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Chinese salvationist religions

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Chinese salvationist religions or Chinese folk religious sects are a Chinesereligious tradition characterised by a concern for salvation (moral fulfillment) of the person and the society. They are distinguished by egalitarianism, a founding charismatic person often informed by a divine revelation, a specific theologywritten in holy texts, a millenarian eschatology and a voluntary path of salvation, an embodied experience of the numinous through healing and self-cultivation, and an expansive orientation through evangelism and philanthropy.

Xiantiandao

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

The Xiantiandao is one of the most productive currents of Chinese folk religious sects such as the White Lotus Sect, characterised by representing the principle of divinity as feminine and by a concern for salvation (moral completion) of mankind. Xiantiandao was founded in Jiangxi in the 17th century Qing dynasty as an offshoot of the Venerable Officials’ teaching of fasting (老官齋教; Lǎoguān zhāijiào), a branch of the Dacheng (大乘 “Great Vehicle”) or

Chinese religions of fasting

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

The Chinese religions of fasting (simplified Chinese: 斋教; traditional Chinese: 齋教; pinyin: zhāijiāo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chai-kàu) are a subgroup of the Chinese salvationist religions. Their name refers to the strict vegetarian fasting diet that believers follow. This subgroup originated as the Lǎoguān zhāijiào (老官齋教 “Venerable Officials’ teaching of fasting”) sect that departed from the eastern “Great Vehicle” proliferation of Luoism in the 16th century and adopted features of the White Lotus tradition. The Chinese religions

Chinese ritual mastery traditions

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Chinese ritual mastery traditions, also referred to as ritual teachings(Chinese: 法教; pinyin: fǎjiào, sometimes rendered as “Faism”), or Folk Taoism (民间道教; Mínjiàn Dàojiào), or also Red Taoism (mostly in east China and Taiwan), constitute a large group of Chinese orders of ritual officers who operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside the institutions of official Taoism. The “masters of rites”, the fashi (法師), are also known in east China as hongtou daoshi (紅頭道士), meaning “redhead” or

Chinese gods and immortals

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Chinese traditional religion is polytheistic; many deities are worshipped in a pantheistic view where divinity is inherent in the world. The gods are energies or principles revealing, imitating and propagating the way of Heaven (Tian 天), which is the supreme godhead manifesting in the northern culmen of the starry vault of the skies and its order. Many gods are ancestors or men who

Strangling

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging causes death (alongside breaking the victim’s neck). Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in the choking game,

Yang Xuanzhi

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Yang Xuanzhi (Chinese: 楊衒之) was a Chinese writer and translator of Mahayana Buddhist texts into the Chinese language, during the 6th century, under the Northern Wei Dynasty. Yang wrote “The Monasteries of Luoyang” (Chinese: 洛陽伽藍記; pinyin: Luòyáng Qiélánjì; Wade–Giles: Luo-yang Chia-lan ji) in 547. This text relates the introduction of Buddhism to China around 70 CE: The establishment of the Baima Temple (Temple of the White Horse) by Emperor

Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction is a Chinese languagetext written by Daoxuan in the early Tang Dynasty. It described a design for Buddhist temples influenced by mainstream Chinese architecture, and based upon a traditional layout composed of multiple, related courtyards. This architectural tradition can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Chinese folk religion

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

Chinese folk religion, also known as popular religion, is a polyphyletic term used to describe the diversity of practices in areas generally termed “religion”, of persons of Chinese heritage, including the Chinese diaspora. Vivienne Wee described it as “an empty bowl, which can variously be filled with the contents of institutionalized religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the Chinese syncretic religions.” This may include

Spire

May 22, 2021KuchewarEncyclopedia

A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires are typically built of stonework or brickwork, or else of timber structure with metal cladding, ceramic tiling, shingles, or slates on the exterior. Since towers supporting