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Liber XXX · Taoism & Chinese Religion

Liber XXX

Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi, Confucius, and the gods and spirits of China.

Chinese religion weaves together Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and a far older popular religion of ancestors, gods and spirits. This section covers the philosophical classics of the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi, the religious Taoism of the Celestial Masters and the Taoist canon, the pursuit of immortality through inner and outer alchemy, Confucius and the Confucian classics, yin and yang and the five phases, ancestor veneration, the gods of the Chinese pantheon, and divination with the I Ching and feng shui.

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The Analects of ConfuciusArthur Waley The Analects of ConfuciusArthur Waley An Anthropological Analysis of Chinese GeomancyStephan D. R. Feuchtwang An Anthropological Analysis of Chinese GeomancyStephan D. R. Feuchtwang Breathing SpacesNancy N. Chen Breathing SpacesNancy N. Chen Celestial MastersTerry F. Kleeman Celestial MastersTerry F. Kleeman Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127–1276Valerie Hansen Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127–1276Valerie Hansen Chinese Healing ExercisesLivia Kohn Chinese Healing ExercisesLivia Kohn Chinese Martial ArtsPeter A. Lorge Chinese Martial ArtsPeter A. Lorge Chinese MythologyAnne Birrell Chinese MythologyAnne Birrell Chuang TzŭHerbert A. Giles Chuang TzŭHerbert A. Giles Chuang-tzŭA. C. Graham Chuang-tzŭA. C. Graham The Complete Works of Chuang TzuBurton Watson The Complete Works of Chuang TzuBurton Watson Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial ChinaPatricia Buckley Ebrey Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial ChinaPatricia Buckley Ebrey ConfucianismDaniel K. Gardner ConfucianismDaniel K. Gardner ConfuciusHerbert Fingarette ConfuciusHerbert Fingarette The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese VillageEmily M. Ahern The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese VillageEmily M. Ahern Dao De JingRoger T. Ames and David L. Hall Dao De JingRoger T. Ames and David L. Hall Daoism and Chinese CultureLivia Kohn Daoism and Chinese CultureLivia Kohn Daoism HandbookLivia Kohn (ed.) Daoism HandbookLivia Kohn (ed.) Disputers of the TaoA. C. Graham Disputers of the TaoA. C. Graham Early Daoist ScripturesStephen R. Bokenkamp Early Daoist ScripturesStephen R. Bokenkamp Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the ZhuangziPaul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.) Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the ZhuangziPaul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.) Feng-ShuiErnest J. Eitel Feng-ShuiErnest J. Eitel Fengshui in ChinaOle Bruun Fengshui in ChinaOle Bruun The Five "Confucian" ClassicsMichael Nylan The Five "Confucian" ClassicsMichael Nylan