Example sentences for: daoism

How can you use “daoism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the rear of the complex there is a large rock garden, a courtyard, and classrooms where many novice monks are trained in Daoism.

  • As China’s leading indigenous religion, Daoism differs from Buddhism (transplanted from India) not so much in the architecture of its temples and the art of its statuary (these are often quite similar in style) as in its practices and beliefs.

  • Daoism emphasized nature, the individual, and the Way, but in its organized form it relies on a huge pantheon of gods, goddesses, and supernatural icons promising miracles.

  • With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (“the knowledge which is not knowledge”), and the cosmic flow known as “the Way,” Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.

  • Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (“The Way and Its Power”), which became the major text of China’s greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).


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