Stephen Eskildsen艾思柯

Style & Daoist names

Stephen Eskildsen

Period

Contemporary

Dates

? — ?

Role

Daoist Scholars

Birthplace

United States

Life

Stephen Eskildsen, an American scholar of Daoism, is a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, studying Daoist practice, asceticism and internal alchemy. He has written Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion (1998), The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters (2004, an important English-language monograph on the practices of early Quanzhen Daoism), and Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity (2015). The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Studied asceticism in early Daoism and the practices of Quanzhen Daoism
• Studied Daoist meditation and bodily and spiritual experience
• Systematically introduced the teaching texts of the Seven Perfected of Quanzhen to English readers

Works

• Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion
• The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters
• Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity