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What is filial piety?
A deep and sincere respect and reverence for one's elder family members
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What is the dao/tao?
It is limitless and unnameable.
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What is karma?
The idea that every act has a good result or a bad result, and these results accumulate .
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What is kami?
The Japanese word for a spirit or deity.
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What is The Analects?
The work containing the core ideas of Confucius.
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What is the uncarved block?
This serves as a Daoist symbol for the natural or original state of something, untouched by the artifice of humankind.
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What is dharma?
Buddhist doctrine or law.
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What is Shinto?
The Japanese religion known as "the way of the kami."
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What is rule by moral suasion.
An ideal ruler should rule not via strict rules but rather via this "trickle down" method.
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Who is Lao Tzu/Laozi?
The supposed founding father of Daoism.
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What is samsara?
The endless cycle of rebirths.
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What is Yin-Yang theory?
The notion, originally from China, that all things have their complementary opposites.
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What is humanity/benevolence/ren?
A core Confucian virtue, it involves acting with inner moral integrity, compassion for others, and sensitivity to others.
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What is the Dao de jing/Tao-te ching?
The most famous Daoist text.
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What is nirvana?
The cessation of existence, the escape from the wheel of existence.
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What is a bhavacakra?
A visual representation of the wheel of cyclic existence.
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What is the dao?
The Chinese term for "the way," for Confucius it is an inherently moral way.
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What is "the weak"?
The dao would rather not choose to label things, but if it had to choose to affiliate with the "strong" or the "weak," which would it affiliate with?
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What is Mahayana Buddhism?
The more popular tradition of Buddhism in East Asia, it allowed for multiple Buddhas and multiple paths to enligthenment.
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What is a bodhisattva?
One who attains enlightenment but decides to remain behind and help others attain enlightenment, too.
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