Taoism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Chinese classics=== [[File:Anonymous - Zhenwu with the Eight Trigrams, the Northern Dipper, and Talismans - 1999.566 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg|thumb|Daoist deity [[Xuanwu (god)|Zhenwu]] with the Eight Trigrams ([[bagua]]) from the ''Yijing'' and the Northern Dipper, surrounded by Taoist talismans.]] Taoism draws on numerous [[Chinese classics]] that are not themselves "Taoist" texts but that remain important sources for Taoists. Perhaps the most important of these is the ancient divination text called the ''[[I Ching|Yijing]]'' (circa 1150 BCE).<ref>Pittman, Allen. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HG-fUg2TqRQC&pg=PA21 ''Walking the I Ching''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018093755/https://books.google.com/books?id=HG-fUg2TqRQC&pg=PA21 |date=18 October 2015 }}. Blue Snake Books, 2008. p. 21</ref> The divination method in the ''Yijing'' and its associated concepts of yin and yang mapped into 64 "[[Hexagram (I Ching)|hexagrams]]"—combinations of the [[Bagua|8 trigrams]]—has influenced Taoism from its inception until today.<ref>Wing, R. L. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw-KtYRQHhoC&pg=PA15 ''The I Ching Workbook''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017045900/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw-KtYRQHhoC&pg=PA15 |date=17 October 2015 }} Doubleday, 1979. pp. 15, 20.</ref><ref name="ClearyTIC">e.g. Cleary, Thomas, tr. [https://books.google.com/books?id=w9NFEyUKfQkC&pg=PT17 ''The Taoist I Ching''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101080655/https://books.google.com/books?id=w9NFEyUKfQkC&pg=PT17 |date=1 November 2015 }}. Shambhala, 1986. p. 6.</ref> Taoism also drew on other non-Taoist Chinese classic texts including:{{sfnp|Kirkland|2004|p=2-10}}{{sfnp|Kohn|2008|p=23–33}}<ref name="Robinet 1997, p. 62"/> * The ''[[Mozi]]'', which was later adopted as a Taoist text by Taoists (who also saw master Mo – Mozi – as a Taoist immortal and included the ''Mozi'' into the Taoist canon).{{sfnp|Kirkland|2004|p=26}} * The ''[[Han Feizi]]'' (''Writings of Master [[Han Fei]]''), a Legalist work that also contains key Taoist themes, such as wu-wei. * ([[Confucianism|Confucian]]) classics like the ''[[Analects]]'' and the ''[[Mencius (book)|Mengzi]]''. * ''[[Lüshi Chunqiu]]'', which is widely quoted in early Taoist sources. * ''[[Huangdi Neijing]]'' ''(The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor),'' an ancient Chinense medical text that was influential on Taoist inner cultivation theory. * ''[[Huainanzi]]'' ({{circa|139 BCE}}), an ancient source that includes [[Taoist]], [[Confucianist]], and [[Legalism (Chinese philosophy)|Legalist]] ideas. * ''[[Guanzi (text)|Guanzi]]'', which discusses Taoist ideas in several chapters. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page