Links for Daoism

• 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
• Daoism bibliography
• Dao House: compendium of links on many aspects of Taoism; not all of the linked pages are academically reliable
• British Taoist Association
• 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)

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

• Discovery of oldest Laozi text
• The Texts of Early Heavenly Master Taoism: summaries of conference papers
• Daoist Immortals
• Baiyunguan (White Cloud Monastery, Beijing)
• Wudang shan (reputed birthplace of Taiji chuan)
  • Brief history
  • Photographs (Thomas Hahn)
• Painting of Wudang shan temple complex
• Dongyue (Eastern Peak) Temple
  • Dong Yue Temple reopens (NY Times)
• Chinese medicine in the U.S. (NY Times)
  
  The Empty Vessel (Daoist magazine)
• Taoist Restoration Society: This seems to have disappeared. Please contact me if you know anything about it.
• 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.
• International Taoist Tai Chi Society
• Hsing Chen School of Internal Martial Arts
• Articles on Chinese Martial Arts by Stanely Henning
  

Daoist Art

• Taoism and the Arts of China (Art Institute of Chicago)
• 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)
  
  

Edit date: 9/24/07