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The Tao
Comparison Essay # 18465
The Tao
Examines Taoist concept & significance of "The Way". Absolute v. relative Tao, will of God, transcendence of Taoist approach to reality, compared to void of Mahayana Buddhism.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages) |
3 sources |
1990
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"This study will examine the Taoist concept of the Tao. It will also explore the nature of the distinction between the absolute Tao and the relative Tao. In addition, the study will finally discuss how the idea of the Tao compares to the void of Mahayana Buddhism.The word "Tao" is so important to the practice of Taoism that, as Thompson writes, "Translators have . . . felt it best to leave it in transliterated form. Key terms in any great tradition are inevitably distorted or even falsified by translation, and can be grasped in something like their true significance only by seeing their operation in many concepts. In studying Buddhism, for example, such words as nirvana and sunyata are rightly considered as technical terms and customarily left untranslated. This may well be the best way to treat Tao"
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