This article touches on the subject of deities in Taoism. Westerners who study Taoism are sometimes surprised to discover that Taoists venerate gods, as there doesn't seem to be a place for deities in ...

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Waving a brush thinner than a pencil, Ng Yeow Hua stares closely and carefully begins to paint. Each stroke is slow and delicate. It pays ...

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 ...

In Singapore, a 92-year-old matriarch leads one of the city's last artisanal shops crafting Buddhist and Taoist deities. Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn ...

“How to give a Middle Finger, Song Dynasty Style” is an unusual name for a workshop, to say the least, so to find out more, I accept an invitation to step into a timeworn studio in Singapore’s Tanjong ...

The vigor of Wu Chengzhen's faith has made her an exception to nearly two millennia of Taoist clerical orthodoxy. Wu Chengzhen is the first principal abbess (Fang Zhang) of a Taoist temple in the ...

When Stephen Little, the Art Institute’s chief curator of Asian art, began planning the “Taoism and the Arts of China” exhibit that just opened, he had no idea what Taoism, let alone Taoist art, meant ...

"I would like to extend our warm welcome to the disciples of Xuandi from Taiwan, whom we haven't seen for a long time," said Li Guangfu, president of Chinese Taoist Association. From April 22 to 23, ...

On the eve of Spring Festival, Dang Daqing arranged a bouquet of plastic flowers in front of a glowing portrait showing Jesus with his arms outstretched. Dang, 53, is a typical farmer in a village ...

Westerners who study Taoism are sometimes surprised to discover that Taoists venerate gods, as there doesn't seem to be a place for deities in Taoist thinking. Taoism does not have a God in the way ...