What draws some of the world’s top sci-fi authors to the “Dao De Jing”?

In many, if not most, landscape paintings, humans have a place. They are participants in the natural scene, but they do not dominate it. This exercise should be part of a larger lesson on Daoism in ...

A short introduction to Laozi and Daoism. This is part of a series that examines Chinese belief systems: how people think and behave, philosophically and relgiously. In understanding Chinese belief ...

In Daoism, the dragon is believed to be the messenger of heaven. Emperors cast gold dragon sculptures into the mountains, ...

By the fourth century, Celestial Master Daoism had spread to all parts of China, and has since played a key role in China’s religious and intellectual history. Celestial Masters is the first book in ...