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taos and fusion
Title: taos and fusion
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 2128 | Pages: 9.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
taos and fusion
In the view of the Chinese common man, life on earth is but a temporary stop on his journey to death and other reincarnations. Since death is viewed as inexorable and inherent in the human condition, the Chinese accepts it with composure. It was a common custom in China, especially in rural areas, for people to have a coffin ready in their houses as a preparation for death that may come ten or twenty years …showed first 75 words of 2128 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2128 total…explain himself fully on this subject. But such should be his thought. The cult of the dead is, in his eyes, the cult of memory, based upon filial piety and the thought of the continuity of the family and of the race. It is in this spirit that still being practiced by the majority of the Oriental world, for whom it is the main religion and takes the place of all preaching revealed or supernatural.
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