Livia Kohn孔丽维

Style & Daoist names

Livia Kohn, Livia Kohn (alternate transliteration)

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1956 — ?

Role

Daoist ScholarsProfessor Emerita, Boston UniversityPublisher

Birthplace

Germany

Life

Livia Kohn, a German-American scholar of Daoism, is professor emerita of religious studies at Boston University and spent many years as a researcher at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, in Japan. She is the most prolific scholar of Daoism in the English-speaking world, with more than fifty books and edited volumes covering Daoist meditation, sitting in oblivion, techniques of longevity, the history of Daoism, and Daoist ethics and views of the body, including Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques (1989), Early Chinese Mysticism, The Taoist Experience (1993), Introducing Daoism, and Sitting in Oblivion. She edited the Daoism Handbook (2000), which brings together surveys by international scholars on every period and topic of Daoism and is one of the most important English-language reference works on Daoism. She founded Three Pines Press and the Journal of Daoist Studies (from 2008), and has long organized international conferences on Daoist studies. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Edited the Daoism Handbook, a core reference work for English-language Daoist studies
• Wrote extensively on Daoist meditation, sitting in oblivion, and techniques of longevity
• Founded Three Pines Press and the Journal of Daoist Studies

Works

• Daoism Handbook (editor)
• Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques
• The Taoist Experience
• Introducing Daoism
• Sitting in Oblivion
• Daoism and Chinese Culture