Daoist Culture Centre Database, Fung Ying Seen Koon蓬瀛仙馆道教文化中心资料库

Type: Museums
Location: Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong · Fanling, North District, New Territories · Within Fung Ying Seen Koon, 66 Pak Wo Road, Fanling; website daoinfo.org
Coordinates: 22.4905, 114.1383 Map ↗
School: Daoist Temples and Altars of Hong Kong and Macau, Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen, Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism
First built: 1999 · Established by Fung Ying Seen Koon; the website daoinfo.org remains online today, providing the bilingual Chinese–English Daoist Encyclopedia.

Overview

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 Chinese-speaking world. Its website, daoinfo.org, provides a bilingual Chinese–English Daoist Encyclopedia, whose entries cover schools, figures, scriptures, deities, ritual, temples and terminology, written by scholars from across the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and abroad, combining scholarly rigor with public accessibility, and long serving as a standard reference tool for both Daoist researchers and the general public. The database also holds a bibliography of Daoist literature, a directory of temples, and an index of research papers. The parent institution, Fung Ying Seen Koon, was founded in 1929 at Fanling, belongs to the Quanzhen Longmen lineage, and was registered as a limited company in 1972; it has long invested in Daoist cultural undertakings, with affiliated bodies including the Hong Kong Taoist Orchestra, established in 1996, and the Tao TV channel, launched in 2004, as well as publishing the magazine Hung Tao. It should be noted that what is commonly called the "Hong Kong Daoist Culture Centre" refers to this database housed at Fung Ying Seen Koon, and is not a separate independent institution. See the separate entry for the parent temple, "Fung Ying Seen Koon."

Highlights

Bilingual Chinese–English Daoist Encyclopedia
The largest digital Daoist literature database in the Chinese-speaking world
The Hong Kong Taoist Orchestra and the Tao TV channel
The magazine Hung Tao

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