RELIGIONS
TAOISTS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Three Pure Ones
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Posterior Heavens
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Taoism does not have a God in the way that the Abrahamic religions do. There is no omnipotent being beyond the cosmos, who created and controls the universe. In Taoism the universe springs from the Tao, and the Tao impersonally guides things on their way.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jade Emperor (Yuhuang or Yudi) was considered to be the ruler of Heaven. He was thought to be like a human emperor, in that he ruled over a heavenly court populated by all the important gods of China.
Detailed explanation-3: -In conventional histories, Lord Lao (Laozi) was a sixth-century BCE official of the Zhou dynasty and the author of the Daode jing (The Book of the Dao and Its Virtue). Thereafter, he gained mythic status as an immortal, a messiah, and a high god of Daoism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yudi, (Chinese: Jade Emperor) Wade-Giles romanization Yü Ti, also called Yuhuang (Jade August One), in Chinese religion, the most revered and popular of Chinese Daoist deities.