Complicating matters, the zodiac signs here represent the symbols of Islamic Iran, with which Yuan and Ming China had close contacts. A mystical approach to the world developed within Taoism.

Taoist texts sometimes refer to the Tao as the ... You can see this by looking at the yin yang symbol. The yin yang concept is not the same as Western dualism, because the two opposites are ...

but the notion of the Tao that they preach projects an image of the highest universal principle, a symbol of the mystery.

When we know that Wu was a Taoist priest and that the dragon is a Taoist yang symbol, we can readily see his twisted pine as a supreme figure of ageless energy expressed by long, slow growth.

Two sticks of incense smolder in front of the altar of the Three Purities, the supreme divinities of Taoism. A yin-andyang symbol has been carved into the floor. A monk, his hair bound into a bun ...

I must take exception to his ridicule of Mr. Lee's expression of his Taoist philosophy. In an age where celebrities take pride in pontificating on any political cause that goes in one ear and ...

Taoist visions of the body form a central part of my research. Taoism (also spelled Daoism), an indigenous tradition of China, understands humans to be an integral part of the larger cosmos.

In Taoist tradition talismans are strips of paper on which are written words of power and religious symbols which focus benevolent spiritual energies to purify, heal the sick and drive away demons.