A special symposium was held Tuesday in Beijing to celebrate the successful compilation and publishing of a brand new Taoist Scripture which has taken over 100 Taoist scholars, experts and some ...

The Useless Tree blogger posts a pacifist poem from the ancient Taoist scripture Tao Te Ching and dedicates it to Iranian and American presidents Ahmadinejad and Bush.

Wudang Mountains, located in the southeast of Shiyan city, Hubei province, is known as the cradle of Taoist culture, and was named one of the Top 10 Summer Resorts in China.

The ritual ran from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. A dozen or so priests sang verses of Taoist scripture to accumulate merit for Professor Schipper. They invited his soul to come to the ritual and receive their ...

The daily routine included a morning Taoist scripture chanting session at 5:30 am in the temple, morning and afternoon training sessions in Wudang tai chi, and Taoist lectures in the early evening.

Although wildly popular and drawn from Taoist beliefs, neither novel is a Taoist text, and both authors took significant liberties with the established canon — including promoting Ne Zha to a more ...

Taoist rituals involve purification, meditation and offerings to deities. The details of Taoist rituals are often highly complex and technical and therefore left to the priests, with the ...

The dream of AI — artificial intelligence — has been around for centuries: the idea of an intelligent machine without free will popped up in ancient Taoist scrolls, Buddhist fables, and the ...