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Wu-ch'ang
(Chin., ‘five constants’). The five cardinal virtues in
Confucianism
:
Confucianism
:
(i)
jen
, empathy;
(ii)
i
, propriety;
(iii)
li
, rights and customs observed;
(iv)
chih
, insight, wisdom;
(v)
hsin
, mutual trust. They have their corresponding types of relationship (
wu-lun
), which form the basis of society:
(i) parent and child;
(ii) ruler and subject;
(iii) husband and wife;
(iv) older and younger children;
(v) friend and friend.
Wu-chen Pien
(Treatise on Awakening to Truth)
.
(Treatise on Awakening to Truth)
.
Work of Cheng Po-tuan of the inner elixir school (see
NEI-TAN
). He rejected the outer elixir (
wai-tan
) quest for external means to immortality, contending that all humans contain what is necessary within.
NEI-TAN
). He rejected the outer elixir (
wai-tan
) quest for external means to immortality, contending that all humans contain what is necessary within.
Wu-chi
(Chin., ‘summit of nothingness’). According to Taoists, the primordial, unconfined, limitless source to which all manifestation returns; cf.
FU
.
FU
.
Wu-ch'in-hsi
(Chin., ‘movement of the five animals’).
Taoist
exercises, developed by Hua T'o (2nd/3rd cent. CE), to resist ageing, by adapting the different means through which animals distribute
ch'i
within the body. The five are bear, bird, monkey, stag, tiger.
Taoist
exercises, developed by Hua T'o (2nd/3rd cent. CE), to resist ageing, by adapting the different means through which animals distribute
ch'i
within the body. The five are bear, bird, monkey, stag, tiger.
Wu-chi-t'u
(diagram of emptiness):
(diagram of emptiness):
Wu
’
(minor ablution in Islam):
’(minor ablution in Islam):
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