MONDAY- TEST
TUESDAY- TEST
WEDNESDAY- ROME, PROJECT INTRODUCTION
Thursday- notes
Geography
Mountains- Alpine
River Tiber
Advantages
Close to mediterranean Sea
Alps and Apennines Mountain ranges helped to protect farm
Located next to the Tiber river
Contained large plains making it easy to farm
Position made it easier for rome to conquer other lands and gain new territory.
PROJECT
Q- 4&5
4. Major people involved in the religion
Laozi
First philosopher of Chinese Taoism in the 6th century BC
May have been a caretaker of sacred books at the royal court of the Zhou Dynasty
Legend- He was carried for 72 years in his mother womb
Zhuangzi
Said to have lived as a hermit Zhuangzi emphasizes the reality of all ideas and conversations that are the basis of judgments and distinctions, he put forward as the solution to the problems are Tao, or principle of nature.
Chuang-Tzu a collection of essays was contributed to him
Liezi
Author of the Taoist classic Liezi
There is little evidence of him being a Hundred Schools of Thought philosopher
Some believed that Zhuangzi invented him as a Taoist exemplar
Zhang Jiao
Said to be some great sourcer
Lead a campaign called “The Way to Heaven.
Lead the Yellow Turban Rebellion- they rebelled against the Han because of high taxes
Zhang Daoling
Founder of first patriarch of organized religious Taoism
Created a Taoist work that attracted many followers
He promised longevity and physical immortality, he also emphasised the importance of religious Ma organization.
Wang Bi
Philosopher
Commentaries on Laozi's Daodejing and the Yijing
Ge Hong
Chinese alchemist and Taoist philosopher
Confucian education but later became a part of the Taoist cult of physical immortality
Zhang San Feng
Semi-mythical Chinese Taoist priest
Believed by some to have achieved immortality
Legendary cultural hero
Originated the concepts of neijia; soft, internal martial arts
Qiu Chuji
Taoist and alchemist
Disciple was Li Zhichang
Member of the Quanzhen sect known for its extreme asceticism and for the doctrine of xingming
Xingming- held that humanity's lost natural state could be recovered through prescribed practices
5. Major groups/sects within the religious group
Classical Taoism
Huang-Lao Taoism
Short lived form of Taoism
Mixed Taoist thought with political philosophy and the study of how different elements and dynamic phases resonate and correspond with one another
Lao- Chuang Tradition
Authors and their text from the Hundred School Period (6th-3rd centuries BCE)
Main authors included- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Yang Chu
Medieval Taoist Communities
The way of the Celestial Masters
Communal organization formed in the 2nd century
Forerunner to Orthodox Unity Taoism
marked the beginning of the history of Taoism as a actual lived tradition (instead of being a collection of text)
The Great Purity (Ta-ch’ing)
Early Taoist self-cultivation group
Among the first practitioners of alchemy (the laboratory preparation of physically and spiritually transformative elixirs)
Highest Purity Taoism (Shang-ch’ing)
Aristocratic self- cultivation group
Originated in the 4th century
Practitioners were inspired by years of revelations from Lord Lao
Numinous Treasure Taoism (Ling-pao)
Group emphasized physical and spiritual cultivation
Originated in the 4th and 5th centuries
Build on earlier revelations
Introduced secretive rituals
Contemporary Taoist Lineages- there were many short lived sectors that developed into two main lineages of Taoism. They continue in China today
Orthodox Unity Taoism
Primarily the liturgical branch of Taoism
Traces its line back to the Way of the Celestial Masters
Really flourishes mainly in Taiwan and southern China
Priest marry and have children
Complete Perfection Taoism
Primarily monastic branch of Taoism
More recently established (in the 12th century)
Flourishes mainly in northern China
Vegetarian, celibate priests living in monasteries and abbeys
- Friday- work day
Comments
Good job but you didn't do the week of Oct. 17-20.