Associação Daoista de Portugal葡萄牙道教协会

Type

Overseas Daoist Temples

Location

Portugal · Lisbon · Lisbon · No reliable public record gives the specific address of the association or its temple

First built

2010 · Founder Jose Barreno (Daoist name Huang Jingyun); the association maintains an attached temple

Overview

The Associação Daoista de Portugal was founded in Lisbon in 2010 by Jose Barreno (Daoist name Huang Jingyun), with an attached temple, and is the principal Daoist organization in Portuguese-speaking Europe. The association translates Daoist scriptures into Portuguese, teaches doctrine, and practices ritual, and takes part in joint activities of the European Daoist network. Portugal's historical connection to Daoism is distinctive: Macau, under Portuguese administration for over four centuries, was one of the earliest windows through which Europeans systematically encountered Chinese Daoism, and the accounts of Daoism by early missionaries were often transmitted back to Europe by way of Macau. This historical contact did not, however, directly give rise to a local Daoist community, and the organized establishment of Daoism in Portugal did not begin until the twenty-first century — placing it, together with the Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil (1991), within the network of Daoist practice in the Portuguese-speaking world. No independently reliable public source gives the specific address, coordinates, or corporate registration details of the association and its temple.

Highlights

• Principal Daoist organization in Portuguese-speaking Europe (2010)
• Maintains an attached temple
• Portuguese translation of Daoist scriptures
• Contrasts with the historical connection through Macau