Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao 道 (pinyin: dào; Wade–Giles: tao ). With a range of meaning in Chinese philosophy, translations of T… 展开

"Tao" and "Dao" are different romanized spellings of the same Chinese word: 道.
• "Tao" is the romanized spelling in the Wade-Giles system, which was predominant in English-speaking countries until the late 20t… 展开

Scholars like Harold Roth argue that early Taoism was a series of "inner-cultivation lineages" of master-disciple communities, emphasizing a contentless and nonconceptual apophatic meditation as a way of achievin… 展开

Tao (or Dao) can mean way, road, channel, path, doctrine, or line. The Tao is a natural order that enables all things to exist and dominate every action, not so much through force as through a natural curvature of spa… 展开