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| Enlightened being who vows to remain in this world to help others reach enlightenment. |
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| Most popular deity of Taiwan, deity of seafarers |
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| Three Teachings––Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism |
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| God of War and Business, the former Guan Yu |
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| Loyalty, a Confucian virtue |
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| Essence, one of the three fundamental forms of qi in the Daoist conception of the body. |
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Principle, order
Ritual, ritual propriety |
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| Daoist classic attributed to the mythical Laozi |
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| The second major text in classical Daoism, named after its main author, Zhaung Zhou. |
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| Psycho-physical-spiritual substance, the stuff of which all existing things are composed. |
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| An "awakened one", either the historical Sakyamuni Buddha or one of many others in Mahayana Buddhism. |
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| The Buddhist community of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen. |
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| One of the new schools of Chinese Buddhism (Japanese Zen) |
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| "Heaven and humanity are one," a Chinese proverb. |
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| A way of thinking, characteristic of Chinese thought, in which differences are real but are parts of a more fundamental unity. |
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| Obtaining answers to specific questions through non-empirical means, for example from gods or ancestors. |
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| City god in popular religion. |
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| Public, official, duke, god. |
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| Mandate of Heaven in Confucianism |
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Moral power/potential in Confucianism.
The power inherent in things in Daoism. |
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| Classic of Filiality, an influential Confucian virtue. |
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| To oppose, argue, contend. |
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| "Dark-light", passive-active, contracting-expanding, a basic principle in Chinese thought. |
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| Heaven trigram/hexagram of the Yijing. |
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| Earth trigram/hexagram of the Yijing |
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| Five Phases (water, fire, wood, earth, and metal) in Chinese cosmology. |
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| Early Chinese conception of the afterlife. |
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| The Daoist religion, or ecclesiastical Daoism. |
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| "No doing" ; absence of no deliberate, goal-directed action. |
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| "Fasting of the mind," a practice recommended by Zhuangzi |
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| sitting and forgetting, a form of meditation recommended by Zhuangzi. |
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| Analects of Confucius, one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism. |
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| Humanity/humaneness, the cardinal virtue in Confucianism. |
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| "Superior Person" in Confucianism |
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| Filial devotion, a Confucian virtue |
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| Reciprocity, a Confucian virtue |
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| Five Classics in Confucianism |
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| Classic of Change, one of the Five Confucian Classics, also used in Daoism |
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| Classic of Odes, one of the Five Confucian Classics. |
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| Classic of Documents, one of the Five Confucian Classics. |
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| Spring and Autumn Annals, one of the Five Confucian Classics. |
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| Record of Ritual, one of the Five Confucian Classics. |
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| Mencius, one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism |
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| Centrality and Commonality (or The Mean), one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism. |
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