient Han Chinese by Otto Chen, Dawei Han

“…With a case study of Huaqing Palace of the Tang Dynasty (618&#8722;907 CE), the research is expected to be the first attempt to rediscover that the four schools of thought, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and <i>I Ching</i>, had jointly formed a &#8220;wisdom&#8221; system of the ancient Han Chinese in shaping the idea of cultural heritage, as well as the idea of heritage conservation, which were inherited by modern Chinese without knowing and recognising it. …”
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Evaluation of the Flourish Dashboard for Context-Aware Fault Diagnosis in Industry 4.0 Smart Factories by Lukas Kaupp, Kawa Nazemi, Bernhard Humm

“…We have already published TAOISM, a visual analytics model defining the context-aware fault diagnosis process for the Industry 4.0 domain. …”
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Bodily Contemplation: On the Question of the Truth of the Perception of Physical Objects in Chinese Landscape Painting by Yiqun Wang

“…Landscape painting is usually considered as a spiritual work of Taoism: landscape painting developed from Taoist thought, Taoist philosophy determined the identity of the artistic style and the inherent spirit of landscape painting. …”
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Characteristics and achievements of the Xin'an Medical School by Yun Pan, Jian Wang, Jianpeng Hu, Lina Wang, Zihui Li, Feifei Bu, Yinjun Wen, Ya'nan Song

“…This paper intends to discuss its academic characteristics and contribution to the development of traditional Chinese medicine, focusing on its formation, academic inheritance and innovation, overseas popularization, and integration of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in medicine. Keywords: Xin'an Medical School, Regional medical schools, Ancient Huizhou, Achievements and characteristics…”
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