Daoism Research Paper

Daoism also known as Taoism is a religion-philosophical tradition and culture which bring an enormous influence to all over the world. Daoism was originally found in the Daodejing which was written by the first philosopher of Chinese Laozi, (Chinese name “Mater Lao” or Old Master) which gave explanation as to the reason of why the central writing of Daodejing was in Chinese.Laozi was well-known as a philosopher and he was worshipped by many Chinese as an imperial ancestor during the period of Tang dynasty up until recent age(Edward 2005). He was consider a central figure in Chinese history, culture and philosophy. Before the noticing of Laozi by SI Maqian, Laozi was also a historian, his wrote a book which has five thousands characters about his ideas of Dao ( …show more content…
He believed the thought that it was important to practice inner calm and pure, and the concept of “nonaction” (Wuwei) which implies spontaneity and non-interference (Phillip & Laozi 2003). Besides that Daoism is also famous because the rumours of immortal. The important aspect of the belief "Dao" is that people can live forever and can become immortal (Kohn 2001). Since there are so many benefit of practicing Daoism for immortal and health cultivation, people started to find a way to worship and practice Daoism. Nowadays, Daoism is not only known as a philosophy but also known as a religion. That bring us to today controversial topic, whether the Daoism is a religion or a philosophy? In this essay, the introduction of Daoism and the relative writing Daodejing will highlight the evidences such as the comparison with other recognized religion, Buddhism. Also other scholar opinion on the argument will explicate, and the counter-argument will also be explained at the end to support the argument that Daoism is both a philosophy and a religion Daoism is not fully belong to just a philosophy or religion, it is a combination of