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[Yun]

Found this today:

http://www.mythopedi...fo/22-china.htm

[General_Zhaoyun]

Below contains links to informative websites on chinese philosophy and religion


>> Netor's Knowledge site on chinese religion and philosophy
Info: A chinese site containing good information on major religions (buddhism, taoism, christianity, islam) in China as well as chinese philosophy
Link: http://cn.netor.com/know.htm

>> Confucius's Analects
Info: Contains the chinese confucian classic "Analects of Confucius" in both chinese and english translation
Link: http://www.confucius...lunyu/lange.htm

>>Major Confucian Classics
Info: major list of confucian classics
Link: http://www.confucius.org/maine.htm

>>Mencius
Info: The confucian classics "Mencius" in english
Link: http://nothingistic....encius/toc.html

>>Dadejing - Book on Dao
Info: The daoist philosophy classic - daodejing in both chinese and english
Link: http://www.ee.cityu....hk/~lmpo/laozi/ or
http://www.hku.hk/ph...WEthics/ttc.htm

>>Guoxue's 100 School of Thoughts
Info: A chinese site containing major classics of thoughts
Link: http://www.guoxue.com/gxrm/index.htm

>>21世纪孔子 (21st Century Confucius)
Info: A chinese site containing various academic articles and resources about Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism written by various scholars. Include a search engine to search for topics.
Link: http://confucius2000.com

>>中国儒学网 (China Confucianism Net)
Info: A chinese site containing various academic articles on Confucianism organized according to different subject. Author of the site is Huang Yushun, who come from Chengdu. He graduated with a PhD in chinese philosophy and is now a Professor in the Department of Philosophy in Sichuan University.
Link: http://www.confuchina.com

>>中国儒网 (China Confucian Network)
Info: A very informative chinese site containing much resources and articles on Confucianism. Includes a forum for academic confucianism discussion.
Link: http://www.chinaconfucius.org

>>太极易 (Taichi Yi)
Info: One of the largest and best chinese site for academic information and resources about I-Ching 易经 (Book of Change). It also has a forum for academic discussion about I-Ching.
Link: http://www.taichie.com/

>>DaoIsOpen
Info: An english site containing information and resources about Daoism, Laozi's Daodejing. Also includes a forum for discussion about Daodejing.
Link: http://www.daoisopen.com

[General_Zhaoyun]

Found a good site on daoist pantheon system.

>>Daoist Deities (Pantheon)
Info: Complete list of deities in daoist religion
Link: http://www.shaolinku...o/xiantian.html

[oliverarodriguez]

Thank you very much, very interesting sites.

[General_Zhaoyun]

A chinese site on the history of buddhism in China and its major sects

http://www.ligaoping...fjzongpai01.htm

[senze]

Found a good site on daoist pantheon god, daoist talismans, daoist occult

>>Daoist Deities (Pantheon)
Info: A list of deities in daoist religion. Talismanic magic
Link: http://www.taoistsecret.com

Edited by senze, 26 August 2006 - 01:46 PM.

[General_Zhaoyun]

Comprehensive Links to Chinese Classics:

>>Chinese Text Projects
Info: Contains the text of almost all major philosophical classical text
Link: http://chinese.dstur....net/index.html

For additional chinese philosophy classics, you can refer to the following:

Confucian Classics

>>I-Ching 《易经》(classics of change)
Text in chinese: http://www.cnd.org/C...ophers/I_Ching/
Sites in english: http://pacificcoast.net/~wh/Index.html

>>Daxue 《大学》(Great Learning)
Chinese Text: http://www.cnd.org/C...sophers/Da_Xue/
English translation: http://www.chinapage...ue/daxue-e.html

>>Zhong Yong 《中庸》(Doctrine of the Mean)
Chinese Text: http://www.cnd.org/C...ers/Zhong_Yong/
English translation: http://www.chinapage...gyong/mean.html

>>Xiao Jing《孝经》(Classics of Filial Piety)
Chinese Text: http://www.cnd.org/C...hers/Xiao_Jing/
English Translation: http://www.chinapage...iaojing-be.html


Daoism Classics

>>Zhuang Zi《庄子》(Chuang Tsu)
Chinese Text: http://www.cnd.org/C...hers/Zhuang_Zi/
English Translation: http://web.archive.o...132/chuang-tzu/
http://nothingistic....angtzu/toc.html



Xunzi Classics

>> Quan Xue Pian《劝学篇》(Exhortation to learning)
Chinese Text (version 1): http://www.cnd.org/C...arning.hz8.html
Chinese Text (version 2):
http://www.cnd.org/C...ning_2.hz8.html
English Translation:

[somechineseperson]

Chinese Daoist Website and Forum: (in both Chinese and English)

Website:

http://www.gb.taoism.org.hk/ (Simplified Chinese)

http://www.taoism.org.hk/default.htm (Traditional Chinese)

http://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/ (English)

Forum:

http://gb.taoistforum.org/ (Simplified Chinese)

http://taoistforum.org/ (Traditional Chinese)

http://eng.taoistforum.org/ (English)

Edited by somechineseperson, 27 November 2006 - 12:02 PM.

[Bao Pu]

Thanks SCP
I see you are Neobserver on that forum.

Other English Daoist forums:

http://members.boardhost.com/Zentao00/
(My favourite)
http://groups.google...ilosophy.taoism
http://www.beliefnet...asp?boardID=446
http://forum.daoisopen.com/
http://members.board...m/LaoistTemple/
http://www.taoism.net/teahouse/

[somechineseperson]

Very good link to mythology & legends: A few broken links.

http://www2u.biglobe...AGI/China-e.htm

"China seems sometimes to used to be called "the Land without Mythology". But please try to think about there are few countries like Greece holding sophisticated and systemized Mythology, and the Greeks love their mythology to use for their literature and poetry, and drama without religious aim."

To say that China does not have mythology is simply a sign of ignorance. Chinese mythology is actually quite sophisticated and comprehensive too, it's just that it is very poorly known compared with Greek mythology.

[Borjigin Ayurbarwada]

Chinese theology only really developed after the Tang dynasty, one thing interesting is that theology is actually a good reflection of the society itself.
Chinese theology tends to be highly systematic, with a sophisticated bureucracy; more organized hierarchical relationship than the Greek version, typical of Chinese administration.
In Greek theology, individual gods reign over elements of the world, they all have a degree of freedom from the supreme God Zeus, yet in Chinese theology, all gods are under the supervision of the Jade emperor, and instead of individual gods that reign over elements of the world, there were divine ministries that run the world; such as ministry of thunder(36 gods), under the supreme Tian Zun, ministry of fire, etc.

[somechineseperson]

Chinese theology only really developed after the Tang dynasty, one thing interesting is that theology is actually a good reflection of the society itself.
Chinese theology tends to be highly systematic, with a sophisticated bureucracy; more organized hierarchical relationship than the Greek version, typical of Chinese administration.
In Greek theology, individual gods reign over elements of the world, they all have a degree of freedom from the supreme God Zeus, yet in Chinese theology, all gods are under the supervision of the Jade emperor, and instead of individual gods that reign over elements of the world, there were divine ministries that run the world; such as ministry of thunder(36 gods), under the supreme Tian Zun, ministry of fire, etc.

The Chinese gods also tend to be much more moral, compared with the Greek gods, which can often be more immoral than even the humans.

I disagree that Chinese theology only developed after the Tang Dynasty. It is true that the Orthodox Daoist theology of the Three Highest Pure/Pristine Ones (San Qing - Yuanshi Tianzun/Lingbao Tianzun/Daode Tianzun) was only first formalised during the Tang Dynasty. But official and systematic Confucian and Daoist theology exist much earlier on. During the Han Dynasty the Supreme God was called Shangdi Taiyishen, and even as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, a theology based on the Supreme God of Heaven and numerous natural and ancestral spirits acting as His ministers was already systematically established.

[Pattie]

http://www.pantheon....e/articles.html

[alphone]

Taoist Scriptures - Chinese-English cross reference:
http://home.comcast....rce/doe_idx.htm

Buddhist Scriptures in Multiple Languages:
http://www.fodian.net/world/

[ophelia]

I found this interesting Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms:
http://mahajana.net/...ml#body.1_div.1

Edited by ophelia, 22 April 2008 - 03:19 AM.