“...the massive database offers marvelous sources for one’s research.”-Shin-Yi Chao, University of Rochester, 237-240

• IntroductionVincent GoossaertTaoist Studies: Past and Present: A retrospective and perspective analysis of Taoist studies over a hundred yearsQing XitaiFrom Yiqie daojing to Zhonghua daozang—A Retrospective of the Study of the Taoist Textual HeritageWang KaThe Apocryphal Jia Section in Taipingjing Chao 太平经钞 [Excerpts from the Scripture of Great Peace]Wang MingLao-tzu, the Tao of Lao-tzu, and the Evolution of Taoism ---The Cultural Significance of the “Legend of Lao-tzu Converting the Barbarians 老子化胡说”Hong XiupingCao Cao and TaoismLi GangThe Taoist Concept of the “Six Heavens”Wang ZongyuCheng Xuanying and the study of the Twofold MysteryTang YijieFrom the Fundamentals of Philosophical Taoism to the Inner Alchemy of Religious TaoismZhang Guangbao“Follow and Oppose 顺逆” in Taoist Inner Alchemy and Its Contemporary InterpretationGe GuolongQuanzhen School and the Culture of Qilu RegionMou ZhongjianThe Revival of the Longmen Branch of the Quanzhen School in the Qing DynastyChen BingThe Impact of the Taoist Morality Book Taiwei xianjun gongguoge 太微仙君功过格 [Register of Merits and Demerits of the Divine Lord of Great Tenuity]Chen XiaAbnegating Killing and Cherishing LifeLi YuanguoTaoist Philosophy on Environmental ProtectionYin ZhihuaStudy of the Medical Elements in Taoist Treatment: The Use of Talismans and IncantationsGai JianminA Comparative Study of the Ritual of the Three Great Purities, the Taiyi Ritual of Sublimation, and the Doumu Ritual of Sublimation --Similarities and Differences between the Taoist Rituals of the Cantonese Region and of the Jiangnan RegionChen YaotingThe Theatrical Character of Taoist RitualsLiu Zhongyu

“...the massive database offers marvelous sources for one’s research.”-Shin-Yi Chao, University of Rochester, 237-240

• IntroductionVincent GoossaertTaoist Studies: Past and Present: A retrospective and perspective analysis of Taoist studies over a hundred yearsQing XitaiFrom Yiqie daojing to Zhonghua daozang—A Retrospective of the Study of the Taoist Textual HeritageWang KaThe Apocryphal Jia Section in Taipingjing Chao 太平经钞 [Excerpts from the Scripture of Great Peace]Wang MingLao-tzu, the Tao of Lao-tzu, and the Evolution of Taoism ---The Cultural Significance of the “Legend of Lao-tzu Converting the Barbarians 老子化胡说”Hong XiupingCao Cao and TaoismLi GangThe Taoist Concept of the “Six Heavens”Wang ZongyuCheng Xuanying and the study of the Twofold MysteryTang YijieFrom the Fundamentals of Philosophical Taoism to the Inner Alchemy of Religious TaoismZhang Guangbao“Follow and Oppose 顺逆” in Taoist Inner Alchemy and Its Contemporary InterpretationGe GuolongQuanzhen School and the Culture of Qilu RegionMou ZhongjianThe Revival of the Longmen Branch of the Quanzhen School in the Qing DynastyChen BingThe Impact of the Taoist Morality Book Taiwei xianjun gongguoge 太微仙君功过格 [Register of Merits and Demerits of the Divine Lord of Great Tenuity]Chen XiaAbnegating Killing and Cherishing LifeLi YuanguoTaoist Philosophy on Environmental ProtectionYin ZhihuaStudy of the Medical Elements in Taoist Treatment: The Use of Talismans and IncantationsGai JianminA Comparative Study of the Ritual of the Three Great Purities, the Taiyi Ritual of Sublimation, and the Doumu Ritual of Sublimation --Similarities and Differences between the Taoist Rituals of the Cantonese Region and of the Jiangnan RegionChen YaotingThe Theatrical Character of Taoist RitualsLiu Zhongyu

“...the massive database offers marvelous sources for one’s research.”-Shin-Yi Chao, University of Rochester, 237-240

• IntroductionVincent GoossaertTaoist Studies: Past and Present: A retrospective and perspective analysis of Taoist studies over a hundred yearsQing XitaiFrom Yiqie daojing to Zhonghua daozang—A Retrospective of the Study of the Taoist Textual HeritageWang KaThe Apocryphal Jia Section in Taipingjing Chao 太平经钞 [Excerpts from the Scripture of Great Peace]Wang MingLao-tzu, the Tao of Lao-tzu, and the Evolution of Taoism ---The Cultural Significance of the “Legend of Lao-tzu Converting the Barbarians 老子化胡说”Hong XiupingCao Cao and TaoismLi GangThe Taoist Concept of the “Six Heavens”Wang ZongyuCheng Xuanying and the study of the Twofold MysteryTang YijieFrom the Fundamentals of Philosophical Taoism to the Inner Alchemy of Religious TaoismZhang Guangbao“Follow and Oppose 顺逆” in Taoist Inner Alchemy and Its Contemporary InterpretationGe GuolongQuanzhen School and the Culture of Qilu RegionMou ZhongjianThe Revival of the Longmen Branch of the Quanzhen School in the Qing DynastyChen BingThe Impact of the Taoist Morality Book Taiwei xianjun gongguoge 太微仙君功过格 [Register of Merits and Demerits of the Divine Lord of Great Tenuity]Chen XiaAbnegating Killing and Cherishing LifeLi YuanguoTaoist Philosophy on Environmental ProtectionYin ZhihuaStudy of the Medical Elements in Taoist Treatment: The Use of Talismans and IncantationsGai JianminA Comparative Study of the Ritual of the Three Great Purities, the Taiyi Ritual of Sublimation, and the Doumu Ritual of Sublimation --Similarities and Differences between the Taoist Rituals of the Cantonese Region and of the Jiangnan RegionChen YaotingThe Theatrical Character of Taoist RitualsLiu Zhongyu