The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2541 page)

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Tsou Yen
(4th/3rd cent. BCE).
One of the earliest Chinese philosophers to systematize a naturalism based on
yin-yang
—hence the Yin-yang school (or more fully Yin-yang Wu-hsingchia, Yin-yang Five Phases School). Through the interaction of male–female, light–dark, heavy–light, heaven–earth, and other opposites, the T’ai-chi, the primordial foundation, works its way into manifestation by use of the five elements (
wu-hsing
).
Tso-wang
(Chin., ‘sitting forgetting’).
Taoist
technique of meditation in which the mind floats completely free from content and association and is at one with Tao. Its attainment is described in
Chuang-tzu
6. 7.
Tsukimi
(moon festival):
Tsung
(ancestral):
Tsung-chiao
(religion):
Ts’ung-jung Lu
(collection of k
ans):

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