In Chinese texts, specific yao 妖 are sometimes referred to as 鬼 (gui, spectre or ghost), 怪 (guai, strange monster), 魔 (mo, demon close to the Western sense) or 邪 (xie, spiritually deviant or …

2023年1月10日 · The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Wudoumi dao), one of the earliest Taoist religious communities, was called guidao 鬼道 (Way of Ghosts) and its believers were called …

2020年10月1日 · Believing in Ghosts and Spirits: The Concept of Gu... The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits, thus mapping the religious landscape of …

Guiguzi (鬼谷子), also called Baihece (traditional Chinese: 捭闔策; simplified Chinese: 捭阖策; pinyin: bǎihécè), is a collection of ancient Chinese texts compiled between the late Warring …

Explore the mystical realm of gui, mythical spirits born from the negative essence of souls. Discover their varied traits, legends, and protective measures against these enigmatic entities.

Daoism, an ancient life philosophy, provides a practical approach to life. The ultimate goal is to achieve Tai He (Grand Harmony), in body, mind and spirit, as well as with others. Our …

2020年9月21日 · Under the section on the ways of sacrifice (祭法 ji fa), it is stated that basically when people die they are called ghost (鬼 gui), whereas (神 shen) refers to special …

2020年9月21日 · The main focus of attention is the character gui 鬼, an essential key to the understanding of spiritual beings. The author analyses the character gui in various materials – …

2016年4月6日 · It is, in essence, a Daoist approach to the art of rhetoric and persuasion. Thomas Cleary's book "Thunder in the Sky" provides an accessible translation of this text, whose title …

Since Chinese is written in ideograms, not an alphabet, it is difficult to know what the original pronunciation would have been for "道". Regarding the modern choice of "dao" vs "tao", the …