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18 Cards in this Set
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Chuang Tzu
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Lao Tzu's disciple, who lived some 200 years after him and wrote numerous treatises on the Tao. He is still considered the best interpreter of the Tao Te Ching; and his collected writings, named after him, stand 2nd in importance only to the Tao Te Ching in the Taoist canon
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Confucius
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The founder of Confucianism and the philosophical "opponent" of Lao Tzu
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Fields of Cinnabar
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The 3 regions of the body which, according to religious Taoists, are located in the head, chest, and abdomen
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Hsien
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Those who become immortal
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I Ching
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"Book of Changes," containing explanations of systems of divination; also accepted as one of the five classics of Confucianism
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Ko Hung
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Taoist scholar and proponent of the immortality school of religious Taoism, including alchemy, many of the hygiene practices, and the accumulation of goodness as a means to attaining immortality
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Kuei
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Bad and unpredictable spirits
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Lao Tzu
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The most familiar name of the founder of Taoism, meaning "old boy"
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P'eng-lai
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The paradisiacal island upon which the hsien were believed to dwell
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Shen
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Beneficial spirits, associated with the sun and the spring, who protected people from the kuei
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Shu Ching
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"Book of History;" one of the five Classics of Confucianism
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Tao
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Literally means "way" or "order,"but in Taoism refers to the ordering principle of the universe. For things to be in their natural and proper state, they must be in harmony with the Tao
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Tao Chia
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Philosophical Taoism
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Tao Te Ching
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Translates as "The Book of the Tao;" the basic text of Taoism
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Wu-Hsing
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the five elements: earth, wood, metal, fire, water
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Wu-Wei
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"non-action" "non doing" "inaction", do nothing in such a way that all things are accomplished
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Yang
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male; light, heat, strength, positivity, intellect, aggressiveness, dryness, sky, heaven, sun, south
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Yin
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female; darkness, cold, weakness, negativity, intuition, wetness, earth, moon, north
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