Religious Studies 270
CHINESE RELIGIONS
Fall 2007
Quiz 2 Study Sheet

Classical Daoism:

Daojia / Daojiao

Laozi

Daodejing

wu-wei

ziran ("spontaneous, natural")

ineffable

"uncarved block"

Zhuangzi

change / transformation

"hinge of the Way" or "axis of dao"

"sitting and forgetting"

"fasting of the mind"

Cook Ding

Han syncretism and cosmology:

Qin Dynasty

Han Dynasty

Li Si (d. 208 BCE)

Qin Shi Huangdi

Legalism

Burning of the Books

Springs and Autumns of Mr. Lü

Huang-Lao texts

Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor

Sima Tan

Han Wudi (Emperor Wu of the Han)

Dong Zhongshu (2nd c. BCE)

Yijing

hexagrams

Eight Trigrams

"Three Mainstays"

"ten Heavenly stems / twelve earthly branches"

qi

yin-yang

Five Phases (wuxing)

"correlative thought"

feng-shui

Popular and state religion:

yang soul (hun) and yin soul (po)

gods (shen) / ghosts (gui) / ancestors (zu)

fu gods and shi gods

Mazu

Guan Yu / Guan gong (or Guan di)

Stove / Kitchen God

Earth God (tudi gong)

City God

Jade Emperor

spirit money

Yellow Springs (not the one in Ohio)

monism / non-dualism / dualism

institutional and diffused religion

moon-blocks

divination slips

spirit-mediums

divination chairs (palanquins)

Qingming Festival

zongjiao ("religion")

san jiao ("three religions")

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

lineage festivals

family (lineage) temples (jia miao)

community temples and festivals

Jiao ritual

"ordinary time" and "festival time"

spirit marriage

Altar of Heaven

state religion

Daoist religion:

Zhang Daoling

Taishang Laojun (Most High Lord Lao)

Ge Hong (283-343)

Way of the Heavenly Masters (Tianshi dao)

Zhengyi (Orthodox Unity) sect

Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) sect

sacrifice (si), purification (zhai), and offering (jiao)

waidan (external alchemy)

neidan (internal alchemy)

shen / qi / jing (spirit / breath / essence)

three "cinnabar fields"

Three Pure Ones