Taoism Virtual Library

Commercial Sites

• The following are linked for general information, without endorsement of any product or service.
  
  
• Abode of the Eternal Tao
  http://www.abodetao.com/
  [Worth a look for the large graphic on the main page.]
• Empower Station
  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/empowertools/iching.htm
  [Offering an I Ching Empower Tool, this is one of the many New Age Taoist divination sites that offer on-line readings and software.]
• I Ching
  http://www.iging.com/
  [I Ching computer software for IBM compatible computers.]
• Tao Resource
  http://www.taoresource.com/
  [A very well designed site offering for sale a wide range of items that include altar flags and meditation supplies. The site is useful as a basic information resource and for a contemporary perspective on the tradition, too.]
• Tao Web Site by Lance Muresan
  http://members.aa.net/~whippet/index.htm
  [A photographer's visual appreciation of the Tao Te Ching and an advertisement for an audio tape on which he reads a translated text of the Tao Te Ching.]
  
  Printed Books
• Asian Rare Books
  http://users.erols.com/arbs/
  [Scarce, rare, out of stock books on Taoism and Chinese religion. Proprietor Stephen Feldman travels, has worldwide connections, and is a source for publications on China that are otherwise difficult to find.]
• Original Books, Inc.
  http://morelight.net/originalbooks/
  [Two volumes of extracts from the Tao Tsang in English under the title The Primordial Breath are available from this publisher in Torrance, California. In the two volumes are sixteen treatises on embryonic breathing as translated by Jane Huang in collaboration with Michael Wurmbrand.]
• Julian Pas, Select Bibliography on Taoism
  [Nearly 200 pages in its second enlarged edition, this is a useful bibliography of Western language printed sources, studies, and reviews. It is available from Saskatoon China Pavilion, 1129 Elliott Street, Saskatoon, SK, S7N, 0V4, Canada or from Amazon.Com and other retailers. His Historical Dictionary of Taoism also should be considered an essential resource.]
• Knut Walf, WESTLICHE TAOISMUS-BIBLIOGRAPHIE (WTB) Western Bibliography of Taoism, Fourth improved and enlarged edition. Essen (Germany): Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1997. Pp.194 ISBN 3-89206-812-7 Price: 42.00 DM
  [This bibliography makes accessible both the older and the most recent publications on Taoism in Western languages and provides a comprehensive survey of the editions of the texts of the Taoist Classics in those languages. The bibliography lists about 1740 original works and 290 translations.
  CONTENT: Editions/Translations of the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu and other Taoist texts. Secondary Literature. Other bibliographies.
  THE AUTHOR: Knut Walf, born in 1936 in Berlin-Dahlem. Studies in Philosophy, Roman Catholic Theology, Law and Canon Law in Munich and Fribourg. Obtained his Ph.D. in 1965 and "Habilitation" in Canon Law in Munich (1971). He was a lecturer from 1972 till 1977 at the University of Munich, and in 1977 he was appointed Professor of Canon Law at the University of Nijmegen in The Nether- lands. From 1985 till 1997 he was also Professor in Canon Law at the Faculty of Theology in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Vis.prof.Univ.of Fribourg, Switzerland; Univ.of Saarbruecken, Germany; Catholic University.of America, Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous publications in Canon Law, on the changes in religious consciousness ("Stille Fluchten", 1983) and in Taoism (TAO fuer den Westen, 1989/1997/TAO voor het Westen, 1991; Westliche Taoismus-Bibliographie / Western Bibliography of Taoism, 1997 [fourth edition]).
  ORDER ADDRESS: Verlag Die Blaue Eule Annastrasse 74 D-45130 ESSEN Germany FAX XX-49-201-8776964 ]

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