The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2541 page)

 
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(4th/3rd cent. BCE).
One of the earliest Chinese philosophers to systematize a naturalism based on
yin-yang
—hence the Yin-yang school (or more fully Yin-yang Wu-hsingchia, Yin-yang Five Phases School). Through the interaction of male–female, light–dark, heavy–light, heaven–earth, and other opposites, the T’ai-chi, the primordial foundation, works its way into manifestation by use of the five elements (
wu-hsing
).

 
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(Chin., ‘sitting forgetting’).
Taoist
technique of meditation in which the mind floats completely free from content and association and is at one with Tao. Its attainment is described in
Chuang-tzu
6. 7.

 
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see
FESTIVALS AND FASTS
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see
CHINESE RELIGION
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see
CHINESE RELIGION
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