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A database containing the full texts of academic journals from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, in which one can search for Daoism-related papers in journals such as Studies…
Stephen R. Bokenkamp is a professor at Arizona State University, directing a Daoist studies programme and publishing works such as Early Daoist Scriptures and Ancestors a…
A major exhibition of Daoist art held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000, curated by Stephen Little, bringing together more than 150 Daoist artifacts from collection…
An English-language Sinological journal published by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (third series from 1988), publishing research on Chin…
A centre for Chinese studies at the Australian National University; Benjamin Penny has long researched the history of Daoism and contemporary religious movements such as …
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…
Boston University's Department of Religion has a track in Chinese religion; Livia Kohn taught here for many years, publishing works such as the Daoism Handbook and Daoism…
The Dutch publisher Brill publishes a large number of works in Daoist studies, including the Daoism Handbook, the China section of the Handbook of Oriental Studies, works…
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 British Daoist organization founded in 1996 whose founding members had received ordination and registers in China; it promotes Daoist practice, the study of scriptures,…
An annual journal published by the Kyoto Centre of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (first issued in 1985), noted for its focus on Daoism and Chinese religion; it has…
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…
A research institute for Daoist philosophy and religion affiliated with the School of History and Culture and the School of Marxism at Central China Normal University, le…
A platform for the study of religion established at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, in 2012, directed by scholars such as Lee Fong-mao and Hsieh Shu-wei; it publish…
A centre for East Asian studies jointly run by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Collège de France, the EPHE and the University of Paris; its…
Founded in 2006 under the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and directed by Lai Chi-tim; it publishes the international …
Chen Guofu's foundational work in the textual scholarship of the Daoist Canon, first published in 1949 and expanded in 1963, examining the origins and development of the …
A bimonthly published by the China Taoist Association (first issued in 1987), reporting on developments in the Daoist community, administrative affairs, and articles on D…
A national Daoist organization founded in 1957, headquartered at the White Cloud Temple (Baiyun Guan) in Beijing. Its website publishes association announcements, religio…
A national Daoist institution of higher learning founded in 1990 at the White Cloud Temple in Beijing, under the China Taoist Association; it trains advanced Daoist perso…
An open, full-text repository of classical texts built by Donald Sturgeon. Its 'Daoist' section holds pre-Qin Daoist source texts such as the Daodejing, Zhuangzi, Liezi, …
The largest academic paper database in mainland China, containing full texts of journals such as Studies in World Religions, Religious Studies, and China Taoism, along wi…
Coursera and edX host a number of open courses touching on Daoist philosophy and religion, such as Harvard's "Religions of China" (part of the ChinaX series), and courses…
An international academic annual co-published by the Daoist Culture Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the École française d'Extrême-Orient, first…
An influential comprehensive Daoism portal site in mainland China, with sections on Daoist news, temples, scriptures, figures, nourishing life, and ritual; it carries a l…
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…
A non-profit organization founded in 2007 by Louis Komjathy and Kate Townsend, dedicated to promoting Daoist practice and education in the West in a scholarly and accurat…
An English-language portal for Daoist studies created by James Miller, gathering bibliographies of Daoist research, directories of scholars, conference information, cours…
A bibliography of Daoist studies compiled by daoiststudies.org, searchable by author, topic, and year, containing information on monographs, articles, and dissertations, …
The Great Dictionary of Daoism, compiled by the China Taoist Association and the Suzhou Taoist Association, published by Huaxia Publishing House in 1994, containing over …
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…
A Daoist studies series published by the Zhonghua Dadao Cultural and Educational Foundation in Taiwan, collecting papers on Daoist texts, ritual methods, and schools, mos…
A project of the Centre for the Study of Daoist Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in collaboration with the École française d'Extrême-Orient, devoted to edit…
David A. Palmer studies the rise and fall of the qigong movement in China after 1949, touching on the modern transformation of the Daoist internal-alchemy tradition and t…
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 Department of Philosophy at Peking University has a Department of Religious Studies with a track in Daoist philosophy and religion; Tang Yijie founded the Institute o…
The Department of Philosophy at Nanjing University has a religious studies programme; scholars such as Hong Xiuping and Sun Yiping work on Daoist philosophy, the history …
One of the earliest departments of religious studies established in Taiwan (its graduate institute was founded in 1988); it offers courses in Daoist studies, with scholar…
The Department of Religious Studies at Shandong University has a track in Daoist studies; drawing on the resources of Qilu Daoism (the birthplace of Quanzhen Daoism), it …
An electronic dictionary of Buddhist terminology maintained by Charles Muller, containing over 70,000 entries, many of which are terms shared or borrowed between Buddhism…
The École française d'Extrême-Orient, a French national institute of Asian studies founded in 1900, with several centres in Asia (including Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei)…
The academic cradle of French Daoist studies. Max Kaltenmark, Kristofer Schipper (1972–2002), John Lagerwey (2000–2011) and Vincent Goossaert (from 2012) have successivel…
A bibliography of Western-language Daoist studies maintained on the Golden Elixir website, organized by topic (history, scriptures, Internal Alchemy, External Alchemy, sc…
An international Daoist organization founded in Canada in 1970 by the Daoist master Moy Lin-shin, with the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism as its religious body. It prom…
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…
A large, privately maintained aggregator site for classical texts and reference works, holding facsimile editions and texts of the Zhengtong Daozang, the Daozang jiyao, t…
A large historical dictionary of the Chinese language, containing over 370,000 entries; many Daoist terms are included with citations of textual evidence, making it a bas…
Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and its Divinity School jointly offer study of Chinese religion; James Robson researches Daoist sacred site…
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 Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University offers a track in Chinese religious studies, with scholars researching Hong Kong Daoism, spirit …
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum has held exhibitions related to Daoist culture, and holds artifacts from Hong Kong Daoist halls, Daoist ritual implements, and folk religion…
An umbrella organization of Hong Kong Daoist bodies, founded in 1961 and registered in 1967, with more than a hundred member Daoist halls; it organizes Taoism Day, the Da…
A Daoist research and education institution founded in 1991 by Ching Chung Koon; it publishes the journal Hong Dao, offers courses and lectures on Daoist culture, and fun…
A quarterly published by the Hong Kong Taoist College (Ching Chung Koon), founded in 1998. It carries Daoist studies articles, essays on Daoist culture, and news of Hong …
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…
The Department of Sinology under Heidelberg University's Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies has a research track in Chinese religion and intellectual history; it …
The Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica has scholars engaged in religious studies, publishing the Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology and…
Founded in 1980 by Qing Xitai, the earliest institution dedicated to Daoist studies at a Chinese university, designated a Key Research Base in Humanities and Social Scien…
The Department of Sinology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is one of the leading centres for the study of Chinese religion in the German-speaking world; its fac…
A national-level institute for religious studies founded in 1964, with a research office for Daoism and popular religion, publisher of World Religious Studies and World R…
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…
Searching 'Daozang' on the Internet Archive turns up the Hanfenlou facsimile edition of the Zhengtong Daozang, the Yiwen Yinshuguan edition, the Daozang jiyao, and scans …
An overview of Daoist philosophy in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by Ronnie Littlejohn, covering the origins of Daoist thought, the Laozi, Zhuangzi, Hu…
A general history of Daoism by the French scholar Isabelle Robinet, originally published in French as Histoire du taoïsme des origines au XIVe siècle, translated into Eng…
Based on field records of the jiao rites of the Tainan priest Chen Rongsheng, John Lagerwey analyzes one by one the structure, symbolism, and social function of Zhengyi z…
A history of Chinese alchemy co-authored by Joseph Needham with Lu Gwei-djen, Nathan Sivin, and others, spanning multiple volumes that examine the history and chemical ba…
The journal of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in the United States, published by Cambridge University Press, covering all fields of the humanities and social sci…
The journal of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions in the United States, first published in 1975 and issued by Taylor & Francis; it covers Daoism, Buddhism, po…
An English-language annual founded by Livia Kohn and published by Three Pines Press (first issued in 2008), publishing research papers, field reports and book reviews on …
JSTOR contains back issues of journals such as the Journal of Chinese Religions, the Journal of Asian Studies, T'oung Pao, and Asia Major, and is a primary platform for s…
An open-source repository of Chinese-text editions maintained by Christian Wittern (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University) and hosted on GitHub. It inclu…
Based on fieldwork in Fujian, Kenneth Dean studies the interaction between Daoist ritual and local cults of deities (Baosheng Dadi, Qingshui Zushi, Guangze Zunwang, and o…
A Korean academic society for the study of Daoism and Daoist culture, publishing the journal Studies in Daoist Culture; its members research the history of Korean Daoism,…
A general treatise on Daoism by Kristofer Schipper, drawing on his own experience of being ordained a Zhengyi priest and receiving registers in Tainan, combined with mate…
A research institute with a deep tradition of sinology and Daoist studies in Japan; Fukunaga Mitsuji, Mugitani Kunio and others have directed research on Daoist texts the…
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 Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) has a deep sinological tradition; Kristofer Schipper taught here in his later years, and scholars such as Barend ter Haar hav…
The Daoism Handbook, published by Brill, its 30 chapters written by specialists in various fields; it systematically introduces the findings of Daoist studies organized b…
A textbook survey of Daoist history written by Livia Kohn, concisely introducing the development, doctrine, and practice of Daoism from the pre-Qin period to the present;…
A museum devoted to Daoism located in the Mount Longhu scenic area in Yingtan, Jiangxi (site of the Mansion of the Celestial Masters), displaying the lineage of the Zheng…
A systematic textbook on Daoism by Louis Komjathy, covering history, doctrine, cultivation, ritual protocol, conceptions of the body, sacred sites, and contemporary Daois…
A Sinological journal founded in Beijing in 1935 by the Society of the Divine Word, now published by the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin, Germany; it has lon…
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…
The digital collection of Japan's National Diet Library holds Japanese woodblock editions of the Laozi and Zhuangzi, the Taishang ganying pian, Edo-period printed Daoist …
A platform for digital classical-text resources launched by the National Library of China, offering over a hundred thousand images of rare books, Dunhuang manuscripts, or…
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…
A mobile Chinese–English dictionary app that can load multiple dictionaries, including licensed editions of classical Chinese dictionaries (such as the Hanyu Da Cidian), …
Princeton's Department of East Asian Studies cooperates with the Department of Religion; Stephen F. Teiser researches medieval Chinese religion and Dunhuang manuscripts, …
History of Chinese Daoism (ed. Qing Xitai), collectively compiled by the Institute for Religious Studies at Sichuan University, published by Sichuan People's Publishing H…
The open-access journal Religions has in recent years published several special issues on Daoist studies (such as Daoism and ecology, contemporary Daoism, and Daoist text…
A quarterly published by the Institute of Daoist and Religious Culture at Sichuan University (first issued in 1982), featuring Daoist studies as a signature column; it is…
History of Chinese Daoism (ed. Ren Jiyu), compiled by the Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, first published by Shanghai People's Publishin…
Russell Kirkland addresses the long-standing Western dichotomy between "philosophical Daoism" and "religious Taoism" and its Orientalist biases, reworking the history of …
Home to a doctoral program in religious studies with a track in Daoist studies; scholars such as Mou Zhongjian and Xie Lujun have long worked on the history of Daoism and…
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…
A free, open online library of classical books that collects and shares high-resolution scans of classical texts made public by major libraries worldwide, including selec…
SOAS has a track in Chinese religion and Daoist studies; scholars such as Antonello Palumbo work on medieval Daoism and the relationship between Buddhism and Daoism. The …
The general entry on Daoism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by Chad Hansen, with separate entries on Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Neo-Daoism (Xuanxue). It dis…
Drawing on the recorded sayings and poetry of Wang Chongyang and the Seven Perfected, this work analyzes the ascetic practice, internal alchemy, and salvational thought o…
Stephen R. Bokenkamp selected, translated, and extensively annotated early Daoist scriptures including the Xiang'er Commentary on the Laozi, the Commands and Admonitions …
A biannual journal published by the Center for the Study of Chinese Religions at National Chengchi University, Taiwan (founded 2013), publishing research on Daoism, Buddh…
A core journal of religious studies published by the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (first issued in 1979), with a Daoist studies …
The oldest journal of European Sinology, founded in 1890 and published by Brill; it has historically carried Daoist research by Henri Maspero, Kristofer Schipper, Anna Se…
An academic journal published by the Taiwan Association for Religious Studies (founded 2000), publishing papers across all fields of religious studies, with a substantial…
Originally titled Daoism during the Wei–Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties (1988) by Tang Yijie of Peking University, later revised as A History of Early Daoism; it …
Founded on 13 February 1966 (in July 1968 Zhang Enpu, the sixty-third-generation Celestial Master, was elected its first chairman), with the Taiwan Provincial Daoist Soci…
A national Daoist organization in Singapore founded in 1990, uniting various temples and Daoist altars to promote Daoist education, Daoist festivals, and interfaith dialo…
Terry F. Kleeman systematically studies the history, institutional organization, parishes, ritual, and daily life of the early Celestial Masters (the Way of the Five Peck…
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…
A two-volume English-language encyclopedia of Daoism containing about 800 entries covering figures, scriptures, schools, deities, terms and temples, written by dozens of …
A Chinese–English glossary of Daoist and Internal Alchemy terminology provided on Fabrizio Pregadio's website, covering several hundred entries such as the Cinnabar Field…
A website on Daoism and internal/external alchemy maintained by the Italian scholar Fabrizio Pregadio, offering excerpted English translations of alchemical texts such as…
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-…
A three-volume descriptive catalog of the Zhengtong Daozang edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen and published by the University of Chicago Press, the pro…
A bimonthly published by the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, combining scholarly and popularizing content, with a special column o…
A publishing house dedicated to Daoist studies founded by Livia Kohn, publishing the Journal of Daoist Studies and dozens of monographs, translations, and textbooks in Da…
A title index to Daoist texts compiled by Louis Komjathy and published by Three Pines Press, covering the major Daoist collections — the Zhengtong Daozang, the Daozang ji…
The journal of the Japanese Society of Taoist Studies (Tōhō Shūkyō), founded in 1951 and published twice yearly; it is the core journal of Daoist studies in Japan, publis…
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…
Berkeley's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and its Buddhist Studies programme have a track in Chinese religion; Stephen Bokenkamp earned his doctorate her…
The Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara is a major North American centre for East Asian religious studies; Dominic Steavu researches medieval Daoism and a…
East Asian studies at the University of Cambridge offers courses in the history of Chinese religion and thought; the Needham Research Institute also holds a large collect…
The University of Chicago Divinity School and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations offer a track in Chinese religion; Anna Seidel trained here, and schola…
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan has a track in Chinese religion and textual studies; scholars there work on early Daoism, Six…
Oriental studies at the University of Oxford has a long tradition; Barend ter Haar has held a chair in sinology there and researched Daoism and popular religion, and the …
The Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney offers courses in Chinese religion and intellectual history; scholars there research the history of Daoism a…
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…
Vincent Goossaert draws on steles, archives, and field materials to study the social history of the community of Daoist priests in Beijing during the late Qing and Republ…
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 ancestral court of the Longmen Lineage of Quanzhen, and the seat of the China Taoist Association and the China Taoist College; the Perfected Changchun, Qiu Chuji, onc…
An encyclopedia article introducing the successive compilations of the Daoist Canon (the Sandong Qionggang, the Kaiyuan Daoist Canon, the Zhenghe Wanshou Daoist Canon, th…
The Chinese-language Wikipedia entry on Daoism (道教) and its English (Taoism), Japanese (Dōkyō) and French (Taoïsme) versions, offering overviews of doctrine, history, sch…
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 …
The French Wikipedia's article on Taoism; France is a major center of Daoist studies in Europe, and the article frequently cites the works of French-language scholars suc…
The German Wikipedia's article on Daoism (Daoismus) and its related series reflect the research findings of German-language scholarship (such as the work of Florian Reite…
The Japanese Wikipedia's article on Daoism (Dōkyō) and its related series reflect the research findings and terminological conventions of Japanese Daoist studies, and are…
The Daozang category of Chinese Wikisource, containing texts of Daoist classics such as the Daodejing, the Scripture of Great Peace, the Zhouyi cantong qi, the Baopuzi an…
The Wudang Mountains Taoist Association is the organization responsible for managing the temples and religious affairs of the Wudang Mountains; the website of the Wudang …
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…
On YouTube one can find recordings of academic lectures and symposia on Daoism uploaded by various universities and research institutions (such as the Centre for Studies …
The classical-text repository of the Zdic (Hanyu) website, holding electronic texts of Daoist philosophical and religious classics such as the Daodejing, Zhuangzi, Liezi,…
The Great Dictionary of Chinese Daoism, edited by Hu Fuchen, published by China Social Sciences Press in 1995, containing about 15,000 entries arranged by category — Daoi…
A modern edition of the Daoist Canon edited in chief by Zhang Jiyu and organized and collated by the Chinese Taoist Association, in 49 volumes, based on the Zhengtong Dao…