Taoist canon

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The Taoist Canon (Chinese 道藏, pinyin Dào Zàng), is a voluminous collection of Taoist writings, containing well over a thousand texts. Its most well known members would be the Dao de jing and the Zhuang zi, but most are concerned with Taoist alchemy, divination, history or other, non-"philoshophical" types of Taoism.

There is not one Taoist Canon per se. Rather, there are a number of different canons, some of which have now been lost. Some were associated with a particular school, such as Lingbao or Shangqing; some were published under Imperial edict. Even those belonging to a particular school often include the texts of other schools also, and sometimes even popular texts from other Chinese religious traditions (Confucianism or Buddhism.)

[edit] External links

  • Daozang (Taoist Canon) - maintained by Fabrizio Pregadio at Stanford University
  • The Daoist Canon - maintained by Taoist Culture and Information Centre in Hong Kong.
  • The Taoist Canon - maintained by David K. Jordan at UCSD. See also his overview of the canons of all three major Chinese religions, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, here.


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