It was a drizzly day in early April when I caught a high-speed train from Shanghai to the nearby city of Suzhou to participate in the sixth “Seven-Day Ritual of Ascension” for Kristofer Schipper, the ...

With their long hair in buns and wearing white cotton robes, the Taoist disciples wander in at a gentle yet fast pace, and speaking in slow and soft tones. They begin doing taijiquan, a Chinese ...

American Raphael Robert Zanders-McNeil practices Wudang jianfa at the Wudang Taoist Kungfu Academy on Mount Wudang, Hubei province. Photos by Zhu Linyong / China Daily Hubei province's Mount Wudang is ...

Find a bookstore with an “Eastern Spirituality” shelf, and there will be a copy of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching on it. That 80-page, maddeningly obscure book is Taoism to most people. To the scholar of ...

I was told that Taoists were mainly vegetarian, with a strict disciplined routine through the day, much like their Buddhist counterparts, that Taoism, a set of ideals, needed to be part of society for ...

Four foreign Taoists sit for meditation in Xiaoyao Valley on Mount Wudang. Hubei province's Mount Wudang is a Mecca for Taoists and martial arts pilgrims keen to learn the way of the fist and tai chi, ...