Taoism

If any subject lends itself to treatment in an edited volume, it is Chinese Religions; It is a recognized fact that the boundaries between the various religions in China, and those …

China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song …

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous …

Current debates about gender identity are fraught with contradictions. Even as we increasingly recognize gender as an assigned category or social convention, we still see it as …

I first give a poetic rendering of the chapter. This is followed by a word-for-word, line-by-line translation of the Chinese. Chinese characters can have many related synonym-like …

By the eleventh century, communities of religious practitioners in China had developed a theory and practice of meditative self-cultivation that combined the so-called Three …

Awakening to Reality (Wuzhen pian) is one of the most important and best-known Taoist alchemical texts. Written in the eleventh century, it describes in a poetical form, and in a …

媽祖信仰是臺灣最普遍的民間信仰之一，媽祖信仰分佈在臺灣各地，臺灣各地皆有媽祖廟，在臺灣盛行媽祖信徒徒步進香，如苗栗白沙屯媽祖徒步前往北港朝天宮進香、彰化南瑤宮徒步前往北港朝天宮進香，或是大甲鎮瀾宮徒步前往新港奉天宮進香等，每年媽祖信徒都是徒步前往中臺灣北港溪(舊名笨港溪)沿岸的北港朝天宮、新港奉天宮進香，除了前述徒步進香外，中臺灣笨港溪沿岸媽祖廟更是臺灣各地 …