Liber XXXI · Taoism & Chinese Religion
Liber XXXI · Taoism & Chinese Religion
Introduction
The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi, Confucius, and the gods and spirits of China.
Chinese religion weaves together Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and a far older popular religion of ancestors, gods and spirits. This section covers the philosophical classics of the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi, the religious Taoism of the Celestial Masters and the Taoist canon, the pursuit of immortality through inner and outer alchemy, Confucius and the Confucian classics, yin and yang and the five phases, ancestor veneration, the gods of the Chinese pantheon, and divination with the I Ching and feng shui.
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