Links for Daoism

Websites:
• Taoism Information Page (WWWVL)
• Daoist Studies: an excellent scholarly site with useful articles and research tools
  • American Daoist Cultivation: interviews with prominent American practitioners
• Center for Daoist Studies (an excellent, reliable site)
• The Golden Elixir: Taoism and Chinese Alchemy (Fabrizio Pregadio): another excellent site
  • Sample entries from the Encyclopedia of Taoism
• Daoist Iconography Project (University of Hawaii)
• Dao House: compendium of links on many aspects of Taoism; not all of the linked pages are academically reliable
• British Taoist Association
  
• Fifth International Daoist Studies Conference (Wudangshan, China)
• Taoist Restoration Society: This seems to have disappeared. Please contact me if you know anything about it.
  • Interview with Chairman of China Daoist Association (1997)
• Daoist charms

Articles and reference works:
• Daoism bibliography
• Early Daoism: chapter 4 from an online textbook, Topics in Premodern Chinese History, by Gregory Smits -- see also chapter 7, Later Daoism
• Daoist Philosophy (Roger Ames and David Hall)
• Daoist Philosophy (Chad Hansen)
• Laozi translation (Charles Muller)
• Discovery of oldest Laozi text
  • Picture of Guodian Laozi text
  • Picture of Mawangdui Laozi text
• The Texts of Early Heavenly Master Taoism: summaries of conference papers
• "Asceticism in Ch'üan-chen Taoism" (Steve Eskildsen, 1990)
• "Early Quanzhen Daoist Views on the Causes of Disease and Death" (Steve Eskildsen, 1992)
• "Literati Taoism" by Russell Kirkland (short conference paper, 1998)
• Daozang Jiyao Project: ongoing project to catalogue the Daozang Jiyao (Essentials from the Daoist Canon)
  
  

Qin Wenjie speaking with a Daoist monk at Baiyunguan (Beijing)

Temples:
• Baiyunguan (White Cloud Monastery, Beijing)
  • Daoist Faith Statement on the environment
• Wudang shan (reputed birthplace of Taiji quan)
  • Brief history
  • Photographs (Thomas Hahn)
• Painting of Wudang shan temple complex
• Dongyue (Eastern Peak) Temple
  • Dong Yue Temple reopens (NY Times)
• Luo Tian Da Jiao: Video documentary on a 12-day Daoist ritual in Hong Kong (10-minutes) (James Miller)
• Chinese medicine in the U.S. (NY Times)
• Daoist Immortals (Qi magazine)
  
  Daoism and martial arts:
• International Taoist Tai Chi Society
• Hsing Chen School of Internal Martial Arts
• Articles on Chinese Martial Arts by Stanley Henning
  • "Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts" (1999): debunks the myths surrounding martial arts
    
    
Daoist Art
• Taoism and the Arts of China (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • More pictures (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)
• Taoist Paintings of the Mien (Yao) (Brown University)
• Taoist Images
• The Three Purities (highest Daoist gods)
• The Three Star Gods
• Marshal Wen
• The Three Officials
• Daoist Ritual at the Imperial Court
• Qiu Changchun (founder of the Longmen sect)
  
  Popular Daoism:
  
• The Empty Vessel (Daoist magazine)
• Taoist Culture and Information Centre: Based at a Daoist temple in Hong Kong; contains some good material on Daoist concepts, practices, terms, and history, but not from a scholarly perspective.
  
  

Edit date: 4/30/09