On November 5, the First International Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture was held in Beijing, attracting 600 professionals, scholars, Daoists and followers of Daoism. The two-day summit, with the ...

Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim are the only religious identities that are each claimed by at least 5% of Asian American adults. Fewer than 1% of Asian Americans say that their present religion ...

In China, amid a backlash against the increasing wealth and rampant consumerism of the past several decades, people are turning to religion to find deeper meaning. Daoism takes in elements of ...

In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Ling, the first Celestial Master. Facing an impending ...

Since its inception more than two thousand years ago in the Eastern Han dynasty, Daoism (also known as Taoism) has permeated every aspect of Chinese life and culture, from politics, philosophy, ...

How are we, as humans, meant to live together? Every culture has asked this question, and countless philosophers and politicians have offered their answers. From Plato’s Republic to Thomas More’s ...

In late August, Chinese American author Ken Liu broke from his typical focus on speculative fiction to release a new book that combined non-fiction with translation. “Laozi’s Dao De Jing: A New ...

The Bible's Old Testament tells us that man has dominion over the rest of creation, and the 8th Psalm, echoing a similar attitude, states that the Lord made man "a little lower than the angels," and, ...

This video introduces Daoism, one of China’s oldest philosophical and spiritual traditions. Viewers learn about core ideas like living in harmony with the Dao (or “the Way”), the balance of yin and ...

鬼門大開! The Gates of Hell were flung wide open across East and Southeast Asia last week, at the start of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. In this Ghost Month 鬼月 (Cantonese gwái yuht), spirits ...