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A Brief Review of Taoist Blessings and Rituals Drawing from the Example of the Spring Festival [PDF]

open access: yesEdinost in Dialog
This article offers a brief introduction to Taoist rituals that are performed to seek blessings. The focus is especially on the Taoist blessing ceremonies that take place during the Spring Festival, which is now recognized as a United Nations floating ...
Chongdao Song, Jure Čeh
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Taoism and the concept of global security

open access: yes, 2005
C1 - Refereed Journal ArticleGlobal security is typically discussed in the rationalist terms used to articulate contemporary modernism. To restrict analysis to such articulations, however, is to accept the limits and distortions that this way of being ...
Pettman, R
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Directing Dramas is Returning Hometown: Reading Lin Zhaohua’s The Cherry Orchard from the Perspective of the Taoist Freedom, Xiaoyao

open access: yesTheatre Academy
Born in 1936 and starting to produce little theatre praxes in 1982, Lin Zhaohua is the first Chinese theatre director who could be considered the predecessor of most other Chinese directors after the proclamation of the 1978 Reform and Opening-Up policy.
Chengyun Zhao
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Taoism themes in modern chinese cinematography

open access: yes, 2014
The paper demonstrates some peculiarities of Taoism, a Chinese national religion, in its intersection with Chinese cinematography. The paper analyses how Taoism themes influence modern Chinese films and how they are interpreted in plots, characters and ...
Andreev, D. I., Андреев, Д. И.
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Taoism and McLuhan: A Media Ecology Study

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis develops the idea that Taoism, an Eastern philosophy, and the discipline of media ecology are strikingly similar, and because of these similarities it is hard for the highly literate culture of the West to understand these concepts ...
Rogers, Megan Avery
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On the Symbols of Taoism

open access: yes, 2000
道教思想的解读存在诸多困难。其主要原因在于中国传统思维往往通过符号象征来表达思想理念 ,而道教在这个问题上尤其突出。因此 ,必须从符号学的角度对道教思想体系进行新的探讨。道教符号不仅具有自身的完整性 ,而且有其内在结构和组码原则 ;道教符号系统包含着许多子系统 ,其间存在着互相转换的关系 ,通过对这种关系的解剖 ,我们可以进一步认知其语言通讯功能The reason why it is rather difficult to explain the thought of Taoism lies in ...
詹石窗
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Way of Taoism : evolution, entrenchment or extinction.

open access: yes, 2010
Taoism has been bleeding devotees in the past few years, with challenges from within and without the religion. What was once Singapore's most widespread religion is fighting a battle of attrition in recent years, and many have pointed the finger at ...
Zheng, Aiping.   +2 more
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Pas (Julian F.). Historical Dictionary of Taoism

open access: yes, 1999
Goossaert Vincent. Pas (Julian F.). Historical Dictionary of Taoism. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°106, 1999.
Goossaert, Vincent
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The Cosmological Archetype of War in Sun-zi Treatise “Bing fa”

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The proposed research analyzes for the first time the text of the ancient Chinese treatise “The Art of War” (兵法 bing fa ) from the point of view of the presence in it of archetypal constructions designed to tame chaos in such a phenomenon of human ...
Vladimir P. Abramenko
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