Daoist literature and poetry, immortality writing, painting and iconography, architecture and gardens, music and theatre, and contemporary media.
财神随华人移民出海，在不同社会走出了完全不同的轨迹。东南亚的宗教实践最厚：新加坡有以财神为主神的三巴旺财神庙与韭菜芭城隍庙的子时接财神科仪；马来西亚的财神香火与「大伯公」信仰互相渗透，新山柔佛古庙的琼帮赵大元帅是财神进入帮群共同体的例证。泰国把「财神爷」按潮州音读作 ไฉ่ซิงเอี๊ย，完全溢出华人圈成为全民求财的顶流神祇。在地化最深…
In December, UNESCO inscribed the Ancient Building Complex on the Wudang Mountains on the World Heritage List, making it the first Daoist architectural complex to become …
To commemorate Lü Dongbin, the Quanzhen order began building the Da Chunyang Wanshou Gong at Yongle Town, Ruicheng, Shanxi — Lü's native place — starting in 1247. Murals …
Bai Yuchan, originally surnamed Ge, given name Changgeng, whose ancestral home was Minqing, Fujian, was born in Qiongzhou. Renowned as a child prodigy, he later abandoned…
Chen Jinggu, a native of Fuzhou, is one of the most important female deities of the Fujian–Taiwan region, honored with the titles Linshui furen (Lady of Linshui) and Shun…
Du Guangting, courtesy name Binsheng, styled Dongyingzi, was a celebrated Daoist priest and scholar of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, a native of Jinyun. He sat for th…
Franciscus Verellen, a German-born French sinologist, is a researcher at the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), where he served as director from 2004 to 2014, and i…
Fu Qinjia was a scholar of the Republican era, of whom very little biographical information survives. His work History of Chinese Daoism (Zhongguo daojiao shi, The Commer…
He Zhizhang, courtesy name Jizhen, in his later years styled himself "Mad Guest of Siming," was a Tang-dynasty poet who placed first in the palace examination in the firs…
Henri Maspero, a French sinologist and professor at the Collège de France, was a founder of Daoist studies in Europe. The son of the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, he worke…
Ji Zhizhen, a native of Lintong in Shaanxi, was a Yuan-dynasty Quanzhen priest who came from a Confucian family and was broadly learned in the classics and histories; he …
Lai Chi-tim is a Hong Kong scholar of Daoism, professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and founding director …
Lee Fong-mao is a Taiwanese scholar of Daoism, chair professor at the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University, and research fellow (emeritus…
Li Bai, courtesy name Taibai, styled himself the "Green Lotus Lay Practitioner" (Qinglian Jushi), was a poet of the High Tang whose ties to Daoism ran deep. As a boy in S…
Lin Lingzhen, personal name Weifu, courtesy name Junzhao, sobriquet Lingzhen, was a native of Pingyang in Wenzhou. In his youth he studied for the civil examinations, but…
Lü Dongbin, personal name Yan, courtesy name Dongbin, styled Chunyangzi, is the patriarch venerated by the Zhong–Lü school of Daoist internal alchemy, the most influentia…
Ma Yu, a native of Ninghai, Shandong, born into great wealth, took Wang Chongyang as his teacher in 1167 together with his wife Sun Bu'er, and stands foremost among the S…
Shi Jianwu, courtesy name Xisheng, styled himself Dongzhai, and after taking up Daoist practice styled himself Qizhenzi, was a Tang-dynasty poet and Daoist priest. He pas…
Tao Hongjing, style name Tongming, self-styled the Hermit of Huayang, was a Daoist priest and scholar active between the Southern Qi and Liang dynasties, and the great sy…
Wang Chongyang, founder of Quanzhen Daoism. Born into a wealthy family in Guanzhong, he sat for both the civil and military examinations in his early years but failed to …
Wu Quanjie, a native of Raozhou, Jiangxi, was the second Grand Master (Dazongshi) of Xuanjiao (the Mysterious Teaching) in the Yuan dynasty. As a youth he entered Mount L…
Wu Yun, courtesy name Zhenjie, was a Tang-dynasty Daoist priest and man of letters. In his youth he was well versed in the classics and histories and skilled in compositi…
Ye Jingneng, a Daoist priest of the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, a native of Kuozhou, granduncle (some say uncle) of Ye Fashan. He won the favor of Zhongzong and E…
Zhu Di, the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming, became the third Ming emperor after seizing the throne in the Jingnan campaign, and reigned under the era name Y…
Zhan Shichuang, a native of Xiamen, Fujian, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Daoist and Religious Culture, Sichuan University, and formerly a pr…
Zhang Bao, younger brother of Zhang Jiao, was one of the leaders of the Way of Great Peace, styling himself "General of Earth" during the Yellow Turban Rebellion. In the …
Zhang Junfang, style name Yunfang (also given as Yinfang), was the compiler of the Northern Song Daoist Canon. He passed the jinshi examination in the second year of the …
Zhang Yuchu, the forty-third-generation Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, was the most learned of the Ming Celestial Masters, succeeding to the office in the eleventh yea…
Zhao Youqin, styled Yuanduzi, was a native of Poyang in Jiangxi (he claimed descent from the Song imperial house) and a celebrated scientist and Daoist priest of the Yuan…
Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming, was enfeoffed Prince of Ning and first garrisoned at Daning; after the Jingnan campaign the Yongle Emperor tr…
Founded in 2001, with Ng Peng-chi as president, it is dedicated to the preservation and transmission of Macau Daoist ritual music (inscribed on the National Intangible Cu…
Built in Yokohama Chinatown in 1862, enshrining Guandi, it has been rebuilt several times after being destroyed by earthquakes and war (the current, fourth-generation bui…
The provincial organization for Daoism in Jiangsu, headquartered in Nanjing, it oversees Zhengyi and Quanzhen temples such as the Maoshan Daoist Institute, Xuanmiao Templ…
A branch temple established in San Francisco by the Ching Chung Koon of Hong Kong, enshrining Patriarch Lü, one of the representative Chinese Quanzhen Daoist temples in N…
Built in 1972 on Beverly Hills by Chinese merchants of Cebu, enshrining Laozi and other deities, it is a landmark building of Daoism in the Philippines and a site where l…
A local Daoist organization managing temples on Wudang Mountains such as Zixiao Palace, Taihe Palace, and Nanyan Palace, founded around 1984, it runs the Wudang Mountains…
Ming Daoism, under state administration, continued the twofold "Zhengyi–Quanzhen" configuration, with Zhengyi more heavily relied upon by the court for its expertise in l…
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Daoism underwent reorganization amid land reform and shifting religious policy: temple lands were confiscated or red…
BBC documentaries on China frequently include segments touching on Daoism, the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and famous Daoist mountains (such as the series The Story…
A number of temples and Taoist associations maintain official accounts on Bilibili that post ritual protocols, scripture chanting, lectures, and documentaries, such as th…
A collection guide to the British Library's holdings of Stein Dunhuang manuscripts (Or.8210/S. shelfmarks), with images provided mainly through IDP. The Daoist material i…
A series of Daoism-themed documentaries produced by CCTV and various provincial broadcasters, such as Questioning the Dao at Louguan, A Thousand Years of Daoism, and Chin…
A multi-episode documentary produced by China Central Television, recounting the Daoist history of the Wudang Mountains, the construction of its temple complex during the…
A platform for Daoist studies under the Department of Philosophy in the College of Humanities at Xiamen University, led by scholars such as Zhan Shichuang, which edits th…
The study of Daoist iconography is currently scattered across a number of projects and publications: Shih-shan Susan Huang's Picturing the True Form systematically survey…
The Dictionary of Daoist Culture, edited by Zhang Zhizhe, published by Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House in 1994, focusing on various aspects of Daoist culture (lite…
The Department of Chinese Literature at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan has a track in religion and cultural studies; its scholars have long worked on Tainan Dao…
The Gallica digital platform of the Bibliothèque nationale de France makes public the complete high-resolution images of the Dunhuang manuscripts acquired by Paul Pelliot…
In collaboration with the National Library of China, the Harvard-Yenching Library has digitized its entire collection of Chinese rare books and made them openly browsable…
The Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has had several scholars engaged in Daoist studies (such as the South China religious his…
The Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica is one of the major centers of Daoist studies in Taiwan; scholars such as Lee Fong-mao and Liao Chao…
A database of Dunhuang and Silk Road manuscripts led by the British Library in collaboration with institutions in multiple countries, bringing together high-resolution im…
An image database of rare Chinese-text editions made public by the Institute for Research in Humanities of Kyoto University, holding scattered titles from the Daoist Cano…
The Musée Guimet in Paris holds the Dunhuang silk paintings and Daoist artefacts brought back by Paul Pelliot, along with Ming and Qing Daoist deity images and ritual imp…
The rare-book image search system of the National Central Library, Taiwan, holds fragments of the Ming Daozang, Qing-dynasty Daoist morality books, the Daozang jiyao, and…
An Asian art museum of the Smithsonian Institution, holding fragments of Yuan-dynasty Daoist murals, paintings of Daoist immortals, and Daoist artifacts; its collections …
The National Palace Museum, Taipei, holds a large number of Daoist-related paintings and calligraphy (such as Daoist Immortals, copies of the Procession of Immortals Payi…
The Shanghai Museum holds Daoist paintings, bronze mirrors, sculpture, and Ming–Qing Daoist texts, and has held exhibitions related to Daoist art; its official website pr…
A Daoist college founded in 1986 under the Shanghai Taoist Association, training Zhengyi priests and administrative personnel; it offers courses in liturgical chanting, D…
The British Museum holds Dunhuang silk paintings brought back by Aurel Stein, Ming-dynasty Daoist deity images and ritual implements, and Daoist prints, among others; its…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds numerous treasures of Daoist art, including a Yuan-dynasty mural in the style of Yongle Palace, the Chaoyuan Tu, Ming-dynasty Daoist …
The Palace Museum holds Ming and Qing court Daoist artifacts, including the image of Zhenwu in the Hall of Imperial Peace (Qin'an Dian), Daoist ritual implements, a Ming-…
The Chinese philosophy programme in the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University in Japan has historically included scholars such as Kanaya Osamu and Miur…
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tōbunken) at the University of Tokyo holds rich collections of Chinese texts; its scholars research Daoism and Chinese popular…
An image database of rare Chinese-text editions made public by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, including Ming- and Qing-dynasty printed e…
The Oriental Philosophy programme in the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University; scholars such as Fukui Fumimasa and Mori Yuria have researched Daoist…
The English Wikipedia's article on Taoism and its associated series of articles on Daoist schools, scriptures, figures, and deities frequently cite the works of scholars …
Yale's Department of Religious Studies has a track in East Asian religions; historically scholars such as Kang-i Sun Chang have taken an interest in Daoist literature, th…
The Bidong Branch, in full the "Dantai Bidong Zong," is a branch of the Longmen Lineage of Quanzhen that emerged in Sichuan, and has been the main current of Daoism in th…
The Cult of Wenchang Dijun is the worship, within Daoism, of the deity who presides over civil office and emolument, formed by the merging of two strands: one is the loca…
Daoism in Taiwan is composed mainly of the system of married (huoju) Zhengyi Daoist priests brought by Hokkien and Cantonese emigrants during the Ming and Qing, and Taiwa…
Daoism in Hong Kong and Macau consists mainly of Daoist halls (daotan), temples, and married (huoju) Zhengyi Daoist priests who arrived from Guangdong from the late Qing …
Folk Daoist Ritual Traditions (Minjian Daofa, also called Fajiao or Shijiao in scholarship) is a collective term for the many ritual-master (fashi) systems that formed fr…
The Jinshan Lineage is a branch that split off from the Quanzhen Longmen lineage in the Ming, centered on Mount Lao (Laoshan), named for its founding patriarch Sun Xuanqi…
The Lü Dongbin cult refers to the worship and ritual tradition centered on Lü Dongbin (given name Yan, courtesy name Dongbin, style Chunyangzi), the most widely dissemina…
The Lüshan (Mount Lü) Ritual Tradition is a popular tradition of Daoist ritual practice current in Fujian and the surrounding regions, in Taiwan, and among Fujianese comm…
The Maoshan Lineage is the sectarian institution that the Shangqing School developed after the Southern Dynasties, centered on Mount Mao (Maoshan) as its ancestral court;…
The Meishan Ritual Tradition is a folk Daoist ritual tradition that originated in the ancient Meishan region of central Hunan (roughly today's Xinhua and Anhua), practice…
Nanyue (Mount Heng) Daoism refers to the regional Daoist tradition formed around Mount Heng (Hengshan) in Hunan. Mount Heng is the Southern Peak among the Five Great Peak…
The Qionglong Mountain Lineage is a Daoist school founded in the early Qing by Shi Daoyuan in Suzhou, named after its ancestral court, Shangzhen Temple on Mount Qionglong…
Daoism was never transmitted to Japan as an organized religious order, but from ancient times its ideas, deities, and techniques were transmitted in great volume via the …
Vietnam has been under Daoist influence since the Han dynasty, when it belonged to Jiaozhi Commandery, and it is one of the regions within the Sinitic cultural sphere whe…
The Sannai (Three Ladies) Branch of Lüshan is a division of the Lüshan tradition whose patriarchs are the "Three Lady Sovereigns" — Chen Jinggu (Lady Chen), Lin Jiuniang …
Wudang Daoism refers to the Daoist tradition centered on Mount Wudang in Hubei and on the cult of Zhenwu (the Dark Emperor of Heaven); historically it was not a single sc…
The Xuanwu Lineage is a branch within the resident Daoist orders of the Wudang Mountains that possesses a complete generational-name genealogy; it takes its name from its…
Yao Daoism refers to the form of Daoism believed in and transmitted by the Yao people (particularly the various branches of the Guoshan Yao and the Panyao). From the Song…
The A-Ma Temple is Macau's oldest surviving temple and the one whose original structures have stood the longest, dedicated primarily to Mazu (Tianhou). Its founding date …
After the Arrow River gold rush subsided in 1865, the Otago Provincial Council recruited Chinese miners from the Victorian goldfields to continue mining, and the Arrowtow…
The Art Institute of Chicago was established in 1879, and holds about 35,000 works of Asian art spanning nearly five thousand years, encompassing China, Korea, Japan, Ind…
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco was established in 1966; its full name includes the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture. Its holdings exceed 20,000 obje…
The Asociación China de Mexicali was established in 1919, the core umbrella association of the local Chinese community, brought about through the joint effort of existing…
The Asociación Chung Shan de Baja California, Mexicali, was founded in 1915 as a native-place organization for immigrants from Xiangshan (Zhongshan), Guangdong — four yea…
Auburn lies within California's Mother Lode gold-mining region, where Chinese miners settled in the nineteenth century. The surviving temple was built in 1909, and was re…
The Barrio Chino de La Habana is the oldest Chinatown in the Caribbean, at its height spanning some forty-five city blocks and combining residences, businesses, associati…
Mexico City's Chinatown (Barrio Chino) is centered on Calle Dolores and covers only two blocks, far smaller in scale than Mexicali's La Chinesca; it took shape in the ear…
Beiyue Temple at Quyang was the officially sanctioned temple where the god of Mount Heng, the Northern Peak, was sacrificed to by successive dynasties before the Shunzhi …
The Bendigo Joss House Temple opened in 1871, dedicated primarily to Guandi, regarded as a wise judge, guide, protector, and bringer of wealth. It was built of locally ha…
Bing Kung Tong is one of the major tongs in North America. Its Seattle branch dedicated a new shrine in 1917 in its meeting hall at Eighth Avenue and King Street; at the …
Bixia Temple, atop Mount Tai, is the ancestral shrine for the worship of Bixia Yuanjun (popularly known as the Lady of Mount Tai or Old Granny of Mount Tai), and one of t…
Boen Bio was founded in 1883 and relocated to its present site in 1907; it is the most important surviving Confucian temple in Indonesia and one of the central sites of I…
Boen Tek Bio (Hokkien pronunciation, meaning "Temple of Literature and Virtue") is the oldest Chinese temple in Tangerang. Its founding is generally given as 1684, and th…
Bok Kai Temple is the only Chinese temple in the United States that has remained on its original site, was first built in the nineteenth century, and is still in use toda…
Butte was the largest copper-mining city in Montana in the late nineteenth century, and its Chinese community ranked among the largest of the interior mountain states, wi…
The Lung Kong Cun Sol (in Cuba, Casa Abuelo Lung Kong) is a clan federation uniting the four surnames Liu, Guan, Zhang, and Zhao, taking its meaning from the Peach Garden…
The Casino Chung Wah is the highest umbrella organization of Cuba's Chinese community, uniting the various native-place associations, clan associations, and lodges; it on…
Cebu Taoist Temple was built in 1972, funded by Cebu's Chinese-Filipino community, on the high ground of the Beverly Hills subdivision overlooking downtown Cebu City; it …
The Centre Guan Di at Terre-Sainte was completed in 2017 on the heights of Terre-Sainte in the town of Saint-Pierre, a recently built religious site of Réunion's Chinese …
The Chan She Shu Yuen Clan Ancestral Hall is the ancestral hall of the Cantonese Chan (Chan, Tan and Chen — a union of three related surnames) clan of Kuala Lumpur, propo…
Changchun Temple is the largest Quanzhen Daoist temple in the middle reaches of the Yangzi; tradition holds that a disciple of Qiu Chuji of the Yuan propagated the Dao in…
Chaotian Palace stands on Mount Ye west of the old city of Nanjing; tradition holds that King Fuchai of Wu cast metal here during the Spring and Autumn period. The Easter…
The Chaoyuan Tu is painted on the four walls of the Sanqing Hall at Yongle Gong, completed in the second year of the Taiding era of the Yuan (1325); it depicts a grand pr…
The Wailuku Chee Kung Tong was built in 1904, one of the six original Chinese association halls on Maui. The lintel bears the inscription 'Chee Kung Tong Hall,' with 'Equ…
The Chee Ying Society is located in the sugarcane district of Honokaa on the north coast of the island of Hawaiʻi, and is a branch organization of the Pacific network of …
Fiji's Chinese population numbers about 7,500, some 1.2 percent of the national population; roughly eighty percent speak Cantonese as their mother tongue, with another si…
The Chinese Benevolent Association of Jamaica was founded in 1891 and is the core institution of Jamaica's Chinese community; it went on to establish a Chinese sanatorium…
The Chinese community of Madagascar numbers roughly 70,000 to 100,000 (2011 estimate), the third-largest Chinese community in Africa. The first documented Chinese immigra…
The history of the Chinese in South Africa can be traced back to convicts exiled to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company from Batavia in the 1660s, yet from 1660 unti…
The building of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), Portland, was built in 1911 with funds raised by the local Chinese community, and is one of the be…
The Evanston Chinese Joss House was originally built in 1874 to serve the Chinese community that had settled in Uinta County on account of the Union Pacific Railroad and …
The Chinese Masonic Hall of Boise stood at the corner of Seventh Street and Front Street, with a temple inside the hall; its principal deity was a bronze image referred t…
Darwin's Chinese community was made up mostly of Cantonese laborers who came to work the goldfields and railway construction of the Northern Territory in the late ninetee…
Ching Chung Koon is one of the three great Daoist halls (daotang) of Hong Kong, belonging to the Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen Daoism, tracing its origin to t…
The founding date of the Chong Wa Benevolent Association in Seattle is generally given as ‘about 1900’ or as its 1910 incorporation, but account books from the renchen (1…
The Chong Wen Ge was built in 1849 beside the Thian Hock Keng and was one of the earliest institutions of Chinese-language education in Singapore, proposed for constructi…
Chongxu Ancient Temple originated as the Duxu Hermitage built by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin, the foremost of the four hermitages of Mount Luofu; Ge Hong compounded elixir…
Choong Yee Thong Church stands at 19 Meredith Street, established in 1920; the building originally housed a Chinese-language school, and a temple was later set up on its …
Chow Sue Kong Shrine was founded in 1804 on the initiative of a wealthy merchant of the Su clan from Quanzhou, and is dedicated chiefly to Master Qingshui (清水祖师, the "Pat…
The Chung Wah Association of Western Australia was founded in 1909 and formally registered in 1910, the first ethnic community organization in Western Australia, establis…
Chunyang Palace in Taiyuan, popularly known as the Lüzu Temple, is dedicated to Lü Dongbin. It was first built in the Yuan dynasty (some say the Song), rebuilt in the 25t…
Chunyang Temple stands at Shuzhu Hill in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, founded in the fourth year of the Daoguang era of the Qing (1824) by the Quanzhen priest and astronom…
Dagaoxuan Hall was an imperial Daoist temple of the Ming and Qing dynasties, built in the 21st year of the Jiajing era of the Ming (1542) by Emperor Shizong for the perfo…
Dai Temple is the principal shrine for the sacrifice to the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak (the god of Mount Tai), the site where successive emperors held the grand Fe…
The DalongDong Baoan Temple was founded in the seventh year of the Qianlong era of Qing (1742) by immigrants from Tongan, Quanzhou; its cult derives from the Baijiao Ciji…
The Daoist Culture Centre Database of Fung Ying Seen Koon was established in 1999, and is the largest project of digital Daoist textual resources and knowledge in the Chi…
The US Daoist Foundation was founded in September 2007 by the Daoist studies scholar Louis Komjathy (Kang Sixi) and Kate Townsend, registered as a 501(c)(3) religious and…
Dongmyo (Eastern Guan Yu Shrine, in full the Eastern Shrine to the King Guan) was begun in 1599 and completed in 1601; it enshrines Guan Yu as its principal deity (honore…
Donghua Miao (the Eastern Glory Temple) is the only nineteenth-century urban great temple in North America documented to have enshrined Xuantian Shangdi (Beidi, the North…
The Erwang Temple (Temple of the Two Kings) stands at the foot of Yulei Mountain at the head of the Dujiangyan irrigation system, enshrining Li Bing, governor of Shu unde…
The cult of the 'Two Immortals' (Erxian) is widespread in the Shangdang region of southeastern Shanxi; tradition holds that the two daughters of the Yue family attained t…
The Foshan Ancestral Temple was founded during the Yuanfeng era of the Northern Song, enshrining Zhenwu Xuantian Shangdi of the North (popularly called the Northern Emper…
The Fuk Tak Chi Temple (Temple of Prosperity and Virtue) was jointly founded by Cantonese and Hakka immigrants and is one of the earliest Chinese temples in Singapore. 'H…
Fung Ying Seen Koon is located in Fanling, New Territories, founded in 1929 by Daoist masters He Jinyu, Chen Luankai, and others who had come south from the Sanyuan Gong …
Fuxing Temple stands atop Yuhuang Hill on the southern shore of West Lake; tradition holds that a king of Wuyue of the Five Dynasties built Ashoka Temple here; the Song c…
复真观俗称太子坡，依真武圣传而建：净乐国太子十五岁受紫气元君点化入武当修炼，最初居此山坡，故名「太子坡」；太子一度灰心下山，途中受「铁杵磨针」点化复回山修真，观因名「复真」。观依狮子峰陡坡而建，布局因山就势，以「一里四道门」「九曲黄河墙」（红色夹墙复道弯曲如波）、「一柱十二梁」（五云楼顶层一柱承十二梁枋）三大营造手法著称，是武当建筑群中将…
The Golden Dragon Museum opened in 1991 on the site of one of Bendigo's former Chinatowns (now known as Dai Gum San), and is the first accredited museum in Victoria. The …
Taihe Palace lies within the Purple Gold City on Tianzhu Peak and is the highest temple complex on Wudang Mountains. Its Golden Hall, built in the fourteenth year of the …
Shangqing Palace is the principal palace of Zhengyi Daoism on Mount Longhu. Tradition holds that Zhang Daoling built a hermitage here to refine elixirs; the Zhenxian Temp…
The Kuala Lumpur Guandi Temple was founded in 1888 by the Kwong Siew Association on Jalan Tun H.S. Lee (formerly known by its Chinese name Xie Jie) and serves as the reli…
The cult of Guandi in the Chinese community of Peru exists in the form of an association altar: the Guandi (Kuan Kung) altar of Lima’s Chinatown is installed in the Lung …
Ararat is the only town in Australia founded by Chinese: in 1857, a group of Cantonese miners who had landed at Robe in South Australia and walked overland to avoid Victo…
The Han Jiang Ancestral Temple is the central ancestral hall and native-place association of Penang's Teochew community, completed in 1870 and one of the most representat…
The Heng San Teng was built in 1828 as the earliest public-cemetery management body and cemetery-hill temple of Singapore's Hokkien community, its principal deity Tua Pek…
Ho Ann Kiong stands in the Chinatown of Kuala Terengganu (Kampung Cina) and is generally held to have been built about 1801, making it the oldest Chinese temple in the st…
Hok Tek Bio stands at the head of Jalan Suryakencana in Bogor, and is the core temple of Bogor's Chinese quarter. It is dedicated principally to Fude Zhengshen (Hok Tek T…
The Hong Kung Temple, Macau (popularly the Hong Kung Miu) was built in the tenth year of the Xianfeng era of the Qing (1860), on Rua de Cinco de Outubro in Macau's Inner …
Hong San See was founded by immigrants from Nan’an in Fujian and is dedicated principally to Guangze Zunwang (Guo Shengwang), a native-place protector deity, a branch (fe…
Hong San Si Temple in Kuching was founded in the 1840s (generally given as 1848) by immigrants from Nan'an in Fujian, and is dedicated primarily to Guangze Zunwang (Lord …
Houtu Shrine in Wanrong stands on the Fenyin Shui ('Water Bank') where the Fen River meets the Yellow River. In the fourth year of the Yuanding era of Emperor Wu of Han (…
Houtu Temple in Jiexiu is dedicated to 'Houtu, Empress of Earth, Who Carries Out the Mandate of Heaven and Embodies Its Law,' an important temple to Houtu, one of the Fou…
Huangting Temple was built to commemorate Wei Huacun (Lady Wei), founding patriarch of the Shangqing School; tradition holds that in her later years Lady Wei cultivated t…
Daoism in western Hubei centers mainly on the City God temples and Xuanmiao Temple of the Yichang and Jingzhou area (the Xuanmiao Temple in Jingzhou is a Ming-dynasty str…
Jianfu Palace stands at the foot of Zhangren Peak at the base of Mount Qingcheng and is the first temple encountered on the ascent. It was built in the eighteenth year of…
The Jintai Temple stands on the southern slope of Lingyuan Mountain on the northern plateau of Baoji, where Zhang Sanfeng cultivated the Dao in the late Yuan and early Mi…
Jiuxian Temple stands on Yushan within the city of Fuzhou; tradition holds that the nine He brothers of the Han dynasty practiced alchemy here and became immortals, givin…
Johor Old Temple was built in the 1870s by Tan Hiok Nee, leader of the Yixing Company, and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Johor Bahru. Within the temple, fiv…
Kam Wah Chung & Co. is the best-preserved nineteenth-century Chinese-American commercial building in North America. The original structure was built around 1866–1867 and …
Kaohsiung Daode Temple is dedicated primarily to the Most High Ancestor of the Dao (Laozi), and also worships the Three Pure Ones, the Jade Emperor, and the Three Officia…
Kathu Shrine is one of the oldest Chinese temples in Phuket, and is widely recognized as the birthplace of Phuket's Nine Emperor Gods Vegetarian Festival (known in Thai a…
Kelenteng Tiao Kak Sie stands in the old port district of Cirebon and is one of the oldest Chinese temples on the north coast of West Java; the temple’s own account of it…
Khanh Van Nam Vien is one of the few temples in Vietnam, and indeed in Southeast Asia, that is a Daoist monastery in the strict sense: it preserves traditional Chinese Da…
The Kheng Chiu Tin Hou Kong is the religious and native-place organizational center for Singapore's Hainanese (Qiongzhou) immigrants, built around Beach Road in 1857 alon…
Kim Tek Ie was originally named Kwan Im Teng (Guanyin Pavilion), built in 1650 under the auspices of a Chinese kapitan, and is the oldest surviving Chinese temple in Jaka…
Klenteng Cu An Kiong is the oldest Chinese temple in the town of Lasem on the north coast of Java, generally traced back to the early eighteenth century or earlier. Lasem…
Klenteng Eng An Kiong was built in 1825 by Kwee Sam Hway, the Chinese Kapitan of Malang, and is the most important Chinese temple in Malang, East Java. It is dedicated ma…
Klenteng Gie Yong Bio was built in 1780 and is an extremely unusual temple in Indonesia — the object of its worship is not a traditional deity but the commanders of the c…
Klenteng Hok An Kiong is located in Surabaya's Chinatown and is dedicated mainly to Mazu, serving as the principal temple of Surabaya's Hokkien-descended Chinese communit…
Hong Tiek Hian is the oldest Chinese temple in Surabaya and stands within Chinatown. The temple’s own account and the local gazetteers trace it to the period when the Mon…
Ling Gwan Kiong, built in 1873, stands in the old harbor district of Singaraja in northern Bali, and is one of the most important Chinese temples on the island. During th…
Klenteng Poncowinatan (also known as Fuk Ling Miau, the "Temple of Blessed Numinosity") was built in 1881 on land granted by Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII of Yogyakarta, and …
Soei Goeat Kiong (Klenteng Chandra Nadi) stands on the south bank of the Musi River in Palembang; the temple's own history holds it was built in 1733, and it is generally…
Klenteng Xian Ma stands in the Chinese quarter of Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi Province, dedicated primarily to Tianshang Shengmu (Mazu), with Guanyin, Guandi and …
The Kobe Kanteibyo is administered by the General Incorporated Association Chinese Association (Chuka Kaikan), and is dedicated primarily to Guandi Shengjun, with Guanyin…
The Kong Chow Benevolent Association is a native-place association for immigrants from Xinhui, Guangdong (anciently called Kong Chow), founded in Los Angeles in 1889; a G…
The Kwan Tee Pagoda of the Nam Shun Fooy Koon was built in 1895 within the grounds of the Nam Shun Fooy Koon (South Shun Benevolent Society), immediately adjacent to the …
La Chinesca is the largest Chinatown in Mexico, located in Mexicali, the capital of Baja California. Chinese laborers first came to build the irrigation system of the Mex…
Lan Yuan (meaning ‘Garden of Enduring Wistfulness’) is the southernmost Chinese-style garden in the southern hemisphere, opened in 2008; its design follows the literati g…
The Laojun Cave Temple stands on Nanshan in Chongqing, taking its name from the Laojun rock cave there; tradition holds that it already existed in the Tang, was rebuilt d…
The Laojun Portrait Stele on the west pillar of the Sanqing Hall at Xuanmiao Temple, Suzhou, was carved in the first year of the Baoqing era of the Southern Song (1225); …
Laojun Rock is the largest surviving Daoist stone sculpture in China, a seated statue of Laozi carved in the Song dynasty from a natural granite boulder, 5.63 meters high…
Lawrence was the starting point of the Otago gold rush in New Zealand (gold was discovered in Gabriel's Gully in 1861), and the Chinese camp outside the town was once the…
The Lecheng Temple principally enshrines Tianshang Shengmu (Mazu); the Mazu it venerates is popularly known as the 'Hanxi Mazu,' and the temple is one of the 'Four Great …
Leng Buai Ia Shrine was founded by Teochew merchants in the old market (Talat Kao) of Bangkok's Chinatown, and is one of the oldest surviving Chinese temples in Bangkok. …
Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi is the clan organization in Penang of the Khoo lineage from Xinjiang, Haicheng, Zhangzhou (present-day Haicang, Xiamen), Fujian; the kongsi was…
Fresno's Liesheng Gong is a two-story brick temple built with funds raised by the Chee Kung Tong in the early 1880s; the ground floor served as an assembly hall, the uppe…
Ling Sen Tong stands at the foot of the limestone hills of Ipoh's Kinta Valley, neighboring Sam Poh Tong and Nam Thean Tong, and is generally believed to have been built …
Cooktown was the gateway port of the Palmer River goldfield in the nineteenth century; in the 1870s tens of thousands of Chinese miners landed there, and it was for a tim…
The Innisfail Lit Sung Goong ("Lit Sung" meaning "the assembled gods") stands in the sugar-cane and banana district of North Queensland; around 1883 more than half the po…
Lit Sung Goong in Rockhampton was a temple of the central Queensland Chinese community, its principal deity Guandi. Its significance lies in the rare, continuous record o…
The Cairns Lit Sung Goong was founded in 1886–1887 as the main temple of the Chinese community during the North Queensland gold-rush and settlement era; it was known loca…
The Longmu Ancestral Temple at Yuecheng is the ancestral temple of the cult of the Dragon Mother (Longmu) along the West River. Tradition holds that a shrine was establis…
Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple originated in the early 1980s, when several anglers discovered scattered Daoist, Buddhist and Hindu deity statues on a beach at the end of the …
The Lum Sai Ho Tong Tin Hau Temple was founded in 1889 by the Lum (also romanized Lim, Lam, Lem, or Lin) clan association of Honolulu as a mutual-aid society, its members…
Ma-Cho Temple is the largest Mazu temple in the Philippines, dedicated chiefly to Mazu (Lin Moniang), and also enshrining the Earth God (Tudi) and Guanyin. Its foundation…
The Macau Taoist Association was founded by the local community of householder Zhengyi priests; its founding year is given as either 2001 (per the association's own websi…
The Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan was completed around 1847–1862, funded and organized by Chinese merchants Lu Yagui, Tan Yacai, and others, and is dedicated primarily to W…
Man Tak Chi Sin She traces its origins to the Yingyuan Palace on Guanyin Mountain in Guangzhou. In the early 1950s, Zeng Chengchi, a twenty-fourth-generation Daoist maste…
The Mansion of the Celestial Masters was the residence and seat of authority of successive generations of the Celestial Master Zhang. It was built by imperial decree at G…
The Meizhou Mazu Ancestral Temple is the site of origin for the cult of Mazu (Lin Mo); after Lin Mo underwent Feathered Transformation in the fourth year of the Yongxi er…
Melbourne's Chinatown on Little Bourke Street took shape during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s and is one of the longest continuously existing Chinese quarters in t…
The Miaoli Yuqing Temple principally enshrines the Three Benefactor Lords (Guandi, Fuyou Dijun, and Siming Zhenjun), and belongs to the luantang tradition. It was founded…
The White Cloud Temple (Baiyun Guan) in Beijing is the ancestral seat of the Quanzhen Longmen lineage and also the headquarters of the Chinese Taoist Association; its mos…
Mingdao Palace stands within the town of Luyi County, centered on the Laojun Terrace (Ascension Terrace). Tradition holds that Laozi lectured here and ascended to immorta…
The Minglun Sansheng Temple principally enshrines Guandi, who together with Fuyou Dijun and Jiutian Siming Zhenjun is known as the Three Sage Benefactor Lords. Its predec…
Mount Heng is the Northern Peak, anciently called Changshan or Xuanyue. From the Han to the Ming, sacrifices to the Northern Peak were mostly performed at Beiyue Temple i…
Mount Hua is the Western Peak, renowned for its precipitous terrain, with five peaks standing in a ring; it has been a site of sacrifice to the marchmount and of reclusiv…
Mount Kongtong is a famous mountain in eastern Gansu; tradition holds that the Yellow Emperor ascended it in the west to ask about the Dao from Guang Chengzi (as recorded…
Mount Lao is known as 'the foremost mountain by the sea,' and in Daoism as 'the dwelling of immortals and the abode of the numinous and marvelous.' Tradition holds that Z…
Mount Longhu is the ancestral seat of Zhengyi Daoism (the Way of the Celestial Masters). According to tradition, Zhang Daoling refined the Nine-Heaven Divine Elixir here …
Mount Mao was anciently called Mount Gouqu; tradition holds that the three Mao brothers — Mao Ying, Mao Gu and Mao Zhong — of the Western Han cultivated the Dao here, giv…
Mount Qian, anciently called the "Mountain of a Thousand Lotus Blossoms," is a site where Buddhism and Daoism coexist, and an important center of Daoism in Northeast Chin…
Mount Qingcheng is one of the birthplaces of Daoism. Tradition holds that Zhang Daoling built a thatched hermitage here in his later years, taught the Dao, and ascended t…
Mount Sanqing takes its name from its three towering peaks — Yujing, Yuxu and Yuhua — which stand like the Three Pure Ones seated in a row. Tradition holds that Ge Hong o…
Mount Song is the Central Peak, made up of Mount Taishi and Mount Shaoshi, situated at the "Center of Heaven and Earth," and a major site of imperial sacrifice and of bot…
Mount Tai is foremost among the Five Marchmounts, anciently called Daizong or the Eastern Peak, and the site where successive emperors performed the Feng and Shan sacrifi…
Mount Weibao is the foremost mountain of Daoism in Yunnan. Tradition holds that Xi Nuluo, the founding ancestor of the Nanzhao kingdom, once farmed here; the Xunshan Hall…
Mount Yiwulü is the Northern Peak among the ancient "Five Marchmounts" (the five great guardian mountains). In the fourteenth year of the Kaihuang reign of Emperor Wen of…
Mount Mulan is traditionally held to be the homeland of Hua Mulan; a temple to General Mulan was built there in the Tang dynasty, and in the Ming dynasty Daoism flourishe…
The Na Tcha Temple, Macau (by the Ruins of St. Paul's) was built in the fourteenth year of the Guangxu era of the Qing (1888); tradition holds that it was built to invoke…
Nam Soon Church is located at 13 Damzen Lane, founded around 1820, and is said by some to be the oldest surviving Chinese temple in Kolkata. It was established by immigra…
Nan Hua Temple was built in South Africa by Taiwan's Fo Guang Shan order, located in Bronkhorstspruit, about an hour's drive northeast of Johannesburg; it is the largest …
The Nankunshen Daitian Temple principally enshrines the Five Lords of the Li, Chi, Wu, Zhu, and Fan surnames (the Wangye, or "Royal Lords"), popularly honored as the "Kin…
Nanyan Palace, also known as Tianyi Zhenqing Gong, had its stone hall built under the direction of the eminent Wudang Daoist Zhang Shouqing in the seventh year of the Dad…
Nanyue Great Temple is the state sacrificial temple dedicated to the Sovereign Who Governs Heaven and Manifests Sagehood of the Southern Peak (the Sage Emperor of the Sou…
The Freer Gallery of Art opened on 9 May 1923, and together with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery constitutes the National Museum of Asian Art under the Smithsonian Institut…
磨针井是「铁杵磨成针」传说的武当版本圣迹：真武圣传谓净乐国太子修道意怠欲下山，行至此处遇紫气元君化身老妪于井边磨铁杵，问之，答曰「磨针」，太子悟「功到自然成」之理，遂回山复修，终成大道。此传说出自《玄天上帝启圣录》圣传系统（另一版本附会李白）。武当道门又以此地每日最先承接纯阳之气，故名纯阳宫。现存建筑为清咸丰间重建的小型院落，殿前有姥姆亭…
Ng Shing Gung was built in 1888 in Heinlenville, San Jose's fifth Chinatown — after the Market Street Chinatown burned down in 1887, the German immigrant John Heinlen lea…
North Wudang Mountain was anciently called Longwang Mountain (Dragon King Mountain); a Zhenwu shrine already existed there in the Tang dynasty, and in the Ming dynasty a …
Num Pon Soon was a society hall established in Melbourne by fellow-provincials from the three counties of Nanhai, Panyu, and Shunde, its premises located at the heart of …
The On Leong Merchants Association Building was completed in 1926–1927, designed by the Norwegian-American architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad, and …
The Oroville Chinese Temple, built in 1863, is a temple of popular religion in which many deities are enshrined together. The surviving brick structure is the third templ…
In addition to the temples at Cairns, Cooktown, Croydon, Ravenswood, Rockhampton, Atherton, Innisfail, and Brisbane, Queensland's mining towns and sugar-growing districts…
The rooftop temple of Pei May School stands on Ishwar Mondal Lane in the new Chinatown of Tangra, established in 1929 and dedicated chiefly to Guandi and the God of Wealt…
The Penghu Tianhou Temple is the oldest surviving temple in the Taiwan-Penghu region, principally enshrining Tianshang Shengmu (Mazu). Its date of founding is unknown; du…
Penglai Pavilion was built in the sixth year of the Jiayou reign of the Northern Song (1061), standing atop Danya Hill in Penglai overlooking the sea, and is one of the '…
Phuc Kien Assembly Hall in Hoi An is the largest and earliest Chinese assembly hall in the city; its predecessor was a thatched-roof "Kim Son Tu" (Gold Mountain Temple), …
Poh San Teng Temple was built in 1795, its construction proposed by Chua Su Cheong, the Malacca Chinese Kapitan appointed by the Dutch authorities that same year, and sta…
Qionghua Temple was originally named Fanli Temple; tradition holds that a Houtu Shrine was built here in the second year of the Yuanyan era of Emperor Cheng of the Wester…
Quan Thanh Temple (the Zhenwu Shrine) is the Daoist temple guarding the northern quarter among the "Four Sacred Guardians of Thang Long" in Hanoi; tradition holds that it…
Quang Trieu Assembly Hall in Hoi An was built in 1885 by overseas Chinese from Guangzhou and Zhaoqing prefectures, and stands on Tran Phu Street in Hoi An's "heritage str…
Ravenswood was a gold-mining and ore-processing town in late-nineteenth-century North Queensland, where Chinese miners and market gardeners settled and built a temple. Th…
Sam Poo Kong (called the Sam Poo Temple by the Chinese) is located in Semarang, Central Java, and is traditionally said to be the site where Zheng He's Ming-dynasty treas…
Sam Sing Kung Temple was built in 1887 and is one of the oldest surviving Chinese temples in Sabah, located in the town of Sandakan. The "Three Saints" refers to Guan She…
San Qing Gong was completed in March 2003; its principal deities are the Three Pure Ones, enshrined in the Daluotian Sanqing Hall, alongside a Hall of the Three Patriarch…
Xianse Gong, commonly known as the Sanchong Wugu Wang Temple ("Five Grains King Temple"), is dedicated primarily to Shennong Dadi (the August Deity of the Five Grains). T…
Sea Ip Church is located at 22/1 Chattawala Lane, facing the main street of Tiretta Bazar; the present building dates from 1905, though its origins are placed either in 1…
Sea Voi Yune Leong Futh Church stands at 17 Black Burn Lane, founded in 1908 by immigrants from Xinhui (Se-Wui) in Guangdong; the building is a red, circular structure, a…
The See Yup Temple, Melbourne, was first built as a wooden structure in 1856 and rebuilt as a permanent building in 1866 to a design by the architect George Wharton; it i…
Sit Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi is the clan organization in Penang of the Cheah lineage from Shitang, Haicheng, Zhangzhou, Fujian, generally dated to 1810 as the founding of th…
Sakado Seitenkyu, in full "Seitenkyu of the Ascending Five Thousand Dragons," is the largest Daoist building in Japan, and also the site with the purest Daoist character …
Shang Sin Chun Tong traces its origins to a charitable body called 'Chenfan Zhenyu' founded in 1942 in Dongguan, Guangdong, which received the name 'Pung Ying Kok' throug…
The Shanghai Taoist College is located within the Dongyue Temple in Songjiang, founded by the Shanghai Taoist Association to train Zhengyi Daoist priests, drawing student…
Shangqing Palace in Luoyang is located on Cuiyun Peak of Mount Mang; tradition holds that Laozi once refined the elixir there. In the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, a …
Shangqing Palace stands beneath the First Peak of Mount Qingcheng, beside Laoxiao Summit, and is the highest temple on the front range of the mountain. It was first built…
The Shing Yin Temple is located at 82/1B, Tangra; the building is relatively new and the site is Buddhist, chiefly venerating the Buddha, open daily for one hour each in …
The Siang Ti Temple is located on Jalan Carpenter in Kuching's old town, and is dedicated primarily to Xuantian Shangdi (Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior, also called Shangd…
Siew San Teng, the Tua Pek Kong Temple in Kuching, stands on the bank of the Sarawak River. According to the temple's own history it was built in 1770, and it is generall…
The Wong Tai Sin Temple is the most actively worshipped Daoist temple in Hong Kong, administered by the charitable organization Sik Sik Yuen. Wong Tai Sin is Huang Chupin…
Sin Sze Si Ya Temple was founded in 1864 by the Kuala Lumpur Chinese Kapitan Yap Ah Loy, and is the oldest surviving Chinese temple in Kuala Lumpur. Its enshrined deities…
Sofuku-ji was founded in 1629 by the Fuzhou-born monk Chaoran (Chōnen), and is an Ōbaku-sect Buddhist temple whose principal image is Sakyamuni; together with Kōfuku-ji a…
The Songshan Cihui Temple, Taipei, principally enshrines the Ultimateless Queen Mother of the West of the Jasper Pool, Great Celestial Worthy, whom devotees honor as the …
Jidu Temple, whose full name is Jidu Beihai Temple, was first built in the second year of the Kaihuang era of the Sui (582); the Beihai Shrine was added in the twelfth ye…
The Stele of the Numinous Temple of Songgao at the Central Marchmount, abbreviated as the "Songgao Lingmiao Stele" or the "Stele of Lord Kou," was erected in the Northern…
The Suijing Bo Temple in Boise was built around the 1880s as a simple timber-frame structure, dedicated principally to Suijing Bo (Chen Zhongzhen), a local protector deit…
The Sze Yup Temple, Sydney, had its main hall completed in 1898, with the east and west halls added in 1904; it was founded by Sze Yup (Siyi) immigrants from Guangdong an…
This temple stands at 104 D/1 Matheswartala Road in the new Chinatown of Tangra, near the Chinatown archway, in a triangular building with the shrine hall on the ground f…
Taiqing Palace is the largest and oldest Daoist temple on Mount Lao, also called Xiaqing Palace or Xiagong (the Lower Palace), enclosed by mountains on three sides and fa…
The Taiqing Palace in Shenyang is the birthplace and ancestral court of the Longmen Lineage of Quanzhen in Northeast China. In the second year of the Kangxi reign of the …
Taiwan's First Temple of Heaven, commonly called Tiangong Temple, is dedicated primarily to the Jade Emperor, with the Three Pure Ones and the Three Officials worshipped …
The Tam Kung Temple, Victoria BC, is Canada's oldest Chinese temple, dedicated primarily to Tam Kung, a sea god venerated by Cantonese Hakka people. Its origins trace to …
The Tan Si Chong Su is the central ancestral hall of the Tan (Chen) clan in Singapore, proposed for construction in 1876 by overseas leaders Tan Kim Ching and Tan Beng Sw…
The Tang stone seated statue of Laojun held at the Xi'an Beilin Museum originally stood at the Laojun Temple on Mount Li in Lintong, Shaanxi, before being moved into the …
The Taoist College (Singapore) was approved for establishment by the Registrar of Societies in January 2008, and is Singapore's first formal institution of Daoist educati…
The Taoist Sanctuary of San Diego is one of the earliest religious corporations in the United States registered under the name 'Daoist,' established in 1975; its current …
The Taoist Temple, Hanford, was built in 1893 and is dedicated principally to Guandi; it stands on China Alley in Hanford, in the Central Valley. After a fire destroyed t…
Tay Kak Sie Temple was built in 1746 on Gang Lombok lane in the Chinatown of Semarang, and is one of the largest and most actively worshipped Chinese temples in Central J…
The Guandi Temple (Kanti, the Hakka pronunciation of Guandi) is the only Chinese temple on the island of Tahiti and stands in the Mamao district of Papeete. It is recorde…
The Temple of Kwan Tai, Mendocino, was built around the mid-1850s (accounts of the founding year vary among 1852, 1854, and 1867; the earliest documentary record dates fr…
The Holy Triad Temple (known to the Chinese as Sarm Sung Goon, and to Westerners as the Breakfast Creek Joss House) was built jointly in 1885–1886 by five major Cantonese…
The British Museum was founded on 7 June 1753, one of the world's earliest public national museums; its Department of Asia oversees an extensive collection of Chinese art…
The Yuen Yuen Institute, in full the "Special-Grade Heavenly Altar of the Perfected Way of Roundness and Mystery, Enrolled by the Nine Heavens," was proposed for construc…
Thien Hau Temple in Los Angeles is dedicated chiefly to Mazu, with Guan Yu and the Earth God (Tudi, Fude Zhengshen) also enshrined, and is operated by the Camau Associati…
The Thong Chai Medical Institution was founded in 1867 by seven Chinese merchants and is the earliest Chinese charitable institution of traditional medicine in Singapore;…
Tianshi Cave, the ancient Changdao Temple, is the principal and largest Daoist temple on Mount Qingcheng; tradition holds that Zhang Daoling once preached the Dao within …
Tin How Temple in San Francisco was founded around 1852–1853, dedicated chiefly to Mazu (Tin Hau, "Empress of Heaven"), and is one of the oldest continuously operating Ch…
Toa Se Bio (generally named after its Hokkien pronunciation) stands in the Glodok Chinatown of Jakarta, not far from Kim Tek Ie, and is dedicated principally to Xuanwu (H…
The Tojin Yashiki was the settlement for Qing-dynasty Chinese merchants in Nagasaki during the period of national seclusion (sakoku) from 1689 onward; its group of shrine…
Toong On Church is located at 22 Blackburn Lane, founded in 1924 by laborers who had immigrated from Guangdong and worked at a sugar refinery in Kolkata, dedicated princi…
The Tua Pek Kong Temple in Miri stands in the old Chinatown quarter of Miri, and is generally traced to around 1913. Miri saw Sarawak's first oil well come into productio…
The Tulou Temple, popularly known as the North Mountain Temple or Beichan Temple, stands on the cliffs of North Mountain in Xining. Caves were first carved into the cliff…
The polychrome sculptures in the Hall of the Twenty-eight Lunar Mansions, on the west side of the third courtyard of Yuhuang Temple, Fucheng, are the pinnacle of Chinese …
Vihara Gunung Timur (whose Indonesian name means 'Eastern Mountain Temple,' corresponding to the Chinese 'Dongyue,' the Eastern Peak) is the largest Chinese Daoist temple…
Vihara Satya Budhi (Klenteng Hiap Thian Kiong) was built in 1885, and is Bandung's oldest and largest Chinese temple. Its name "Xietian" (Hiap Thian) derives from Lord Gu…
Wahuang Palace is dedicated to Nüwa, the goddess of creation, and is the largest architectural complex in China dedicated to her worship. During the reign of Emperor Wenx…
The main shrine is dedicated to "Zhenwu, Emperor of the Dark Heaven Who Quells the Heavens at the North Pole" (北极镇天真武玄天上帝, Beiji Zhentian Zhenwu Xuantian Shangdi, known a…
The Wellington Chee Kung Tong (English name: Wellington Chinese Masonic Society) was established in 1907 as a branch in New Zealand of the Hung League, which originated i…
The White Cloud Temple, Jiaxian, stands on Baiyun Mountain on the western bank of the Yellow River. It was founded in the thirty-third year of the Wanli era of the Ming (…
White Cloud Temple in Shanghai is the city's only Quanzhen public monastery (shifang conglin). In the eighth year of the Guangxu era of the Qing (1882), the Longmen-linea…
The Wong Dai Sin Temple, Markham, opened in 2015, dedicated primarily to Wong Tai Sin (Huang Daxian), and belongs to the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism; it was designed…
Wudang Mountains, anciently called Mount Taihe, is the sacred site of Zhenwu (the Perfected Warrior, Xuandi), and is listed as the ninth of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands,…
The Wudang Museum, located in the Wudang Mountains Scenic Area in Hubei, is devoted to Wudang Daoism and the cult of Zhenwu. Since the Tang and Song, the Wudang Mountains…
The Wudao City God Temple is one of the principal centers of belief in the Kinmen region, principally enshrining the City God (imperially titled Earl of Manifest Protecti…
五龙宫是武当山建庙之始。唐贞观年间均州大旱，太守姚简奉旨祈雨，传「见五龙从空飞降」而雨至，太宗敕建五龙祠——此为武当山第一座敕建祠庙。宋元屡经升格，元代与紫霄、南岩同为武当核心宫观；南宋孙寂然于此创五龙法派，元初汪真常、鲁大宥重兴，张守清即出自五龙一系。明永乐十年重建为「兴圣五龙宫」，鼎盛时殿宇八百五十间（据明代山志），后世渐圮，现存宫门…
Wun Chuen Sin Koon traces its origin to the Wun Chuen Sin Koon at Baiyun Cave, Mount Xiqiao, Nanhai, Guangdong (built in the twenty-seventh year of the Daoguang era of th…
The Wuxian Temple (Temple of the Five Immortals) enshrines the five immortals of the legend of the 'Five Rams Bearing Grain,' the origin of Guangzhou's names 'City of Ram…
The Xi'an Beilin Museum has its origins in the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, established in 1944; its collection of steles can be traced back to the Northern Song, a…
The Xingji Temple, Tainan, popularly known as the "Upper Dadaogong Temple," was built in the thirty-third year of the Yongli era of Ming (1679) by officers and soldiers o…
Xuanmiao Temple in Suzhou was founded in the second year of the Xianning era of the Western Jin (276), and was known successively as the Zhenqing Daoyuan, the Kaiyuan Pal…
The Yangtai Palace was built in the fifteenth year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang (727) at a site selected by Sima Chengzhen on Mount Wangwu at the order of Emperor Xuanz…
Yanqing Temple was built to commemorate the transformation-departure (yuhua) of the Quanzhen patriarch Wang Chongyang in Kaifeng. In the tenth year of the Dading reign of…
Chap Teik Tong Yap Kongsi is the ancestral hall of the Yap lineage in Penang; the building standing today was completed in 1924 and stands on Armenian Street, in the same…
The Yicheng Tang Guandi Temple principally enshrines Guandi (Emperor Guan); at its founding it venerated the Three Sage Benefactor Lords, and it belongs to the Rujiao She…
The Yiu Ming Temple was built between 1908 and 1909, with interior fitting-out completed only in 1917; it was founded by immigrants from the counties of Gaoyao and Gaomin…
The Yokohama Kanteibyo is the most famous Chinese temple in Japan. In 1862, Chinese merchants living in Japan enshrined a wooden statue of Guandi in a small shrine, and i…
The Yongle Palace, originally named the Da Chunyang Wanshou Palace, was built to commemorate Lü Dongbin at Yongle Town, his legendary native place, and together with the …
Yuanching Temple, commonly called Tiangong Tan, was built through joint funding by Quanzhou-descended immigrants in Changhua in the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong of the …
The Yuanfu Wanning Palace, popularly known as the Seal Palace, takes its name from the fact that it houses the jade seal bestowed by Emperor Huizong of Song, the 'Seal of…
The Yuhuang Pavilion, Yinchuan, is a Ming-dynasty raised terrace-pavilion dedicated to the Jade Emperor, rebuilt after the magnitude-eight Pingluo–Yinchuan earthquake of …
Yuhuang Temple at Fucheng is a Daoist temple dedicated to the Jade Emperor, founded in the ninth year of the Xining era of the Northern Song (1076), rebuilt in the sevent…
The Pak Tai Temple in Wan Chai, formally named Yuk Hui Kung, was begun in 1862 and completed in 1863, built with funds raised by the residents of Wan Chai, and is dedicat…
The Yuntai Temple is located on Yuntai Mountain in Santai County, Mianyang. Founded in the third year of the Jiading era of the Southern Song (1210), it echoed the Wudang…
Yuquan Temple stands at the mouth of the valley on the northern foot of Mount Hua, the starting point for ascending the mountain, and the principal temple of the Huashan …
The Yuquan Temple, Tianshui, stands at the foot of Tianjing Mountain north of the city; it was built under the direction of the Quanzhen priest Liang Zhitong in the third…
Yuxu Palace, in full ‘Xuantian Yuxu Gong,’ was built in the eleventh year of the Yongle reign of the Ming (1413) at the northern foot of Wudang Mountains. It was the larg…
遇真宫为明成祖朱棣专为「真仙」张三丰敕建的宫观——皇帝为一位（传说在世的）道士立专祠，历史罕见。永乐间成祖遣使访求张三丰十余年不遇，遂于其曾结庵的武当山麓建宫祀之，赐额「遇真宫」，殿内奉张三丰铜铸鎏金坐像。宫为武当九宫之一，现存山门、宫墙、龙虎殿与正殿基址。因南水北调中线工程丹江口大坝加高（正常蓄水位由 157 米升至 170 米），遇真…
Yuzhen Palace was an imperially commissioned temple built by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming in the tenth year of the Yongle reign (1412) in memory of Zhang Sanfeng; it ta…
The Zhenqing Temple is the largest and oldest surviving Daoist temple in Kunming. In the Yuan dynasty it was a Zhenwu shrine; in the early Ming, the eminent priest Liu Yu…
Zhinan Temple, popularly known as the Immortal Lord's Temple (Xiangong Miao), is dedicated mainly to Sovereign Lord Fuyou, Lü Dongbin, and is the most famous place of Lü …
Zhongyue Temple is the state-sacrifice temple dedicated to the god of Mount Song, the Central Peak, and is one of the largest and best-preserved of the temples to the Fiv…
Zixiao Palace is one of the best-preserved and largest temple complexes on Wudang Mountains. Set against Zhanqi Peak, it was first built in the first year of the Xuanhe e…
Compiled by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin, it records the deeds of over eighty immortals, continuing and elaborating on Liu Xiang's Biographies of Exemplary Immortals. It is…
The second of the Three Pure Ones, also called the Most High Lord of the Dao (Taishang Daojun) or the Great Emperor of the Highest Clarity, dwelling in the Yuyu Heaven of…
The foremost of the Three Pure Ones, dwelling in the Qingwei Heaven (Pure Tenuity) of the Jade Clarity Realm, a supreme deity held to have existed before the creation of …
Consecration (kaiguang) is the rite performed for a newly made deity image, in which the eyes are "dotted" and the deity is invited to enter the image; the priest perform…
Daoist Music comprises the scripture-chant melodies and ritual-instrument music used in jiao and liturgical services. It is divided into the "Shifang yun" (十方韵, Ten Direc…
According to legend, Fuxi received a chart carried on the back of a dragon-horse from the Yellow River, and Yu the Great received a document carried on the back of a divi…
Written by Chen Guofu, first published in 1949 and revised and expanded in 1963, it investigates the compilation of the Daoist Canon through the ages, the appearance of D…
Emperor Xuanwu, the northern god of water; the name was changed to Zhenwu under a naming taboo of the Song. Emperor Yongle of Ming honored him as 'Perfected Warrior, Myst…
The Baopuzi Outer Chapters is Ge Hong's work discussing gains and losses in the human world and the merits and faults of worldly affairs, fifty chapters, classified among…
The Biographies of Exemplary Immortals is the earliest surviving book of immortal biographies, in two chapters, recording the deeds of seventy (some say seventy-one) immo…
Biographies of Suspected Immortals, in three fascicles, bears a suggestive title: the 'suspected' (yi) of its name signals that all the figures it records performed extra…
Bai Yuchan, fifth of the Five Southern Patriarchs and the effective founder of the Southern Lineage as an organized school, left his poetry, prose, and alchemical writing…
The Youxiang Liexian Quanzhuan (Complete Illustrated Biographies of Immortals) in nine scrolls is the largest illustrated collection of immortal biographies from the Ming…
The Xuanmen Risong Zaowan Gongke Jing (Daily Morning and Evening Liturgy of the Mysterious Gate) is a compilation of scriptures and litanies recited daily, morning and ev…
Daoism Handbook, edited by Livia Kohn and published by Brill in 2000 as part of its Handbook of Oriental Studies series, is the first systematic collection of research su…
The Daojiao Wenhua Cidian (Dictionary of Daoist Culture) was edited by Zhang Zhizhe and published by Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House in 1994; it is a Daoist dictio…
The Hanwudi neizhuan (Esoteric Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han) is presented as an account of Emperor Wu of the Han's quest for immortality: on the seventh day of the …
The Chi Jian Da Yue Taihe Shan Zhi (Gazetteer of Mount Taihe, the Great Marchmount, Built by Imperial Decree) is the representative officially compiled gazetteer of the W…
The Gazetteer of Patriarch Lü, in six scrolls, is included in the Supplementary Daoist Canon of the Wanli Era and is a compendious document of the cult of Lü Dongbin. The…
The Zhonghua Daojiao Dacidian (Great Dictionary of Chinese Daoism) was edited by Hu Fuchen of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and published by China Social Science…
《清微元降大法》二十五卷，是清微派法术的大型汇编。前半述源流（〈元始清微应运〉〈师承集要宗会〉〈道原〉诸篇），后半汇集约五十种雷法——清微通玄秘法、上清摄山五雷法、西梵碧落五雷法、上清五元五雷法、清微龙光内法等。每种雷法体例固定：先列本部雷神将帅之姓名、表字、冠服、相貌（如「欻火律令大神炎帝天君邓燮，字伯温……执铁钻锤，乘龙」「雷霆都督元…
The Illustrated Biographies of the Immortal Origins of the Orthodox Golden Lotus Lineage (Jinlian zhengzong xianyuan xiangzhuan), in one scroll, records the patriarchs of…
《大明玄天上帝瑞应图录》是明永乐朝为「北建故宫、南修武当」的武当大营建配套官修的瑞应图册，图文对照记录永乐十年至十七年间营建武当宫观时的「祥瑞显应」：黑云感应、榔梅呈瑞、五色圆光、骞林应祥等数十事，每事一图一记。其政治功能十分明确——朱棣以「靖难」得位，宣称真武「阴翊默赞」，此图录即以图像证明皇帝崇奉真武获得神明回应，为永乐政权的合法性叙…
The Liezi is attributed to Lie Yukou of the state of Zheng, and is one of the "Three Mysteries" (San Xuan) of Daoist classics alongside the Laozi and the Zhuangzi. The re…
The Precious Records of the Jade Calendar is the most widely circulated illustrated morality book on hell, attributed to the Song-dynasty Daoist Danchi, who is said to ha…
Principles of the Balanced Cultivation of Nature and Life (Xingming guizhi) is the most widely circulated illustrated work of Ming-dynasty Internal Alchemy, attributed to…
The Record of Ranks of the Mysterious (Xuanpin lu), in five scrolls, was compiled by the celebrated Yuan-dynasty Daoist and poet-calligrapher Zhang Yu, who arranges Daois…
《玄天上帝启圣录》八卷是真武传说最完备的集成文献。卷一以「王宫诞圣」「紫霄圆道」等四字标题分段，完整敷演玄帝本迹：托胎净乐国善胜皇后，十五岁辞父母出家，受玉清圣祖紫元君（紫气元君）点化授「无极上道」入武当修炼，中经「铁杵磨针」（老妪磨针、「功到自然成」）等考验，修炼四十二年，九月初九功成飞升，受册封为太玄元帅；卷二至卷八汇录宋代真武灵应故…
The Regulations for the Practice of Daoism in Accordance with the Scriptures of the Three Caverns is the most important compendium of medieval Daoist institutional regula…
The Scripture of Precepts Chanted by Lord Lao preserves a surviving portion of the Yunzhong Yinsong Xinke zhi Jie (New Chanted Regulations and Precepts from within the Cl…
The Scripture of the Void of Free Wandering (also written Xiaoyao Xu Jing), in two fascicles, was compiled by Hong Yingming during the Wanli era of the Ming, and is a pop…
The Scripture Spoken by Lord Lao on Requiting the Profound Kindness of Parents proclaims, in the name of the Supreme Venerable Sovereign, the kindness of parents in beari…
Studies on the Origins and Development of the Daoist Canon is the foundational work of Daoist textual scholarship. Chen Guofu was by training a chemist (a professor at th…
「武当＝武学圣地」的公众形象，是三重叠加的产物：黄宗羲《王征南墓志铭》（1669）一句「内家拳起于宋之张三峰」、民国中央国术馆把太极形意八卦划归「武当门」的分类建构、以及金庸与还珠楼主的小说想象。真实的武当道教以真武信仰、斋醮科仪、内丹修炼为主体，武术是附属，且大量内容为民国以来整合追认；但当代武当山又以这一形象为依托，重建了确实存在且已…
武当山是玄天上帝信仰的祖庭：九宫九观 33 处建筑群、约 160 万平方米，1994 年整体列入《世界遗产名录》，从山脚均州净乐宫到 1612 米天柱峰金殿，整座山被明代皇家营造成一部真武圣传的建筑叙事。而玄帝信仰的地理远不止武当：珠三角以佛山祖庙为中心的「北帝」系统、潮汕陆丰玄武山元山寺与南洋潮人的分香网络、泉州法石真武庙的海神化转型、…