The image of the mother in the Tao Te Ching

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Term papers

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7 pages

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.doc

Published date :

05/01/2009

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Table of Contents The image of the mother in the Tao Te Ching Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The Tao Te Ching
  3. Mother and the feminine in the text
  4. Understanding the mother
  5. Conclusion
  6. Bibliography

Abstract

Western scholarship has traditionally portrayed Chinese cultural as patriarchal and not supportive of women. This perspective often fails to look at ways that the feminine has been acknowledged and honored in major Chinese religious traditions. Kuan Yin, for example, was originally the male bodhisattva of Indian Buddhism, Avalokestesvara. In China she changed gender and became a female bodhisattva in the Buddhist tradition and an Immortal in the Taoist tradition. During a long period of time there were more images of her in Buddhist temples throughout China than any other Buddhist figure.The tao Te ching, the book that contains the basic teachings for the religion of Taoism and sets out the philosophy that has guided millions of practitioners of Taoism in China for more than two millennia, also gives a very prominent role to the feminine in religious practice. This paper will explore how feminine images are portrayed in the tao Te ching and what those images might mean

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