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Taoist versus Daoist
In most books you will see 'Taoism' because this was the standard in western scholarship (Wade-Giles). More recently the Pinyin system has come to be used academically.
For example, Chuang Tzu becomes Zhuangzi, Lieh Tzu becomes Liezi, etc.
More about this can be found at:
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I sometimes use the two systems interchangably out of habit.
A conversion table can be found at: