Need good sites about Daoism/Taoism?

Question

Doing a small paper about Daoism (or otherwise known as Taoism), and need direction to some more (good) websites. I already have been to Wikipedia and Religious Tolerance.org, so *please* don't tell me to go there. If you do, I'll send my teething baby out to gnaw on your fingers. ;)

Teri, you're an idiot. I'm doing this paper for a college religious studies course that centered on Eastern religions. This isn't some random paper. Do *you*, since you know everything, know how I can pass the course without doing a paper that counts for 30% of my grade...?

No, didn't think so. And that 'threat' was a joke. Get a sense of humor, child!

Answer 1

Daoism stands alongside Confucianism as one of the two great religious/philosophical systems of China. Traditionally traced to the mythical Laozi "Old Philosopher,"
Philosophical Daoism owes more to "philosopher Zhuang" (Zhuangzi) (4th Century BC). Daoism is an umbrella that covers a range of similarly motivated doctrines. The term "Daoism" is also associated with assorted naturalistic or mystical religions. Sometimes the term "Lao-Zhuang Philosophy" is used to distinguish the philosophical from the more religious "Huang-Lao" (Yellow Emperor-Laozi) strain of Daoist thought.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/taoism/


Taoist Texts:Ethical, Political, and Speculative
Frederic Henry Balfour [Shanghai and London, 1884]
{Reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, Sept. 2003}

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/ttx/index.htm


Tao, The Great Luminant
Essays from the Huai Nan Tzu
by Evan S. Morgan
[Shanghai, 1933]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/tgl/index.htm

Have a pleasant day.

Answer 2

Taoism is the English name referring to a variety of related Chinese religious and philosophical traditions and concepts. These traditions influenced East Asia for over two thousand years and some have spread internationally. [1] Taoist propriety and ethics emphasize the Three Jewels of the Tao; namely, love, moderation, humility. Taoist thought focuses on wu wei ("non-action"), spontaneity, humanism, relativism and emptiness.


The Chinese character 道The character Tao 道 (or Dao, depending on the romanisation scheme) means "path" or "way", but in Chinese religion and philosophy it has taken on more abstract meanings. Tao is rarely an object of worship, being treated more like the Central Asian concepts of atman and dharma.[2] The word "Taoism" is used to translate different Chinese terms. Daojiao (道教 "teachings/religion of the Dao") refers to Daoism as a religion. Daojia (道家 "school of the Dao") refers to the studies of scholars, or "philosophical" Daoism. However, most scholars have abandoned the dichotomy of "religious" and "philosophical" Daoism.[3]

Most traditional Chinese Taoists are polytheistic. Nature and ancestor spirits are common in popular Taoism. Organized Taoism distinguishes its ritual activity from that of the folk religion, which some professional Taoists (Daoshi) view as debased. This sort of shamanism is eschewed for an emphasis on internal alchemy among the "elite" Taoists.

Chinese alchemy, astrology, cuisine, several Chinese martial arts, Chinese traditional medicine, fengshui, and many styles of qigong breath training disciplines are intertwined with Taoism throughout history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8059_1.html
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/taoism.html
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/taoism.html

Answer 3

You and everyone else around you would be much better of doing a paper or whatever! on insight about things that matter and that are of true value than to waste your valuable time on that! and no one responds kindly to threats of any kind! even though I never send people to sites! I only urge them to show some wise insight! by acquiring accurate knowledge about all things and in doing so, I decline to comment any further at this point! Peace!