Art and Architecture
Poetry form with a 5,7,5 format
Haiku
Taoist idea about your destiny in life
Determined at birth
Name for ancestral spirits
Kami
No leaders, no doctrine, no teachings
Shintoist beliefs, Shinto beliefs
Syllables in the lines of a Haiku in order are:
5, 7, 5
A gate marks the entrance to this spiritual space
A Shinto shrine
Shinto belief about elders and ancestors
Salt and sugar, hot and cold, plus and minus
Taoist Yin and Yang; create balance and harmony
Humans are intrinsically good, just by being humans. No original sins
Buddhism came from India to China and then on to Japan through
Important aspect of entering a shrine
Person who communicates with Kami and living people
A Medium
Shintoist beliefs: natural disasters
Are caused by unhappy Kami due to human destruction of nature, polluting nature
People, a rock, a river
All have equality in Shintoist beliefs
Chinese sage who inspired generations of people in their approach to life
Confucius
Where Kami reside
Trees, rocks, water, mountains, animals
Animism is the belief, many people are animists because their spiritual traditions include this idea
Two traditions we studied over two weeks that state family is the center of all
Confucian thought, and Shintoism
A wise person in Tao Te Ching
Sage
Fate calculators
Create a life chart using Taoist beliefs
Place to care for the memory of deceased relatives
Cemetery
Taoist thought from Tao Te Ching
Caused by unhappy Kami
Natural disasters
Think of the whole group, not just yourself
the Greater Good is more important than the individual
Harmony and balance are created in people and the world by
Yin and Yang - Taoist beliefs