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A daoshi (Chinese: 道士; lit. 'scholar of the Tao'), translated as Taoist priest, Taoist monk, or Taoist professional is a priest in Taoism. The courtesy title of a senior daoshi is daozhang (道长, meaning "Tao master"), and a highly accomplished and revered daoshi is often called a zhenren (真人, "perfected person").
The Chinese classics of the Zhou dynasty, the Xunzi, the Records of the Grand Historian as well as others describe these figures as illustrious models for righteousness and virtue. Tang of Shang, as depicted by Ma Lin. Chinese tradition describes the first Shang king, Tang, as a religious and perspicacious figure in Chinese history. According ...
The spirits were thought to be powerful; therefore, Neolithic Chinese peoples engaged in communication with them through a variety of methods – including prayers, grave goods, and animal sacrifice. [276] Neolithic cultures in many regions of China practised divination with bones, namely scapulae from cattle, sheep, pigs, and deer. [277] [278]
The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets. Translated by Hawkes, David. Penguin. ISBN 9780140443752. Hopkins, L.C. (1920). "The Shaman or Wu 巫: A Study in Graphic Camouflage". The New China Review. 2 (5): 423– 439. Hopkins, L.C. (1945). "The Shaman or Chinese Wu: His Inspired Dancing and ...
Xuanzang (Chinese: 玄奘; Wade–Giles: Hsüen Tsang; [ɕɥɛ̌n.tsâŋ]; 6 April 602 – 5 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (陳褘 / 陳禕), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, [1] was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator.
An explanation to the origins of Taoist ritual clothing (Chinese: 道衣; pinyin: dàoyī; lit.'Taoist clothing') might be they are derived from robes worn by zhouyi (Chinese: 咒醫; pinyin: zhòuyī; i.e. ritual healers) and fangshi in ancient China as their clothing were embroidered with patterns of flowing pneuma which are similar to clouds, depictions of the celestial real and the underworld.
The Record of the Masters and Students of the Laṅka (Léngqié Shīzī Jì 楞伽師資記), which survives both in Chinese and in Tibetan translation (although the surviving Tibetan translation is apparently of older provenance than the surviving Chinese version), states that Bodhidharma is not the first ancestor of Zen, but instead the second.
Luo Wenzao [a] OP (c. 1610s – 27 February 1691) was the first person of Chinese ethnicity to be appointed as a Catholic bishop.After the Qing dynasty proscribed Christianity and banished foreign missionaries in 1665, Luo became the only person in charge of the Catholic missions in China.