Introduction When people first ask how Taoism began, they often expect a simple answer — a founder, a date, and perhaps a single moment when the religion came into existence. The traditional story is much more subtle. It begins with an elderly scholar, an aging court official, a journey toward the western frontier, and a […]
Introduction When people first ask how Taoism began, they often expect a simple answer — a single founder, a founding date, one clear moment of creation. What they usually find instead is something more layered: a tradition that took shape gradually, over more than a thousand years, through the fusion of several distinct streams of […]
