Example sentences for: daoist

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

  • Beijing’s most active Daoist complex, Bai Yun Guan, is better known as White Cloud Temple.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Caves painstakingly cut into the mountainside contain colorful painted carvings, all the work of a single-minded Daoist monk of the 18th century and his followers.

  • The final major pavilion is the Hall of Imperial Peace (Jin An Dian), a Daoist temple to Xuanwu, the God of Fire.


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