Example sentences for: daoist

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

  • Once the site of 72 temples, Laoshan still boasts an interesting temple at its foot on the sea, Xiaqinggong, a Daoist retreat that dates back to 14 b.c.

  • It includes the largest early Daoist hall in China (built in 1179) and is today surrounded by Suzhou’s biggest and liveliest outdoor market.

  • The Southern Heng Mountain (Hengshannan, also called Nanyue), one of China’s Five Sacred Mountains in the ancient Daoist pantheon, is 112 km (70 miles) south of Changsha.

  • Chengdu’s most popular Daoist temple, Qingyanggong (“Green Goat Temple”), is a lively, garish complex where two bronze “good luck” goats at the main altar have been rubbed smooth by worshippers seeking their fortunes.

  • Xi’an’s once-glorious temples were devastated during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), but restorations have led to the reopening of the Lama Temple (Guangrensi), founded in 1705; Woolongsi, an ancient Zen Buddhist temple; Dongyuemiao, a Daoist temple to the mountain god of Taishan; and the Temple of the Eight Immortals (Baxianguan), which is the most active of the city’s religious shrines at present and has an open-air market.


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