Early Taoist texts reject the basic assumptions of Confucianism which relied on rituals and order, in favour of the examples of " wild " nature and individualism.

Moreover, Confucianism is not necessarily regarded as a religion, allowing one to be a Taoist, Christian, or Buddhist and still profess Confucian beliefs.

The area also contains large numbers of Taoist and Buddhist temples, as well as several landmarks of Confucianism.

The irony was that the intellectual techniques, textual methods and cultural strategies used by nativist scholars against Confucianism borrowed heavily from currents in both Chinese thought ( Taoist, Confucian and Buddhist ) and their Japanese offshoots.

Other Sino-Mauritians are Protestant, Buddhist or Taoist ; typically, some syncretism occurs among the latter two, incorporating elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and traditional ancestor worship.

Proponents of Zen to the West emphasize disproportionately the amount of Mahayana Buddhism in Zen, probably in order to dignify the indisputably magical Taoist ideas with more respectable Buddhist metaphysic.

There were bans after death of emperors, Buddhist and Taoist prayers,

Finally, near the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties era, both Buddhist and Taoist followers compromised and became more tolerant of each other.

Neo-Confucianism was a revived version of old Confucian principles that appeared around the Song Dynasty, with Buddhist, Taoist, and Legalist features.

Mindanao has been the seat of two sultanates namely the Sultanate of Sulu and the Sultanate of Maguindanao along with the most hispanized city in Asia, a considerable number of Buddhist and Taoist temples and the indigenous tribes known as Lumad people which makes it more diverse.

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.

There is today a balance between outside influences of Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Abrahamic, Hindu and secular beliefs.

These accounts were written with two purposes in mind: the introduction of Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist themes into Japanese religion ; and garnering support for the legitimacy of the Imperial house, based on its lineage from the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

Christine Mollier concluded that a number of Buddhist sutras found in medieval East Asia and Central Asia adopted many materials from earlier Taoist scriptures.

Many Unitarian Universalists consider themselves humanists, while others hold to Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, natural theist, atheist, agnostic, absurdist, pantheist, pagan, Taoist, and other beliefs.

However, in the orthodox Taoist and Buddhist rituals, only vegetarian food would suffice.

* Tao-un ( 312-385 ), Chinese Buddhist monk, translator who elimnates Taoist words from Buddhist writings

The government provides temporary lodging for 5, 345 people in nearby Buddhist and Taoist monasteries.

Here too, each word in the kuji was associated with Buddhist deities, animals from Taoist mythology, and later, Shinto kami.

* John Blofeld, Taoist and Buddhist author

Falun Gong emphasises morality and the cultivation of virtue in its central tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (), and identifies as a qigong practice of the Buddhist school, though its teachings also incorporate elements drawn from Taoist traditions.

In his hagiographic spiritual biography Li Hongzhi is said to have been taught ways of " cultivation practice " by several masters of the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, including Quan Jue, the 10th Heir to the Great Law of the Buddha School, a Taoist master from age eight to twelve, and a master of the Great Way School with the Taoist alias of True Taoist from the Changbai Mountains.

Taipei is rich in beautiful, ornate temples housing Buddhist, Taoist, and Chinese folk religion deities.

The Boxers ' primary feature was spirit possession, which involved " the whirling of swords, violent prostrations, and chanting incantations to Taoist and Buddhist spirits.

The service is organized by the Hong Kong ex-servicemen Association, and is attended by various Government officials and the representatives of various religious traditions such as the Anglican Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Buddhist community, the Taoist community, the Muslim community and the Sikh community.

Emphasis was placed on the spiritual qualities of the painting and on the ability of the artist to reveal the inner harmony of man and nature, as perceived according to Taoist and Buddhist concepts.

A legendary culture hero, Zhang Sanfeng is credited by modern practitioners as having originated the concepts of neijia ( 內家 ); soft, internal martial arts, specifically T ' ai chi ch ' uan, as a result of a Neo-Confucian syncretism of Chán Buddhist Shaolin martial arts with his mastery of Taoist Tao Yin ( neigong ) principles.

This shows that early on the Eight Immortals quickly became eminent figures of the Taoist religion, and had great importance.

Shenist temples are usually small, very colourful ( by contrast with Taoist temples which by tradition should be black and white in color, and Buddhist temples which are characterised by a prevalence of yellow and red tonalities ), and decorated with traditional figures on their roofs ( dragons and deities ), although some evolve into significant structures.

The Chinese collection is represented by fine Dehua porcelain figures, Taoist and Buddhistic statuary, export porcelain, calligraphy and other examples of decorative art.

The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe, a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century AD: " Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey ; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.

He and fellow scholar-bureaucrat Yuan Zhen made plans to retire together as Taoist recluses once they had saved enough funds, but Yuan's death kept that dream from being fulfilled.

Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen made a " Green Mountain pact " to retire together as Taoist recluses once they had accumulated enough funds, but Yuan's untimely death kept them from achieving that dream.

In 1968, Moy co-founded, together with Taoist Masters Mui Ming-to and Mrs Tang Yuen Mei, the temple for the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism ( FLK ; Penglai ge, 蓬萊閣 ) on the grounds of the Yuen Yuen Institute.

In 1968, Moy Lin-shin co-founded ( together with Taoist Masters Mui Ming-to and Mrs Tang Yuen Mei ) the temple for the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism on the grounds of the Yuen Yuen Institute.

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove () were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians who came together in the 3rd century CE.

Harmony with the Universe, or the source thereof ( Tao ), is the intended result of many Taoist rules and practices.

This idea is developed further in the Great Learning, and is tightly linked with the Taoist concept of wu wei (): the less the king does, the more gets done.

The religion has been likened to Zen, based on similarities with absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school, as well as Taoist philosophy.

It is written with the kanji "", Sino-Japanese reading shin or jin ; in Chinese, the character is used to refer to various nature spirits of traditional Chinese religion, but not to the Taoist deities or the Supreme Being.

It was there that he discovered the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed text which has a date ( corresponding to AD 868 ), along with 40, 000 other scrolls ( all removed by gradually winning the confidence of the Taoist caretaker ).

The internal styles are also known as Wǔdāngquán, named for their association with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan range, Hubei Province in Chinese popular legend.

Internal styles have been associated in legend and in much popular fiction with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan in central China.

Other religions include Judaism, Mahayana Buddhism, often mixed with Taoist beliefs, Hinduism, and Sikhism.

The Southern Temple has been a popular subject of wuxia fiction, first appearing in the 1893 novel Shengchao Ding Sheng Wannian Qing, where it is attacked by the Qianlong Emperor with the help of the White Eyebrow Taoist.

This is when a Taoist with the pen name " Purple Coagulation Man of the Way " wrote the Sinews Changing Classic in 1624, but claimed to have discovered it.

Taoist schools traditionally feature reverence for Laozi, immortals or ancestors, along with a variety of divination and exorcism rituals, and practices for achieving ecstasy, longevity or immortality.

It is unlikely that Zhuangzi was familiar with the text of the Daodejing, and Zhuangzi would not have identified himself as a Taoist as this classification did not arise until well after his death.

In ancient Taoist texts, wu-wei is associated with water through its yielding nature.

The Taijitu (" yin and yang ") symbol as well as the Ba gua 八卦 (" Eight Trigrams ") are associated with Taoist symbolism.

The concept of the taiji (" supreme ultimate "), in contrast with wuji (" without ultimate "), appears in both Taoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy, where it represents the fusion or mother of Yin and Yang into a single ultimate, represented by the taijitu symbol.

In the third month of 184, Zhang Jiao, leader of the Way of Supreme Peace, a Taoist movement, along with his two brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, led the movement's followers in a rebellion against the government that was called the Yellow Turban Rebellion.