Tao-shih

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 219 words | Copyright

Tao-shih. The scholars and ritual functionaries of religious Taoism (tao-chiao). In addition to local congregations, they came to take charge of organized communities, eventually developing monastic rules. See CHANG LU.

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