Much of the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine derived from empirical observations of disease and illness by Taoist physicians and reflects the classical Chinese belief that individual human experiences express causative principles effective in the environment at all scales.

Two landmark films, Encounters of the Spooky Kind ( 1980 ) and The Dead and the Deadly ( 1983 ) feature Jiang Shi who move in standing jumps towards their victims, as well as Taoist priests with the ability to quell these vampires ( and at times, each other ) through magical spells and charms.

This battle inspired him to create a 72-movement T ' ai chi ch ' uan “ set .” He is also associated in legend with the Taoist monasteries at Wudang Mountains in Hubei province.

** The Last Day of the Twelfth Moon ; on this holiday ale and fruit were provided as offerings to the god of the stove, after having Buddhist or Taoist priests recite scripture at one's own home ( if one had the wealth and means ).

However, when he later recalls last night's events the next day, he becomes increasingly fearful and superstitious because a Taoist told him that the people he saw at the temple were ghosts.

Zhongli Quan ( Who happened to be his Teacher and Mentor in Taoist stories ) was looking and laughing at him while all these events were happening.

At this time, the famous Taoist Yeh Fa-shan was in great favor at Court, thanks to his skill in necromancy.

Many episodes also feature some moral lesson, usually based upon Buddhist and / or Taoist philosophies, which are spoken by the narrator at the end of various scenes.

In the mid-7th century, Empress Saimei built, a Taoist temple, at.

A scholar serving as an official would usually follow Confucian teachings, but at leisure or in retirement might seek harmony with nature as a Taoist recluse.

Su's early education was conducted under a Taoist priest at a local village school.

Pangu is worshipped at a number of shrines in contemporary China, usually with Taoist symbols, such as the Bagua.

He employed Taoist priests to collect rare minerals from all over the country to create elixirs, including elixirs containing mercury, which inevitably posed health problems at high doses.

In Tao produces One-Wuji produces Taiji, it represents the Great Tao, embodied by Yuánshǐ Tiānwáng ( 混沌無極元始天王 ) " Heavenly King of the Void and Chaotic Primordial Beginning " at a time of pre-Creation when the Universe was still null and the cosmos are in disorder ; manifesting into the first of the Taoist Trinity, Yuanshi Tianzun.

Qingming in Malaysia is an elaborate family function or a clan feast ( usually organized by the respective clan association ) to commemorate and honour recently deceased relatives at their grave sites and distant ancestors from China at home altars, clan temples or makeshift altars in Buddhist or Taoist temples.

A Taoist monastery at Wudang Mountains

1849-1931 ) was a Taoist priest and abbot of the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang during the early 20th century.

don't like femininity " weaken his presentation, but on the whole, his Taoist manifesto distills ageless personal and political wisdom, relaying an ecological message we ignore at our peril.

It is in the state of Ming that the Taoist is in full harmony with Tao, and ' having arrived at this pointless point of non-action, there is nothing that is left undone.

* Buddhist and Taoist Studies ( Asian Studies at Hawaii, No. 18 ) ( editor ) ( 1977 )

For instance, he supported Taoism at the expense of Buddhism, and to this effect in 643 sent emissaries to the Tang court requesting Taoist sages, eight of whom were brought to Goguryeo.

: A Taoist and a regular human, he's quite skilled at using paper charms, and can sense demonic energy.

A roadside hokora dedicated to kami InariThose worshiped at a shrine are generally Shinto kami, but sometimes they can be Buddhist or Taoist deities, as well as others not generally considered to belong to Shinto.

* Taoist Teachings Translated from the Book of Lieh-Tzu, Giles ' translation, Internet Sacred Text Archive ; also available in more formats on archive. org

This is illustrated by the Discordian Hodge Podge ( also Sacred Chao ), a symbol that is similar in design to the Taoist yin yang.

The Taoist Manual ( Honolulu: Sacred Mountain Press, 2005 ).

Although these five mountains are not traditionally canonized as having any exclusive religious affiliations, many of them has a strong Taoist presence, thus the five mountains are also grouped by some as part of " Sacred Taoist Mountains ".

** Lamentations at Sacred Texts KJV, Tan, Sep, Vul

* Confucian Documents at the Internet Sacred Texts Archive.

* Candide ( original version ) with English annotations at Tailored Texts

* Merlin: Texts, Images, Basic Information, Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.

* CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach ( which includes the Duan Albanach ), Genealogies, and various Saints ' Lives.

* CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach and Innisfallen, the Lebor Bretnach and the Chronicon Scotorum among others.

Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

See Walter J. Ong, Ramus and Talon Inventory ( Harvard University Press, 1958 ); Joseph S. Freedman, Philosophy and the Art Europe, 1500-1700: Teaching and Texts at Schools and Universities ( Ashgate, 1999 ).

* Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids By William Stukeley, at Sacred Texts.

* Stonehenge, and Other British Monuments Astronomically Considered By Norman Lockyer, at Sacred Texts.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

* Thelema at the Internet Sacred Texts Archive — a collection of texts on the topic of Thelema

Text available at Sacred Texts and Northvegr.

* CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork

The earliest mentions of the Osiris myth are in the Pyramid Texts, the first Egyptian funerary texts, which appeared on the walls of burial chambers in pyramids at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, during the 25th century BC.

From at least the time of the Pyramid Texts, kings hoped that after their deaths they could emulate Osiris ' restoration to life and his rule over the realm of the dead.

Texts in the Hurrian language have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit ( Ras Shamra ), as well as one of the longest of the Amarna letters, written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

* Bakunin Texts at Anarchy is Order

The myth of Set's conflict with Horus, Osiris, and Isis appears in many Egyptian sources, including the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, the Shabaka Stone, inscriptions on the walls of the temple of Horus at Edfu, and various papyrus sources.

* CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork including the Annals of Ulster, the Annals of Tigernach and the Chronicon Scotorum.

M. Jastrow, 1915 ; at Sacred Texts and Ancient Texts and Mike's History

( Some of the translations appear at Wodensharrow: Texts ).