Classical Daoist texts, the Three Caverns and Four Supplements, ritual and alchemical works, commentaries, hagiography, extra-canonical books and modern references.
Written by Zhang Boduan of the Northern Song in verse form, it expounds the principle of the dual cultivation of nature and life in internal alchemy. Together with the Zh…
Written by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin, the Inner Chapters (20 scrolls) discuss immortality, the golden elixir, ingestion of herbs and minerals, talismans and registers, a…
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…
Attributed to Liu Xiang of the Western Han (though most scholars now hold it to have been compiled in the Eastern Han), it records over seventy immortals, including Chiso…
The Michuan zhengyang zhenren lingbao bifa, attributed to a transmission from Zhongli Quan to Lü Dongbin. It is divided into the Lesser Vehicle method of peace and longev…
Compiled at the turn of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, in 268 scrolls, it gathers the thunder rites, talismans and incantations, methods for summoning generals, healing, an…
A text of some five thousand characters attributed to Laozi, divided into the Dao chapters and the De chapters across eighty-one sections. It is the foundational scriptur…
A general term for Daoist texts not included in the Zhengtong Daozang; also the title of a 36-volume anthology of the same name published by Bashu Shushe from 1992 to 199…
The complete collection of Daoist scriptures, or Daozang. The Tang dynasty first compiled the Three Caverns' Jeweled Web (Sandong Qionggang) under the Kaiyuan era; the So…
A selective compendium of the Daoist Canon compiled by Jiang Yuanting during the Jiaqing reign of the Qing and reprinted with additions by Erxian Nunnery in Chengdu durin…
Compiled by Tao Hongjing from the pronouncements and biographies recorded by Yang Xi, Xu Mi, and Xu Hui during revelations by descending Perfected Immortals, in twenty sc…
Attributed to Qiu Chuji, it lays out the methods of internal alchemy directly through nine diagrams and nine formulas, including harmonizing yin and yang, gathering and d…
Some eight hundred Daoist manuscripts of the Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang periods recovered from the Library Cave at Dunhuang, including fragments of the Xiang'er Commenta…
Written by Wang Chongyang, it sets out fifteen discourses — on dwelling in a hermitage, wandering as a cloud, studying scriptures, compounding medicines, building temples…
The Taishang lingbao wufu xu, one of the earliest scriptures of the Lingbao corpus. It was said to have been obtained by Yu the Great at Dongting, and it records the tali…
Attributed to Zhang Boduan, it comprises four hundred characters in twenty pentasyllabic rhymed stanzas, condensing the essentials of the alchemical medicines, fire phasi…
The foremost scripture of the Shangqing School, in thirty-nine chapters; through chanting and visualizing thirty-nine body gods the practitioner achieves the 'whirling an…
Compiled by the Chinese Taoist Association and the Suzhou Taoist Association, published by Huaxia Publishing House in 1994, it contains over ten thousand entries and is t…
Recorded by the disciples of Wang Changyue of the Qing from his sermons, also known as the Platform Scripture of the Jade Garden, it sets out the essentials of cultivatio…
Compiled by the retainers of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, in the Western Han, in twenty-one chapters. Predominantly Daoist in orientation but incorporating other schools of…
The Gaoshang yuhuang benxing jiajing, which appeared in the Song dynasty. It relates the original deeds of the Jade Emperor — how, as a prince of the Kingdom of Pure Blis…
Attributed to Lie Yukou, the received text in eight chapters is generally thought to have been compiled by people of the Wei-Jin period. The Tang court honored it as the …
A short Tang-dynasty treatise on cultivation, traditionally annotated by Sima Chengzhen, divided into eight chapters — immortality, simplicity, the gradual gate, fasting …
Written by Cui Xifan of the Five Dynasties in eighty-two lines of trisyllabic verse, it summarizes the gathering of the medicine and fire phasing of internal alchemy in c…
Popular religious texts that propagate the doctrine of retribution and exhort people to do good, with the Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response, the Tract on H…
The Taishang xuanling beidou benming yansheng zhenjing, which became popular in the Song dynasty. It relates how the Seven Primordial Lords of the Northern Dipper govern …
Compiled by Meng Anpai of the Tang in ten scrolls, it systematically summarizes Daoist doctrine under thirty-seven headings, including the Dao and De, the Dharma-body, th…
A Ming-dynasty work on internal alchemy attributed to a senior disciple of the Perfected Yin, divided into four collections named after the Yuan, Heng, Li, and Zhen hexag…
Compiled by the disciples of Huang Yuanji of the Qing from his lectures at the Leyu Tang in Sichuan, in five scrolls. In plain language it expounds the dual cultivation o…
The Taishang laojun shuo chang qingjing jing, which appeared in the Tang dynasty. In only four hundred characters it expounds clarity, stillness, and non-action, and the …
A scripture of salvation from calamity that appeared at the end of the Eastern Jin. It proclaims that in the final age demons and plagues will run rampant and a Perfected…
An early Eastern Han Daoist scripture, said to derive from the Taiping qingling shu in 170 scrolls presented by Yu Ji and Gong Chong; fifty-seven scrolls survive today, a…
Written by the Western Jin Daoist priest Wang Fu and later expanded to ten scrolls, it relates how Laozi traveled west and converted the barbarians, becoming the Buddha. …
The Lingbao wuliang duren shangpin miaojing, the foremost scripture of the Lingbao School. It proclaims that the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning opens the kalpa …
The Huangdi yinfu jing, just over three hundred characters, appeared in the Tang dynasty (though some hold it to be earlier). It expounds the principle of mutual 'pilferi…
The Sanhuang wen, a talismanic scripture that flourished in the Jin dynasty. It was said to have been obtained by Bao Jing from a stone chamber on Mount Song, and it is t…
Divided into the Inner Effulgences and Outer Effulgences scriptures, this Wei-Jin Shangqing visualization text describes in heptasyllabic verse the names of the gods resi…
Transmitted by the Louguan School, it purports to record the words Laozi gave to Yin Xi upon his western ascension. Fusing the thought of Laozi and Zhuangzi with Buddhist…
Written by Liu Huayang of the Qing, it fuses Chan Buddhist methods with internal alchemy, describing through illustrations and text the stages of exhausting the outflows,…
Compiled by Zhang Junfang of the Northern Song in 122 scrolls, it is a digest of the Precious Canon of the Celestial Palace of the Great Song, excerpting Daoist scripture…
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…
The classification system of the Daoist Canon: the Three Caverns are the Cavern of Perfection (i.e. Shangqing), the Cavern of Mystery (i.e. Lingbao), and the Cavern of Sp…
A morality book that appeared at the end of the Northern Song, in just over a thousand characters. It holds that 'misfortune and fortune have no gate of their own — each …
Written by Sima Chengzhen of the Tang, it is divided into seven chapters — reverent faith, severing entanglements, gathering the mind, simplifying affairs, true contempla…
Written by Wu Yun of the Tang in thirty-three chapters, it discusses the Dao and De, heaven and earth, nature and emotion, and the attainability of immortality, arguing t…
The subdivisions under each section of the Three Caverns: root texts, divine talismans, jade instructions, numinous diagrams, genealogical records, precepts, dignified ob…
A supplement to the Daoist Canon compiled by imperial order under the fiftieth Celestial Master Zhang Guoxiang in the thirty-fifth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming (16…
A morality tract said to have been revealed by Lord Wenchang, composed around the Song-Yuan transition. It urges people to perform hidden virtue widely, and together with…
Attributed to Wenzi, a disciple of Laozi, it was honored by the Tang court as the Tongxuan zhenjing. It frequently cites Laozi's words to expound the principles of Dao, D…
An early Celestial Masters commentary on the Daodejing, traditionally attributed to Zhang Daoling or Zhang Lu; the first half survives in a Dunhuang fragment (S.6825). It…
The Daoist Canon completed in the tenth year of the Zhengtong reign of the Ming (1445), compiled under the forty-third Celestial Master Zhang Yuchu, Zhang Yuqing, and oth…
Compiled by Shi Jianwu of the Five Dynasties, it systematically expounds the theory of internal alchemy in the form of a dialogue between Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin, com…
A modern critical edition published by Huaxia Publishing House in 2004 and edited by Zhang Jiyu, in 49 volumes; it reorganizes and punctuates the texts of the Zhengtong D…
Written by Wei Boyang of the Eastern Han, it correlates the hexagrams and lines of the Zhouyi (Book of Changes), Huang-Lao thought, and the furnace methods of alchemy. Wr…
Composed by Zhuang Zhou and his later followers, the received text comprises thirty-three chapters (seven Inner Chapters, fifteen Outer Chapters, and eleven Miscellaneous…
《清微丹诀》一卷，分合道、入室、临坛、发用四门，附清微坐功，是清微派把内丹学与雷法打通的纲领文本。其核心命题：「玄关一窍，乃先天一炁，此万法之宗、金丹之枢纽」——并明言此先天一炁在神霄谓之「真王」、在雷法谓之「雷祖」：内丹所炼与雷法所召，本是同一物。又云「法中之要，非专于符，非泥于咒，先以我之正气，合将之灵……故德者道之符，诚者法之本」「…
The Guwen longhu jing (Ancient Text of the Dragon and Tiger Scripture) is presented as the source text on which Wei Boyang's Zhouyi cantong qi was based, but is in fact a…
The Zhonghe ji (Anthology of Central Harmony) is a collection of treatises, poems and prose by Li Daochun (styled Qing'an, also Yingchanzi), an internal-alchemy master of…
The Cuixu pian (Anthology of Cuixu) is a collection of alchemical poetry and prose by Chen Nan (styled Cuixu, also Niwan), fourth patriarch of the Southern Lineage, conta…
The Panxi ji (Anthology of Panxi) is a collection of poetry and lyrics by Qiu Chuji (styled Changchunzi), in six juan, containing over five hundred poems, lyrics and eulo…
The Zhonglü chuandao ji (Anthology of Zhongli Quan's Transmission of the Dao to Lü Dongbin) systematically expounds the theory of internal alchemy in the form of question…
The Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality) is a collection of internal-alchemy poems by Zhang Boduan of the Northern Song, ranked together with the Zhouyi cantong qi as the t…
The Baopuzi Inner Chapters is Ge Hong's systematic theoretical work summarizing the immortality arts transmitted from the Han and Wei onward, and the representative scrip…
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 Divine Immortals is a collection of immortal biographies written by Ge Hong following his Baopuzi: Inner Chapters; he relates that because his disciple…
Biographies of Encounters with Divine Immortals is devoted specifically to accounts of chance encounters between ordinary mortals and immortals leading to attainment of t…
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…
The Biographies of Grotto Immortals was originally in ten chapters, of which only the one chapter included in scroll 110 of the Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds…
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…
The Biography of the Perfected Lord Xu records the life and wonders of Xu Xun (c. 239–374) of the Eastern Jin: styled Jingzhi, a native of Nanchang, he once served as mag…
The Catalogue of Scriptures Missing from the Daoist Canon (Daozang quejing mulu), in two scrolls, is included in the Taiping section of the Zhengtong Daozang and is devot…
The Catalogue of the Scriptures of the Seven Sections of the Jade Weft is an important comprehensive catalogue of Daoist scriptures following Lu Xiujing's Catalogue of th…
The Catalogue of the Scriptures of the Three Caverns is the first formal comprehensive catalogue of Daoist scriptures in history, compiled by Lu Xiujing at imperial comma…
Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities is the most comprehensive English-language monograph on the early Way of the Celestial Masters. Kleeman …
The Central Scripture of Laozi, also called the Pearl Palace and Jade Calendar, is one of the earliest surviving Daoist scriptures to describe the spirits within the huma…
Chapter 27, "Nourishing Nature" (Yangxing), of the Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies (Beiji qianjin yaofang) is the summa of Tang-dynasty nourishin…
The Tiandi Gongfu Tu (Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth) is the earliest surviving text to systematically arrange the Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands,…
Cheng Xuanying's Subcommentary on the Zhuangzi is the subcommentary written on Guo Xiang's commentary by Cheng Xuanying, the great master of Chongxuan (Twofold Mystery) l…
The Chronological Biographies of the Seven Perfected (Qizhen nianpu), in one scroll, records year by year in annalistic form the births, deaths, ordinations, teaching act…
The Classic of Filial Piety of Lord Wenchang purports to have been transmitted through spirit-writing by Wenchang Dijun, composed in imitation of the format of the Confuc…
The Collected Compilation on the Treatise on Action and Response is the most widely circulated and voluminous of the many commentarial editions of the Treatise of the Mos…
The Collected Texts on Female Alchemy is an anthology assembled by He Longxiang in the late Qing bringing together texts on female internal-alchemical cultivation, includ…
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 Chongyang Quanzhen ji (Collected Works of Wang Chongyang on Complete Perfection) is a collection of Wang Chongyang's poetry and prose, in thirteen juan, containing ov…
Commentary on the Song of the Reverted Elixir of the Perfected Yin consists of an alchemical song attributed to the Han-dynasty immortal Yin Changsheng, together with a c…
The Compass Pointing to the Center (Guizhong zhinan) is a set of essential formulas for internal alchemy by the Yuan-dynasty alchemist Chen Chongsu, in two scrolls. The u…
The Youxiang Liexian Quanzhuan (Complete Illustrated Biographies of Immortals) in nine scrolls is the largest illustrated collection of immortal biographies from the Ming…
The Complete Collection of Daoist Ritual Protocols, attributed to the editorial hand of Du Guangting, is a compendium of retreat and offering ritual texts from the late T…
The Lingbao bifa (Complete Methods of the Numinous Treasure) is attributed to Zhongli Quan, said to have composed it from a Lingbao jing he obtained from a stone wall on …
The Complete Works of Patriarch Lü (Lüzu quanshu) is a Qing-dynasty compendium gathering scriptures, poetry, and spirit-writing revelations attributed to Lü Dongbin; Liu …
The Complete Works of Zhang Sanfeng is a collected edition of Zhang Sanfeng's writings compiled by Li Xiyue in the Qing dynasty, in eight chapters, containing the Treatis…
The Wudang Fudi Zongzhen Ji (Comprehensive Collection of the Perfected of the Blessed Land of Wudang), in three juan, is the earliest surviving gazetteer of the Wudang Mo…
The Lishi zhenxian tidao tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror of Immortals Who Embodied the Dao through the Ages), abbreviated Xianjian, is the largest-scale collective biograp…
The Concealed Instructions for Ascending to Perfection (Dengzhen yinjue) is Tao Hongjing's compilation of Shangqing scriptural instructions, in which he classified, arran…
The five-scroll Laolao Hengyan (老老恒言, Constant Words on Caring for the Aged) was written by Cao Tingdong, a native of Jiashan in the Qing dynasty, and is the most systema…
The Corpus of Daoist Ritual is the largest compendium of talismanic and ritual methods in the Daoist Canon, in 268 juan, gathering the Thunder Rites and ritual methods of…
The Shangqing Tianxin Zhengfa (Correct Rites of the Celestial Heart of Shangqing) is a seven-fascicle ritual manual of the Tianxin Zhengfa (Correct Method of the Celestia…
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…
The Daodejing is the most fundamental classic of Daoist philosophy and religion, traditionally attributed to Lao Dan, Historian-Archivist of the Zhou royal library. The w…
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 Daoist Canon of the Kaiyuan Era is the first Daoist Canon in history to be compiled and promulgated throughout the realm under state sponsorship. Emperor Xuanzong of …
The Daoist Canon of the Zhengtong Era (Zhengtong Daozang) is the only complete premodern Daoist canon still in existence, and is the fundamental body of literature for th…
Daoist Texts outside the Canon is the most important modern facsimile compendium of Daoist texts, edited by Hu Daojing, Chen Yaoting, Duan Wengui, Lin Wanqing, and others…
The Treatise on the Origins and Symptoms of Diseases is the first systematic Chinese treatise on the causes and mechanisms of disease, compiled by imperial order by Chao …
The Declarations of the Perfected (Zhengao) is the fundamental text of the Shangqing School, compiled by Tao Hongjing from the handwritten records of "declarations descen…
Descriptive Notes on the Daoist Canon (Daozang tiyao) is the first descriptive catalogue in the Chinese-speaking world to examine every text in the Daozang individually, …
The Dharma Words of the Primordial Sovereign Sun Bu'er is attributed to Sun Bu'er, patriarch of the Quanzhen Qingjing (Clarity and Stillness) Lineage, and contains fourte…
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 Digest of Essential Rites, Regulations and Precepts is a Daoist compendium of ritual regulations and precepts compiled by Zhu Faman, a Daoist priest of Yuqing Temple …
The Taiping Jing Chao (Excerpts from the Scripture of Great Peace) is an abridgment compiled by the late-Tang Tiantai Daoist priest Lüqiu Fangyuan, excerpting one fascicl…
Direct Discourse on the True Principles of Celestial Immortality (Tianxian zhengli zhilun) is the principal work in which Wu Shouyang (sobriquet Chongxuzi), of the Longme…
Direct Pointers to Awakening to Reality (Wuzhen zhizhi) is the Longmen-Lineage alchemist Liu Yiming's (sobriquet Wuyuanzi) commentary on Zhang Boduan's Awakening to Reali…
The Dadan zhizhi (Direct Pointers to the Great Elixir), attributed to Qiu Chuji, patriarch of the Quanzhen Longmen lineage, is an important text on the practical cultivat…
About eight hundred Daoist manuscripts were unearthed from the Library Cave at Dunhuang, direct physical witnesses to Daoist scriptures of the Tang and earlier, predating…
Early Daoist Scriptures is a landmark work of English translation and scholarship on early Daoist texts. Bokenkamp selected key scriptures of Six Dynasties Daoism and tra…
The Eight Discourses on Nurturing Life (Zunsheng bajian) is the summa of literati health-preservation learning in the Ming dynasty, compiled by the Hangzhou man of letter…
Elucidating the Truth of the Book of Changes (Zhouyi chanzhen) is Liu Yiming's work interpreting the Zhouyi (Book of Changes) through the lens of alchemical teaching; it …
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (Li Longji) revered Daoism and honored Laozi as the Mysterious Primordial Emperor. He personally composed a commentary on the Daodejing, promulga…
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 …
Chen Yingning, an advocate of “Immortality Studies” (Xianxue) during the Republican era and later president of the Chinese Taoist Association, used modern language to org…
Essentials for Cultivating Longevity (Xiuling yaozhi), in one scroll, by Leng Qian of the Ming, is one of the most concise and practical handbooks of health preservation …
The Essentials of the Daoist Canon (Daozang jiyao) is the most important compendium of Daoist texts from the Qing dynasty. Two accounts exist of its compilation: one hold…
The Established Regulations of the Daoist Community is a compendium of retreat and offering documents and ritual regulations compiled by Lü Yuansu of the Southern Song, i…
Extended Meaning of the Tract on Hidden Merit is a commentary on the Tract on Hidden Merit composed by the Qing-dynasty lay Buddhist Zhou Mengyan (style name Siren, sobri…
The Chongyang lijiao shiwu lun (Fifteen Discourses of Wang Chongyang on Establishing the Teaching) is a summary of practice set out by the founder of Quanzhen Daoism, Wan…
The Huangdi Sijing (Four Classics of Huangdi) comprises four ancient lost texts found at the head of manuscript B of the Laozi among the Mawangdui silk manuscripts, and i…
The Jindan sibai zi (Four Hundred Words on the Golden Elixir) is traditionally held to be alchemical instructions that Zhang Boduan transmitted to his disciple Ma Chuhou,…
Mount Lao, in Qingdao, Shandong, rises beside the Yellow Sea and is a famous Daoist mountain long known as 'the foremost famous mountain upon the sea'; the Quanzhen Suish…
The Gazetteer of Mount Longhu records the history of Mount Longhu in Guixi, Jiangxi — the ancestral seat of Zhengyi Daoism and the residence of successive generations of …
Mount Luofu, in Boluo, Guangdong, is the seventh of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens, the Heaven of Vermilion Brilliance and Manifest Perfection. Ge Hong built a hermitage th…
The Gazetteer of Mount Mao is one of the most complete and rigorously organized of the surviving Daoist mountain gazetteers, recording the full history of Mount Mao (Moun…
Mount Qingcheng, in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, is the fifth of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens, the Heaven of Nine Chambers of Precious Immortals. Tradition holds that Zhang Daoli…
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 Gazetteer of the Wanshou Palace on Mount Xiaoyao, in twenty-two scrolls, records the history, institutions, and cult of Xu Xun at the Yulong Wanshou Palace on Mount X…
Xishan refers to Mount Xiaoyao in Xinjian, Nanchang, Jiangxi, the site where Xu Xun (Perfected Lord Xu) is said to have cultivated the Dao and ascended to Heaven, and the…
Baiyun Guan in Beijing, the ancestral court of the Longmen Lineage of Quanzhen Daoism and the seat of the Chinese Taoist Association, had its predecessors in the Tang-dyn…
The Genealogy of the Han Celestial Masters is the official lineage record of the Zhengyi Celestial Masters of Mount Longhu. Beginning with the first-generation Celestial …
The Qingwei Xianpu (Genealogy of the Immortals of the Qingwei Tradition) is a one-fascicle genealogy of the Qingwei school's patriarchal transmission, compiled by Chen Ca…
The Golden Book of Salvation according to the Lingbao Tradition is the largest compendium of ritual in the Daoist Canon, attributed to the transmission of Ning Quanzhen o…
The Great Clarity Methods for Abstaining from Grain (Taiqing jing duangu fa), in one scroll, is devoted entirely to methods of grain avoidance (bigu — abstaining from gra…
The Great Clarity Scripture of Daoyin and Nourishing Life is an important text in the Daoist Canon devoted specifically to recording daoyin exercises, gathering together …
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…
There are two principal works sharing the title Daojiao Dacidian (Great Dictionary of Daoism). The first was edited by Li Shuhuan and published by the Chuliu Book Company…
The Jindan dayao (Great Essentials of the Golden Elixir) is the monumental work in which the Yuan internal alchemist Chen Zhixu (styled Shangyangzi) systematically summed…
The Great Precepts of Celestial Immortality form the third altar of the Quanzhen Three Altars of Great Precepts, also called the "Great Precepts of Celestial Immortality …
Jin Yunzhong's recension of the Great Rites of Shangqing Lingbao is the culminating work of Southern Song Lingbao ritual, in forty-five juan. Jin Yunzhong was a Southern …
Wang Qizhen's recension of the Great Rites of Shangqing Lingbao, in sixty-six scrolls, is a systematic compilation of the Lingbao methods of the Donghua tradition transmi…
《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 Guanyinzi is attributed to Yin Xi, the Warden of Hangu Pass, the legendary figure said to have asked Laozi to write the Daodejing. The received text, in nine chapters…
Guo Xiang's Commentary on the Zhuangzi is the earliest complete extant commentary on the Zhuangzi, and also a summa of Wei–Jin Dark Learning (xuanxue). Guo Xiang condense…
The Heart Methods of the Dragon Gate Lineage is a record of the dharma-talks given by Wang Changyue, seventh-generation precept master of the Quanzhen Longmen Lineage, in…
The Heguanzi is a work combining Daoist and Military-School thought from the state of Chu in the late Warring States period; the author took his name from wearing a cap o…
The Heshanggong Commentary on the Laozi is one of the earliest surviving and most widely circulated commentaries on the Daodejing. Tradition holds that Heshanggong ('Mast…
Qing Xitai's four-volume Zhongguo Daojiao Shi (History of Chinese Daoism), collectively compiled by the Institute for Religious Studies of Sichuan University, was publish…
Ren Jiyu's Zhongguo Daojiao Shi (History of Chinese Daoism), published by Shanghai People's Publishing House in 1990, was the first continuous general history of Daoism p…
The four-volume Zhongguo Daojiao Sixiang Shi (History of Chinese Daoist Thought), edited by Qing Xitai with Zhan Shichuang as deputy editor, was published by People's Pub…
The eighteen-juan Daishi (History of Mount Dai), compiled by Zha Zhilong of the Ming, is the earliest comparatively complete surviving gazetteer of Mount Tai. Mount Tai, …
The Huainanzi is a summa of early Western Han Huang-Lao Daoist thought, compiled by scholars and masters of methods gathered by Liu An, Prince of Huainan; it takes Daoism…
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 Inner Biographies of the Immortals of the Ancestral Court on Mount Zhongnan (Zhongnanshan zuting xianzhen neizhuan), in three scrolls, is devoted to the deeds of seve…
Instructions on the Heart-Elixir Scripture of the Upper Cavern (Shangdong xindan jingjue), in three scrolls, is a Tang-dynasty text combining external alchemy, ingestion,…
The Huangdi jiuding shendan jingjue (Instructions on the Yellow Emperor's Nine-Tripod Divine Elixir) is among the most important surviving classics of external alchemy. S…
The Xinyin jing (Mind Seal Scripture) consists of two hundred characters in tetrasyllabic verse, and is Daoism's most concise summary outline of internal alchemy; the Qua…
The Jade Mirror of Lingbao is a compendium of Lingbao retreat and offering ritual essentials compiled in the Yuan dynasty, in 43 juan, its title "Jade Mirror" likening th…
The Journey to the West of the Perfected Changchun is the record kept by Li Zhichang, a disciple of Qiu Chuji, of his master's journey in answer to the summons of Chinggi…
The Later Collection of the Comprehensive Mirror of Immortals Who Embodied the Dao through the Ages (Lishi zhenxian tidao tongjian houji), in six scrolls, is the largest …
Lectures on the Daodejing is Huang Yuanji's chapter-by-chapter exposition of the Daodejing according to the principles of internal-alchemical cultivation, forming a compl…
'Ledgers of Merit and Demerit for Admonishing the World' is a general term for the large number of admonitory ledger-of-merit-and-demerit morality books printed during th…
The Ledger of Merit and Demerit of the Immortal Lord of Taiwei is the earliest surviving "ledger of merit and demerit" (gongguoge), a moral account book that records good…
Liaofan's Four Lessons is a Ming-dynasty book of instruction that Yuan Huang wrote for his son, divided into four chapters: "The Study of Establishing One's Destiny," "Th…
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…
Lineage of the Perfected, compiled by Li Bo of the Tang, is a genealogy of Shangqing transmission, preserved today in fascicle 5, 'Section on the Transmission of Scriptur…
Lu Xiujing was the founder of Daoist retreat and offering ritual; while editing the scriptures of the Three Caverns he also drew on the ancient Lingbao scriptures to esta…
The Liturgies of the Yellow Register Retreat is the master compilation of Yellow Register Retreat ritual, edited by Du Guangting on the basis of the earlier liturgies of …
Lord Lao's Instructions on Nourishing Life, in one fascicle, is brief but focused in content: it opens with the general principles of nourishing life, stating that 'the b…
Lü Dongbin's Hundred-Character Stele (Baizi bei) is a twenty-line pentasyllabic alchemical formula attributed to Lü Dongbin: 'Nurture qi, forgetting words, and hold fast;…
The Master of Heavenly Seclusion (Tianyinzi) is a short Tang-dynasty Daoist treatise on cultivation, in eight chapters: Immortals, Ease and Simplicity, the Gradual Gate, …
The Ruyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine), also known as the Cui Gong ruyao jing, is a set of internal-alchemy verse instructions composed by Cui Xifan of the …
The Sandong zhunang (Pearl Satchel of the Three Caverns) is a Daoist encyclopedic compilation assembled in the early Tang; organized by topic, it excerpts from the script…
The Pearls Left Behind from the Sea of Rituals is a compendium of ritual methods assembled in the Yuan–Ming transition, in 46 juan; similar in nature to the Corpus of Dao…
Pengzu's Treatise on Preserving Health and Nourishing Nature is attributed to the legendarily long-lived Pengzu, and is a brief general treatise on nourishing life. It pr…
The Perfect Scripture of the Great Cavern of Highest Clarity (Shangqing dadong zhenjing) is the foremost scripture of the Shangqing corpus; its "thirty-nine chapters" cor…
The Perfected Sun's Treatise on Preserving Health (Sun zhenren sheyang lun), in one scroll, lists what to do and avoid for health preservation month by month through the …
Pillowbook Methods for Preserving Health is attributed to Sun Simiao, divided into sections on Self-Discipline, Prohibitions, Daoyin, Ingesting Qi, Guarding the One, and …
The Pivot of Meaning of the Daoist Teaching (Daojiao yishu) is a compendium of Daoist doctrine compiled by the Tang priest Meng Anpai of Qingxi, expounding fundamental Da…
The Daoshu (Pivot of the Dao) is a Daoist encyclopedic compilation of cultivation methods compiled by Zeng Zao of the Southern Song, in forty-two juan and 108 chapters, b…
The Platform Scripture of the Jade Garden is an alternative name for the Heart Methods of the Dragon Gate Lineage, so called because Wang Changyue set up an altar at the …
The Precept Scripture of the Most High Lord Lao is presented as precepts spoken by Laozi to Yin Xi as he passed through the pass, proclaiming Daoism's 'Five Precepts' (ag…
The Chuzhen Jielü (Precepts of Initial Perfection) is the precept text for the first of the "Three Altars of Great Precepts" (santan dajie) established by the early-Qing …
The Precepts of Medium Ultimate, in full the Precepts of Medium Ultimate: Great Precepts of Shangqing Dongzhen Wisdom on Contemplating the Body, form the second altar of …
The Precious Canon of the Celestial Palace of the Great Song is the Daoist Canon compiled under state sponsorship in the early Northern Song. Emperor Zhenzong of Song, a …
The Precious Canon of the Mysterious Metropolis (Yuan) (Xuandu baozang) is the largest Daoist canon in history. The Quanzhen Daoist Song Defang (sobriquet Pi Yunzi, a dis…
The Precious Canon of the Mysterious Metropolis of the Great Jin (Dajin xuandu baozang) is the Daoist canon compiled under the Jin dynasty. After the Jin took Bianjing, t…
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…
The Preface to the Five Talismans of Lingbao is the fountainhead text of the Lingbao scriptural lineage, and it is from this work that the name "Lingbao" (Numinous Treasu…
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 Quanzhen Qinggui (Pure Rules of Complete Perfection) is a one-fascicle compilation of Quanzhen monastic regulations compiled by Lu Daohe in the Yuan dynasty, the earl…
The Dongtian Fudi Yuedu Mingshan Ji (Record of Grotto-Heavens, Blessed Lands, Marchmounts, Rivers and Famous Mountains) is the definitive text of Daoist sacred geography.…
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…
The Record of the Essence of the Daoist Canon is a selection of Daoist texts compiled by the renowned modern bibliophile and physician Ding Fubao, published in 1922 by th…
The Xuanzhu lu (Record of the Mysterious Pearl) is the recorded sayings of Wang Xuanlan, a Daoist priest of Mianzhu in the early Tang, compiled and prefaced by his discip…
The Record of the Orthodox Lineage of the Golden Lotus (Jinlian zhengzong ji) is the earliest formal historiographical biography of the Quanzhen tradition, providing biog…
《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 Record of the Ten Continents within the Seas is presented as Dongfang Shuo's reply to a question of Emperor Wu of the Han, and describes in turn the ten sea-borne imm…
The Recorded Sayings from the Hall of Joyful Cultivation collects the sayings on the Dao given by Huang Yuanji (personal name Shang), a Daoist of Fengcheng, Jiangxi, in t…
The Danyang zhenren yulu (Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Danyang) compiles the teachings of Ma Yu (styled Danyangzi), foremost of the Quanzhen Seven Perfected, edited …
The Qinghe zhenren beiyou yulu (Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Qinghe on the Northern Journey) compiles the teachings given to disciples by Qiu Chuji's successor, Yin …
The Panshan Yulu (盘山语录, Recorded Sayings of Wang Zhijin of Mount Pan) compiles the sayings of the Quanzhen priest Wang Zhijin (a disciple of Hao Datong, sobriquet Qiyun) …
Recorded Sayings on the Union of Immortals and Buddhas (Xianfo hezong yulu) is a record of Wu Shouyang's oral teaching of alchemical method to his disciples, answering sp…
Records of Daoist Miraculous Efficacy is the most important collection of Daoist miracle-tales from the Tang and Five Dynasties, compiled by Du Guangting, gathering sever…
Records of Extraordinary Persons of the Jiang-Huai Region, in two fascicles, was written by Wu Shu, a prominent official-scholar of the early Northern Song who took part …
Records of Nourishing Nature and Extending Life is the most systematic surviving compendium of life-nourishing arts from the Six Dynasties, divided into six sections: Adm…
The Yongcheng jixian lu (Records of the Assembled Immortals of the Fortified Walled City) is China's first collective biographical compilation devoted exclusively to fema…
The Xishan qunxian huizhen ji (Records of the Assembled Immortals of the Western Hills) is one of the three books of Zhong–Lü elixir methods, attributed to the "Perfected…
The Records of the Immortal Stream of Ganshui (Ganshui xianyuan lu) is a general compilation of Quanzhen stele inscriptions, edited by Li Daoqian, who served as prior of …
The Register of the Cinnamon of Cinnabar is a Qing-dynasty compilation of morality-book texts centered on the cult of Wenchang Dijun; 'cinnabar cinnamon' (dangui) alludes…
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 Reprinted Essentials of the Daoist Canon is an enlarged and revised reprint of the Essentials of the Daoist Canon, published in the thirty-second year of the Guangxu …
The Huandan fuming pian (Restoring the Elixir and Returning to Life) is a collection of internal-alchemy poems by Xue Daoguang, third patriarch of the Southern Lineage, w…
The Qingwei Zhaifa (Retreat Rites of the Qingwei Tradition) is a Yuan-dynasty ritual manual of the Qingwei school in two fascicles, recording the procedures and essential…
The Huanyuan pian (Returning to the Source) is a collection of internal-alchemy poems by Shi Tai (styled Xinglin), second patriarch of the Southern Lineage, comprising ei…
The Rites for Leaving the Family and Transmission of Ordination is a ritual manual for the ordination of Daoist priests written by the Northern Song Daoist Jia Shanxiang,…
The Dingguan jing (Scripture of Concentration and Observation) takes the two characters ding (concentration) and guan (observation) as its guiding thread, teaching that t…
The Qingjing jing (Scripture of Constant Clarity and Stillness) runs to only a little over 390 characters in total, and is one of the most frequently recited short script…
The Taishang Dongyuan Shenzhou Jing (Scripture of Divine Incantations of the Cavernous Abyss) is the scripture of the popular Daoist ‘Dongyuan (Cavernous Abyss)’ traditio…
The Taiping Jing (Scripture of Great Peace) is the earliest and longest of the surviving early Daoist scriptures, and the intellectual source of the Way of Great Peace (T…
The Neiguan jing (Scripture of Inner Observation) is attributed to the Most High Lord Lao and is a representative short scripture of Tang-dynasty Daoist cultivation of mi…
The Scripture of Laozi's Conversion of the Barbarians is a scripture produced by Daoism in the course of its disputes with Buddhism, claiming that after Laozi passed west…
The Xisheng jing (Scripture of Laozi's Western Ascension) is presented as the words spoken by Laozi to the pass-keeper Yin Xi when he journeyed west and departed through …
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 Dignified Observances of Orthodox Unity is a text of the Way of the Celestial Masters (Zhengyi) setting out the norms of dignified conduct for Daoist…
The Taiqing jinye shendan jing (Scripture of the Divine Elixir of Liquefied Gold of Great Clarity) belongs to the "Taiqing" lineage of external-alchemy scriptures, and to…
The Jiutian Shengshen Zhang jing (Scripture of the Nine Heavens' Stanzas of Life-Giving Spirit) is an important scripture among the ancient Lingbao scriptures, describing…
The Beidou jing (Scripture of the Northern Dipper for Prolonging Life) tells how the Supreme Venerable Sovereign (Laojun) descended at the Yuju site in Chengdu and expoun…
The Benji jing (Scripture of the Original Bound) was one of the most widely circulated doctrinal scriptures of Daoism at the turn of the Sui and Tang; nearly a hundred ma…
The Yuhuang jing, in full the Scripture of the Original Deeds of the Jade Emperor (Gaoshang yuhuang benxing ji jing), is a scripture that appeared after the rise of the c…
《元始天尊说北方真武妙经》是真武（玄天上帝）信仰最核心的「本传」经典，经中元始天尊为妙行真人说真武来历：净乐国王与善胜皇后梦吞日光，怀胎十四月，于开皇元年三月初三日诞太子于王宫；太子「生而神灵，长而勇猛，不统王位，唯务修行」，誓断天下妖魔，遂辞父母入武当山修道四十二年，功成果满，白日登天，玉帝敕镇北方，统摄真武之位；又敕真武率天兵下界收断…
The Perfected Writs in Red Script of the Five Elders is a core scripture among the ancient Lingbao texts, placed first among all the scriptures in Lu Xiujing's Catalogue …
The Scripture of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) is the foundational scripture of the Dongshen (Cavern of Spirit) Section among the Daoist "Three Caverns," standing a…
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 Haikong Zhizang jing (Scripture of the Wisdom Treasury of Ocean-Emptiness) is a Daoist doctrinal scripture composed by the Tang-dynasty Chongxuan school in imitation …
The Scripture of the Yellow Court and Hidden Stem Methods for the Body, in one fascicle, combines the body-god visualization tradition of the Scripture of the Yellow Cour…
The Scripture of the Yellow Court: Inner Effulgences (Huangting neijing jing) is the most important scripture of visualization practice in the Shangqing School, composed …
The Scripture of the Yellow Court: Outer Effulgences (Huangting waijing jing) is one of the two Huangting Jing texts, composed in seven-syllable rhymed verse and about ha…
The Scripture of Wisdom and Life (Huiming jing) is a work of Liu Huayang's later years, which takes the Buddhist term 'wisdom-life' (huiming) to denote the pre-celestial …
The Scripture of Wisdom, Fixing the Will, and Penetrating the Subtle is one of the ancient Lingbao scriptures, presented in the form of a dialogue between the Most High L…
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…
The Taishang Zhuguo Jiumin Zongzhen Biyao (Secret Essentials of the Assembled Perfected for Aiding the State and Saving the People) is a Tianxin Zhengfa ritual manual com…
《清微神烈秘法》二卷，出自元末武当山清微道士之手，是武当清微一系（张守清法脉）的代表性法本。分〈雷奥秘论〉〈师派〉〈圣位〉〈习定坐法〉〈祈祷建四溟外坛式〉〈符命一宗〉诸门。〈雷奥秘论〉立论「万法以心为正……其妙乃以吾神合彼神，吾灵合彼灵……静则是道，动则是法」，并述元始一炁分梵、清、景三炁的雷法宇宙论，称人间清微雷法为「下品灵书，应世宗师…
The Qinghua miwen (Secret Text of the Azure Florescence), attributed to Zhang Boduan, explains in detail the mind-nature and the practical work of internal-alchemical cul…
The Selected Daoist Texts Series (Daojiao Dianji Xuankan) is a series of critically collated and annotated Daoist classics published by Zhonghua Book Company, appearing s…
The Lishi zhenxian tidao tongjian xubian (Sequel to the Comprehensive Mirror of Immortals), in five juan, supplements thirty-four Daoist figures of the Song–Yuan transiti…
The Daomen Jingfa Xiangcheng Cixu (Sequence of the Transmission of Daoist Scriptures and Methods) records the dialogue in which Emperor Gaozong of Tang travelled to Mount…
The Yunji Qiqian (Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds) is a Daoist compendium compiled by Zhang Junfang of the Northern Song on the basis of his collation of the D…
The Shangqing Scriptural Corpus is a body of "descended revelation" scriptures formed in the mid-Eastern Jin between the Xu clan of Jurong and the medium Yang Xi, later h…
The Song of the Great Dao from the Numinous Source (Lingyuan dadao ge) is a long heptasyllabic poem of 128 lines by the Northern Song Daoist priestess Cao Wenyi, and is o…
The Zhongnanshan Shuojingtai Lidai Zhenxian Beiji (Stele Records of Perfected Immortals through the Ages at the Scripture Platform on Mount Zhongnan), in one juan, record…
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…
The Xu xian zhuan (Supplementary Biographies of Immortals) is a collection of immortal biographies compiled around the Tang–Five Dynasties transition; the author, Shen Fe…
The Supplementary Daoist Canon of the Wanli Era (Wanli xu Daozang) was compiled and printed by imperial edict in the thirty-fifth year of the Wanli reign of Emperor Shenz…
The Wushang Biyao (Supreme Secret Essentials) is the earliest surviving Daoist encyclopedic compilation, commissioned by Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, who after suppressin…
Talks on the Aperture of the Dao and the Secret Purport of the Three Vehicles are the representative works of Li Xiyue (sobriquet Hanxu), founder of the Western Lineage o…
Isabelle Robinet's Histoire du taoïsme (translated into English as Taoism: Growth of a Religion) is one of the most influential general histories of Daoism in the West. T…
The Xiuzhen shishu (Ten Books on the Cultivation of Perfection) is a compendium of internal-alchemy literature assembled in the Yuan dynasty, in sixty juan, gathering tog…
The Encyclopedia of Taoism is the most comprehensive Daoist encyclopedia in the English-speaking world, chief-edited by the Italian-born scholar Fabrizio Pregadio with co…
The Rootless Tree consists of twenty-four alchemical lyrics attributed to Zhang Sanfeng, using the “rootless tree” as a metaphor for the human body and the alchemical Way…
The Secret of the Golden Flower (Taiyi jinhua zongzhi) is said to have been revealed through Lü Dongbin, and is an internal-alchemy scripture that emerged from spirit-wri…
The Taoist Body (French original title Le corps taoïste) is a classic work of Western Daoist studies. Kristofer Schipper conducted long-term fieldwork in southern Taiwan …
The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang is a landmark reference work of Western Daoist studies, co-edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen wi…
The Wu-Liu School of Immortality (Wuliu xianzong) is a compendium combining the alchemical writings of Wu Shouyang of the late Ming and Liu Huayang of the Qing; the stand…
Title Index to Daoist Collections is a practical reference tool for locating Daoist texts, edited by Louis Komjathy and published by Three Pines Press in 2002. The book c…
The Tract on Hidden Merit of Lord Wenchang, together with the Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response and the True Scripture of Awakening the World by Lord Guan,…
The Taishang ganying pian (Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response) is the most widely circulated Daoist morality book in China; its opening lines, 'Fortune and …
The Treatise on Sitting in Oblivion (Zuowang lun) is the celebrated work of the Tang Shangqing patriarch Sima Chengzhen on the stages of cultivating the Dao, centered on …
The Treatise on the Essential Meaning of Ingesting Qi (Fuqi jingyi lun) is Sima Chengzhen's specialized work on health preservation through the ingestion of qi, in nine c…
The Treatise on the Mysterious Guideline (Xuangang lun) is a work by the eminent Tang priest Wu Yun systematically expounding Daoist philosophy and the theory of cultivat…
The Treatise on the Substance of the Dao (Daoti lun) is a short philosophical treatise of the Tang Chongxuan (Twofold Mystery) school discussing the ontology of the Dao, …
The True Scripture of Awakening the World by Lord Guan is one of the "Three Sage Scriptures," the morality books of the Ming and Qing periods, attributed to Guan Yu (Lord…
The True Transmission of the Golden Elixir (Jindan zhenzhuan) records the alchemical formulas transmitted by Sun Ruzhong of the Ming dynasty, who states in his own prefac…
True Words Singing the Dao (Changdao zhenyan) is a work on internal alchemy produced at Qing-dynasty spirit-writing altars, said to have been transmitted through the brus…
Twelve Daoist Books is the collected works of Liu Yiming, eleventh-generation patriarch of the Longmen Lineage in the Qing dynasty. Though named "twelve," the standard ed…
The Fanghu waishi (Unofficial History of Fanghu) is the collected writings of Lu Xixing (styled Qianxu), founder of the Eastern Lineage of internal alchemy in the Ming, c…
Verified Discourse on the Golden Immortal (Jinxian zhenglun) is the representative work of the Qing-dynasty Buddhist monk and Internal Alchemy master Liu Huayang, and tog…
Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi is a foundational work of Wei–Jin Xuanxue (Learning of the Mysterious) and became the standard commentary on the Daodejing for later gen…
The Wanshou Daoist Canon of the Zhenghe Era is the first block-printed Daoist Canon in Chinese history, a work of epoch-making significance. Emperor Huizong of Song, who …
Weng Baoguang's Commentary on the Wuzhen pian is one of the earliest and most influential commentaries on Awakening to Reality; in the Yuan dynasty Dai Qizong wrote a sub…
The Wenzi is a work of the Daoist Huang-Lao school, expounding the principles of the Dao and De, non-action, and self-cultivation and statecraft in the format of sayings …
The Duren jing, in full the Wondrous Scripture of the Upper Chapters on Limitless Salvation of Primordial Beginning, is the first scripture of the Lingbao lineage, and th…
The Xiang'er Commentary on the Laozi is the early Way of the Celestial Masters' (Wudoumi Dao) religious commentary on the Daodejing, and the key document through which Da…
The Yinfu jing (Scripture of the Hidden Talisman) runs to only a little over 300 characters, and together with the Daodejing and the Qingjing jing is one of the most impo…
The Zhonghua Daozang is the first systematic reorganization of Daoist scriptures undertaken in nearly five hundred years since the Ming, edited in chief by Zhang Jiyu of …
The Zhouyi Cantong Qi (Token for the Agreement of the Three According to the Book of Changes) was later honored as the king of alchemical scriptures for all ages, and is …
The Zhuangzi, together with the Daodejing, is one of the two great classics of Daoist philosophy. Its author, Zhuang Zhou, was a native of Meng in the state of Song and o…