What is the Taoist name for laity?

Taoism can call ordinary people benefactors, believers, lay people, good knowledge, great virtue, good faith and so on.

1, donor

Donors, such as monks and Taoists, refer to people who donate money to Buddhist temples or Taoist temples, and refer to believers who send food and clothing to monks or fund the holding of Buddhist ceremonies.

2. Believers

Believers refer to men who believe in Buddhism at home; The Han tablet is known as the "righteous man", which generally means that the money giver avoided Zhao Guangyi, Song Taizong. Taboo, renamed "believers". Later, people who paid for charity because they claimed to believe in Buddhism; An honest and trustworthy person.

3. lay people

Refers to the old monk's collective name for people who enlighten at home; At the same time, this term still pretends to be a scholar. For example, Taoist Li Bai calls himself a violet Buddhist, Su Shi calls himself a Dongpo Buddhist, Tang Yin calls himself a six-elephant Buddhist, and Sun Yue calls himself a bright moon Buddhist.

4. Dade

Morality is noble. The floorboard of noble people, the honorific title of Buddhists for older and respected monks or buddhas and bodhisattvas. Taoist honorific title for people with profound practice and noble moral sentiments.

5. Good knowledge

Good knowledge, an explanation in Buddhism: Sanskrit kalya^n! Pali ·kalya^n· A-Mita Amitra, transliterated as "Kalomi" and "Jiali". Contrary to evil knowledge, it refers to a good person who is honest and virtuous and can teach the right path, that is, a good marriage, but also knowledge, good friends, relatives and friends, good friends and good friends.

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