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"Classic of the Way and Its Virtue."
What is Daode Jing?
100
This is the governing notion that engenders the entire cosmos.
What is Dao?
100
This religion originates from a variety of ancient religious practices from local traditions.
What is Daoism?
100
This diet is adopted by the monastic traditions, though some lay people attempt to do so as well.
What is a vegetarian diet?
100
This is the idea that all being is related through the "wellspring of existence" called Dao.
What is oneness?
200
This is a collection of myths, short stories, and parables that elaborate on the Daode Jing.
What is Zhuang Zi?
200
This is Zhuang Zi's religious union with the Dao.
What is transformation (hua)?
200
This is the compilation of scriptures was put together in 1445.
What is the Daoist Canon?
200
This is "Orthodox Unity" out of which comes the egneral appellation for Daoist traditions today.
What is Zheng Yi?
200
This structure is thought to have limits for the human being and the Daoists view it as unnatural and second-order.
What is language?
300
Text that focuses on instilling responsibility in humans rather than punishment regulations.
What is One Hundred and Eighty Precepts?
300
The alternation of these binary forces forms the basis of all cosmic processes.
What is yin/yang?
300
This individual stayed in his mother's womb for 81 years to devote himself to the cultivation of the Dao.
Who is Lao Zi?
300
Daoists could practice this religion and appropriate its ideas for Daoism.
What is Buddhism?
400
These are souls that roam restlessly after death.
What are "orphan souls"?
400
This is the place that the "Golden Gate" leads to, where the Dao emerges.
What is The Void?
400
This primordial being, according to an ancient story, birthed the world from its body.
What is Pan Gu?
400
This is the practice that the monks of Complete Perfection were associated with, translated as the "practice of inner alchemy."
What is neidan?
400
Zhuang Zi and Lao Zi place an emphasis on this in order to "order the empire."
What is "ordering the inner cosmos"?
500
This is the most sacred location in the religion.
What is the Wudang Mountain (Kunlun)?
500
This is the energy-matter of the universe in all objects.
What is qi?
500
This is the earliest known Daoist cmmunity who founded a sacred empire to unite with the Dao.
What is the Celestial Masters?
500
This calendar is the basis for the Daoist faith and rituals.
What is the Chinese calendar?
500
These are the three perfectly pure qi that Daoists practice along with their stellar gods.
What are the Three Pure Ones?