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1. Final Presentation
Apr 19, 21, 26 — Group
Presentations
On a non-Christian religion
that we did not cover in the
class (see list in Topic 7)
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group.

2. Asian Folk Religions
Topic 6 - Daoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Animism

3. Daoism
Topic 6 - Chinese & Japanese Folk Religions
道

4. Demographics

5. Demographics
Country Distribution Total
Worldwide 1% 73,580,000
China 4.4% 61,500,000
Taiwan 44% 10,372,000
Hong Kong 14.2% 1,066,000
Singapore 11.3% 645,000
North America < 1% 30,000
https://www.worlddata.info/religions/taoism.php
Pluralism project at Harvard, 2020

6. https://www.worlddata.info/religions/taoism.php

7. History

8. Warring States
Period in China
481 - 221 BC
https://www.ancient.eu/Lao-Tzu/

9. Many
Philosophers
How to stop the wars
How to govern armies & states

10. Lao Tze
6th - 4th century BC
The Old Master
Chujen Village, Chu Province

12. Lao Tze
Curator of the Royal Library in the
Chinese province of Chu
Contemplated how to create peace
and harmony in China, and peace
between the warring states

13. Lao Tze
Began to believe that there was a
cosmic force, he later called Tao
Or Dao
It created all things, held things
together. Harmony comes by being
in harmony with this Tao

14. Traveled throughout China teaching about the Dao on a buffalo

15. Dao De Ching
The Way of Power
AT the Hangu pass, the western
gate, a gatekeeper suggested he
write it down. He did, gave it to
the gatekeeper and road out into
the sunset. Never to be seen again

17. Classical Period
5th - 3rd century BC
Philosophy Popularized
Qin Dynasty Dominated
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/

18. Zhuangzi
369 - 286 BC
Shangqiu, Henan Province
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/

19. Beliefs

20. There was something undefined and complete,
coming intoexistence before Heaven and Earth.
How still it was and formless,standing alone,
and undergoing no change, reaching
everywhere and inno danger (of being
exhausted)! It may be regarded as the Mother
ofall things.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm

21. I do not know its name, and I give it the
designation of the Tao. Making an effort
(further) to give it a name I call it The Great.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm

22. Great, it passes on (in constant flow). Passing
on, it become remote. Having become remote,
it returns. Therefore the Tao isgreat; Heaven is
great; Earth is great; and the (sage) king is
also great. In the universe there are four that
are great, and the (sage) king is one of them.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm

23. Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth
takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law
from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being
what it is.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm

24. Beliefs
• There are no bad people, only people who behave badly
• Proper education & guidance leads a person to behave good
• Proper education involves living in harmony with the universe
• Living in harmony means submit and being
fl
exible
https://www.ancient.eu/Taoism/

25. Principles of Daoism
• Li - the observation that everything is always changing
• Dao - (the way) the harmony & order throughout the universe
• Goal - to move in harmony with the Dao
• Wu Wei - Acts we do to live in harmony with Dao
• Pu - Being uncut wood or unformed clay to be formed by the Dao
https://www.ancient.eu/Taoism/

26. Wu wei
Flowing in harmony the Dao

27. Forest Gump, 1994, Introduction

28. Qi 気

29. Qi, - Is believed to be part of everything that exists, as
a “life force” or “spiritual energy” that pervades the
natural world. It constitutes all things and,
simultaneously, is the engine behind all worldly
transformations.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Qi
Qi. (2019). New World Encyclopedia

30. Mulan, 2020, “Your qi is strong”

31. Mulan, 2020, “Your deceit poisons your qi”

32. Five Elements
Wu Xing
(Conner, 2020 Adducation)

33. Creative Cycle
Wood feeds
fi
re
Fire creates Earth (ash)
Earth produces Metals
Metals attract Water (condensation)
Water feeds Wood
(Conner, 2020 Adducation)

34. Weakening Cycle
Counter clockwise
Wood drinks up Water
Water rusts Metal
Mining metal depletes the earth
Earth extinguishes Fire
Fire Burns up Wood
(Conner, 2020 Adducation)

35. Destructive cycle
Follow the straight lines
(Conner, 2020 Adducation)

36. Suppression Cycle
Follow arrows backwards
(Conner, 2020 Adducation)

37. Yin-Yang
Interdependence of Opposites
Yin (dark) - earth, female
Yang (light) - heaven, male
https://www.britannica.com/topic/yinyang

38. Dualist-Monism
Interdependence of Opposites
Good & Bad are Illusions
https://www.britannica.com/topic/yinyang

39. I Ching
Book of Changes
1050 BC

40. Fu Xi
Dragon
Weinberger, 25 Feb 2016, “What is the I Ching?”