Lebell

rsl12,

Religious taoism combined aspects of confucianism, including ancestor worship to create a kind of "hybrid" religion, much as Buddhism picked up aspects of the local religions as it moved Eastward (contrast "pure land" Buddhism w/ Theravada Buddhism for example).

I know this because I had to do a paper on it.

(I'll send you a copy if you want )


Edit to add:

I don't think many westerners practice ancestor worship, I'm just saying that in the east you can find it and that there are definitely philosophical and religious versions of Taoism.

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