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The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.) defines shen in these terms, "In Chinese philosophy: a god, person of supernatural power, or the spirit of a dead person." Shen can also refer to a living, "'spiritual' or 'spiritlike'" person or people when they accomplish things perceived to be superhuman, such as saving "people through the power of ...
The earliest Buddhist art is from the Mauryan era (322 BCE – 184 BCE), there is little archeological evidence for pre-Mauryan period symbolism. [6] Early Buddhist art (circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) is commonly (but not exclusively) aniconic (i.e. lacking an anthropomorphic image), and instead used various symbols to depict the Buddha.
Despite the invocation of Buddhist language and symbols, the law wheel as understood in Falun Gong has distinct connotations, and is held to represent the universe. [2] It is conceptualized by an emblem consisting of one large and four small swastika symbols, representing the Buddha, [3] and four small Taiji (yin-yang) symbols of the Daoist ...
It has subsequently also been used to refer to the jing, qi, and shen and to the Buddhist Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). This latter use is misleading, however, as the Three Jewels in Buddhism is a completely different philosophy. The Buddha is the teacher, the Dharma is the teaching, and the Sangha is the community.
Seen in Buddhist and Taoist temples. Naluoyan Jingang: 那羅延金剛 He: 和 Collectively, the "2 Immortals He and He", with names meaning "Harmony" and "Union". He: 合 Qin Shubao: 秦叔寶 Tang generals whose image was ordered placed upon gates by the Great Ancestor of the Tang ("Emperor Taizong") Yuchi Gong: 尉遲恭 Sun Bin: 孫臏
Other sinologists who have not espoused the idea of a unified "national religion" have studied Chinese religion as a system of meaning, or have brought further development in C. K. Yang's distinction between "institutional religion" and "diffused religion", the former functioning as a separate body from other social institutions, and the latter ...
Despite the invocation of Buddhist language and symbols, the law wheel as understood in Falun Gong has distinct connotations, and is held to represent the universe. [104] It is conceptualized by an emblem consisting of one large and four small (counter-clockwise) swastika symbols, representing the Buddha, and four small Taiji (yin-yang) symbols ...
Note: in the economy of a discourse over Vietnamese religion, the author studies in deep certain concepts of Chinese religion at large. Feuchtwang, Stephan (2016). "Chapter 5: Chinese Religions". In Woodhead, Linda; Partridge, Christopher; Kawanami, Hiroko (eds.). Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations (3rd ed.). London ...