RELIGIONS
TAOISTS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Philosophical Taoism
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Religious Taoism
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Taoism (also spelled Daoism) is a religion and a philosophy from ancient China that has influenced folk and national belief. Taoism has been connected to the philosopher Lao Tzu, who around 500 B.C.E. wrote the main book of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Chuang Tzu After the Tao Te Ching, the second most prominent sacred text of Taoism is the Zhuangzi or Chuang Tzu, named for its author “Master Chuang.” His full name was Zhuang Zhou.
Detailed explanation-3: -The second foundational Daoist text is Zhuangzi (Wade-Giles: Chuang Tzu), which is named after the author (as assumed by the present state of philological research) of the first seven chapters of this text, the so-called Inner Chapters, which are also considered as being the philosophical core of the whole book.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Shiji (Records of the Historian) by the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E. –220 C.E.) court scribe and historian Sima Qian (ca. 145–86 B.C.E.) offers a “biography” of Laozi.