...Joseph S. Alter On one level, and with reference to a specific frame of reference, embodied forms of practice that have come to be associated with Yoga and Taoist philosophy appear to be very similar if not identical in terms of form, structure, and purpose. However, there is no clear-cut history...

...- veloped, using medieval European techniques, cal implications of the views of the Buddhists, David N. Lorenzen his own style of memory training. He used his the Taoists, the Confucians...

... Chinese wise men, probably Taoists. ibex, and boar). On closer examination the The respect for living creatures and the absti- preaching fi gure is not the Buddha, as he wears nence from eating meat was a common tenet of a pointed beard and executes not a Buddhist Buddhism and Manichaeism. mudra...

... jie- counties. For details, see K. Dean, Taoist Ritual and Pop- dou de yanbian,” Zhongguo shehui jingji shi yanjiu, ular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton, NJ: Princeton no. 1 (1998): 16 – 23. Zheng has argued...