About dao.jic.io

Dao · Global Daoism Archive (道 · 全球道教资料库) aims to be an open, verifiable and continually updated reference database and research gateway for Daoism, systematically covering eight areas — history, schools, development, distribution, figures, sacred sites, heritage and scriptures — and indexing reliable Daoist research resources across the web.

Editorial principles

• Sources on every entry: each entry lists its references, preferring the standard histories, the Daoist Canon, academic monographs and papers, official information from temples and Daoist associations, and open encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.
• History vs. legend: hagiography and miracle accounts are marked as legend; uncertain dates are marked c. or “?”.
• Scholarly neutrality: no religious advocacy and no value judgements; each lineage's self-description is respected alongside the conclusions of modern scholarship.
• Data-driven: all content is maintained as structured data (site/data/*.js) with unique ids cross-referenced across sections; static pages and the search index are generated automatically.
• Open to expansion: the number and depth of entries keep growing; corrections are welcome.

Principal reference works

• Qing Xitai (ed.), Zhongguo daojiao shi (History of Chinese Daoism, 4 vols.); Ren Jiyu (ed.), Zhongguo daojiao shi; Hu Fuchen (ed.), Zhonghua daojiao da cidian; Daojiao da cidian.
• Kristofer Schipper & Franciscus Verellen (eds.), The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang; Fabrizio Pregadio (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Taoism; Livia Kohn (ed.), Daoism Handbook; Isabelle Robinet, Taoism: Growth of a Religion.
• The Zhengtong Daozang, Wanli xu Daozang, Daozang jiyao, Zhonghua Daozang and Zangwai daoshu; primary-text databases such as the Chinese Text Project, Kanripo and Wikisource.
• Public materials of the Chinese Taoist Association, the Hong Kong Taoist Association, the Taoist Association of the ROC (Taiwan), the Taoist Federation (Singapore) and similar bodies; temple gazetteers and official websites.

Current scope

Periods 14 · Events 179 · Schools 76 · Figures 316 · Sacred sites 562 · Scriptures 234 · Regions 64 · Organizations 71 · Glossary terms 288 · Resources 152.

English text is machine-translated from the Chinese original under a fixed terminology list and then checked; entry names follow Hanyu Pinyin with established English forms where they exist. Please treat the Chinese version as authoritative and report translation errors.

Corrections & contributions

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