Lu Sidao(卢思道): The Darkest Voice in Taoist Phil...
Lu Sidao served three dynasties, held high office, and was admired by his peers. Then he wrote, with the clarity of a man who has studied his own life and...
Lu Sidao(卢思道): The Darkest Voice in Taoist Phil...
Lu Sidao served three dynasties, held high office, and was admired by his peers. Then he wrote, with the clarity of a man who has studied his own life and...
Figures of Taoism: Wang Bao 王褒
Wang Bao (510–574), a renowned Northern Zhou writer, harmonized Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, favoring Daoist immortality practices. He valued each tradition’s role in moral and spiritual cultivation, blending philosophical depth...
Figures of Taoism: Wang Bao 王褒
Wang Bao (510–574), a renowned Northern Zhou writer, harmonized Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, favoring Daoist immortality practices. He valued each tradition’s role in moral and spiritual cultivation, blending philosophical depth...
Wang Ji(王绩): The Drunken Sage Who Wrote His Own...
Wang Ji quit his government post, built a cottage on a river islet, and spent the rest of his life drinking, playing the zither, and walking in the mountains. He...
Wang Ji(王绩): The Drunken Sage Who Wrote His Own...
Wang Ji quit his government post, built a cottage on a river islet, and spent the rest of his life drinking, playing the zither, and walking in the mountains. He...
Empress Xiao(萧皇后): The Empress Who Quoted Laozi
Empress Xiao watched her husband Emperor Yang of Sui destroy one of the greatest empires in the world. Her only surviving work—the Ode to Expressing My Aspirations—quotes Laozi chapter by...
Empress Xiao(萧皇后): The Empress Who Quoted Laozi
Empress Xiao watched her husband Emperor Yang of Sui destroy one of the greatest empires in the world. Her only surviving work—the Ode to Expressing My Aspirations—quotes Laozi chapter by...
Figures of Taoism: Xue Daoheng 薛道衡
Xue Daoheng (537–606), Sui scholar and poet, blended Confucianism with Daoism, deifying Laozi as a divine, eternal being. He exalted Daoist thought above Confucian classics, transforming it into a spiritual...
Figures of Taoism: Xue Daoheng 薛道衡
Xue Daoheng (537–606), Sui scholar and poet, blended Confucianism with Daoism, deifying Laozi as a divine, eternal being. He exalted Daoist thought above Confucian classics, transforming it into a spiritual...
Figures of Taoism: Yang Shangshan 杨上善
Yang Shangshan, Sui philosopher and physician, integrated Daoism with medicine. He proposed "one divides into two" as a cosmic principle, viewing reality as an undivided Dao manifesting through dynamic, cyclical...
Figures of Taoism: Yang Shangshan 杨上善
Yang Shangshan, Sui philosopher and physician, integrated Daoism with medicine. He proposed "one divides into two" as a cosmic principle, viewing reality as an undivided Dao manifesting through dynamic, cyclical...