Taoism (sometimes written as and actually pronounced as Daoism (dow-ism)) is the English name for: Dao Jia [philosophical tao] philosophical school based on the texts the Tao Te Ching (ascribed to Laozi [Lao Tzu] and alternately spelled Dào Dé Jīng) and the Zhuangzi; a family of organized... Image File history File links Yin_yang. ...

Fundamentals
Tao · De · Xiulian Taijitu This article is about the Chinese character. ...

Prominent Taoists
Laozi · Zhuangzi
Zhang Daoling · Zhang Jiao
Ge Hong · Chen Tuan
Wang Chongyang Classical Chen Po (Chen Tuan, Chen Hsi I) Huai-nan Tzu Ho Yen Kuo Hsiang Lao Zi Lie Zi Sun Buer Sun Tzu Wang Chongyang Wang Pi Yang Hsiung Zhang Daoling Zhang Sanfeng Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu) Modern Abbot Wang Alan Watts Bruce Lee Ursula K. Le Guin Benjamin... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Zhuāngzǐ (pinyin), Chuang Tzu (Wade-Giles), Chuang Tsu, Zhuang Tze, or Chuang Tse (Traditional Chinese characters: 莊子; Simplified Chinese characters: 庄子, literally meaning Master Zhuang) was a famous philosopher in ancient China who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Hundred Schools of Thought... Celestial Master Zhang Daoling Zhang Daoling (Chang Tao-ling), aka Zhang Ling. ... Zhang Jiao or Zhang Jue(?-184) (Simplified Chinese: 张角; Traditional Chinese: 張角; Pinyin: Zhāng Jiǎo or Zhāng Jué) was the leader of the Yellow Turbans during the period of the late Eastern Han Dynasty in China. ... Ge Hong(葛洪) (284-364, also known as Zhichuan) was a minor southern official during the Jin dynasty (263-420), best known for his interest in Daoism, alchemy, and techniques of longevity. ... Wang Chongyang (11 January 1113 – 22 January 1170) [Chinese calendar: 宋徽宗政和二年十二月廿二 – 金世宗大定十年正月初四] (Traditional Chinese: 王重陽; Simplified Chinese: 王重阳; pinyin: Wáng Chóngyáng) was a Song Dynasty Taoist who was one of the founders of Quanzhen Taoism in the twelfth century. ...

Deities and Immortals
Three Pure Ones
Jade Emperor · Xi Wangmu
Eight Immortals The Three Pure Ones The Three Pure Ones (Chinese: 三清; pinyin: Sān QÄ«ng; Wade-Giles: San-ching) are three Taoist deities. ... Jade Emperor The Jade Emperor (玉皇 Pinyin: Yù Huáng or 玉帝 Yù Dì), known informally by children and commoners as Heavenly Grandfather (天公 Tiān Gōng) and known formally as the Pure August Jade Emperor or August Personage of Jade (玉皇上帝 Yu Huang Shangdi or 玉皇大帝 Yu Huang Dadi), is the ruler of... Xi Wangmu (西王母), in Chinese mythology, literally Queen Mother of the West, is the ruler of the western paradise and goddess of immortality. ... The Eight Immortals crossing the sea, from Myths and Legends of China, 1922 by E. T. C. Werner. ...

Main Sects
Quanzhen School
Tianshi School
Shangqing School
Lingbao School
the Quanzhen School is an important school in Chinese Taoism. ...

Taoist Texts
Tao Te Ching · Zhuangzi
Daozang The Tao Te Ching (道德經, Pinyin: D Jīng, thus sometimes rendered in recent works as Dao De Jing; archaic pre-Wade-Giles rendering: Tao Teh Ching; roughly translated as The Book of the Way and its Virtue (see dedicated chapter below on translating the title)) is... The Daozang (Daoist Cannon) consists of almost 5000 individual texts that were collected circa C.E. 400 (quite some time after the Dao De Jing and Zhuang Zi which are the core Daoist texts). ...

Dongtian Fudi
Shizhou Sandao
Shida Dongtian
Sanshiliu Xiaodongtian
Qishi'er Fudi

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