Daoist Studies

PhD. Louis Komjathy (康思奇) is an American scholar-practitioner of Daoism and Contemplative Studies as well as Director, Chóngxuán (重玄) Chair, and…

Editorial NoteThis text is published as an original contribution by Șerban Toader in the Daoist Studies section of the Slovenian Daoist Temple. The…

Issue 81 of the scholarly journal Edinost in dialog includes a scholarly article by Vice-rector mag. Darija Mavrič Čeh (Vice-rector Yuan Weiheng 袁微恒)…

Wang Jiaohua (26 September 1901–7 January 1989) was born into a poor farming family on the outskirts of Zhengzhou, Henan. His father died when he was…

We often first think of Chinese as a language of complex characters. Yet Thousand-Character Classic shows that these characters are not merely signs…

In 1869, the 8th year of the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty, Tang Chongliang was born in the village of Santang in the Yingshang County of the…

Across the world’s spiritual and philosophical traditions, the human being is understood not only as a being who seeks answers to the question of how…

PhD. Șerban Toader (谢尔班) is a Romanian sinologist, researcher, and university lecturer. He received his doctorate in philology from the University of…

Among the more than 1,400 works preserved in the Daoist canon, the Daozang 道藏, no text has a history that reveals the interplay of religion, politics…

As we move through the history of European art, the human figure is always with us. The Greek Aphrodite and Apollo, the Renaissance Venus…

Buddhism is one of the major religious and philosophical traditions in human history, and its development is closely connected with processes of…

In recent decades, psychological flexibility has become one of the central constructs of contemporary psychology. Particularly within Acceptance and…