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Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, Cantonese: Dou) is a Chinese character often translated as ‘Way’ or 'Path'. Though often seen as a linguistic monad (especially by Westerners), the character dao was often ...

way to gain perfect virtue. It focuses on the "way" (dào, 道) that is prescribed by a heavenly mandate not only to the ruler but to every person. Following these heavenly instructions by learning and teaching them ...

The character Tao 道 (or Dao, depending on the romanization scheme) means "path" or "way," but in Chinese religion and philosophy it has taken on more abstract meanings (LaFargue 1994). The word ...

[[Image:Dao4.PNG|thumb|200px|left|the Chinese character 道 dao in Taoism.]] Although Western scholars have given lip service to Xuizhen, calling it Hsien-Taoism, or “the search for immortality,” it has been treated ...

meaning "island" (島) and the other "province" (道). Jejudo (Romanized, officially, without the hyphen) refer to Jeju the island, not the province, while (with the hyphen) Jeju-do refers to the government ...

The character Tao 道 (or Dao, depending on the Romanization scheme used) literally means "path" or "way," but in Chinese religion and philosophy it has taken on more abstract meanings. ...

ai (合) (union/harmony); ki (気) ( universal energy/spirit); and do (道) (way). It can be translated as "the way to union with universal energy" or "the way of unified energy." Another common interpretation ...

ko|{{linktext|道|峰|區}} ) * Dongdaemun-gu (동대문구; ko|{{linktext|東|大|門|區}} ) * Dongjak-gu (동작구; ko|{{linktext|銅|雀|區}} ) * Eunpyeong-gu (은평구; ko|{{linktext|恩|平|區}} ...

and calm, which results from his or her cultivation of the Dao (道; "The Way"). Daoists avoid letting their own raw emotional responses come to the fore irresponsibly; so, they do not initiate action but wait ...

can also be read as "kami" in Japanese), and "道" tō meaning “way” or “path” (the same character is used for the Chinese word Dao). As such, Shinto is commonly translated as "the Way ...

shunned. Thus the novel embodies the Buddhist (佛) and Daoist (道) concept that in order to find enlightenment, one must realize that the world is only a dream from which we must awake. ==Language == The novel, written ...

level of local political organization above prefectures—the circuit (道, dao)—dividing his state into ten circuits. In 628, Ashina Duobi and Ashina Shibobi had a falling out, and Ashina Shibobi submitted to Emperor ...

of the Dao"). In both cases, the character Dao (道) refers to a particular philosophical understanding of "the Way" (understood in the context of politics, internal cultivation, the natural world, and ...