Tradition 23 of 33
Asian esoteric and internal traditions
Tantra, Daoist internal alchemy, the I Ching as divination, and esoteric Buddhist or yogic practice.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 762
- Earliest
- 1689
- to 2026
- Read free
- 7%
- 53 with public full text
- With covers
- 27%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match716
- Metadata match42
- Query match4
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
Top languages
- English286 · 38%
- Chinese139 · 18%
- German66 · 9%
- Japanese52 · 7%
- French43 · 6%
Notable authors
All authors- Laozi25 books
- Richard Wilhelm10 in this tradition12 books
- Mantak Chia8 books
- Carl Gustav Jung7 in this tradition32 books
- Bhagwan Rajneesh7 in this tradition12 books
- Benjamin Hoff6 books
- Livia Kohn5 in this tradition6 books
- Catherine Despeux5 books
- Isabelle Robinet5 books
- Alan Watts4 in this tradition8 books
- Nīlakaṇṭha4 in this tradition8 books
- Zhuangzi4 in this tradition5 books
762 books
Tantra, mantra, yantra
Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao
1979
Tao med Ole Brumm
Benjamin Hoff
1988
Taoistický čchi-kung pro zdraví a vitalitu
Sat Chuen Hon
2007Czech
Te med Nasse Nøff
Benjamin Hoff, Ernest H Shepard
1993
The Penguin book of new age and holistic writing
William Bloom
2001
The Shambhala dictionary of Taoism
Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber
1996
The real essence of tantra
Dadubhai N. Patel
1978
We need another voice
Lee Mosol
2023
Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism
Yael Bentor, Meir Shahar
2017
Der Weg entsteht beim Gehen
Michael Wittschier
2025German
Dao in China und im Westen
Josef Thesing, Thomas Awe
1999German
Finding the way to 'Long Day's Journey into Night'
William D. King
2024
The paradox of being
Poul Andersen
2019
Ancestors, kings, and the Dao
Constance A. Cook
2017
Bókin um veginn
Laozi, Jakob Jóh. Smári, Yngvi Jóhannesson, Halldór Laxness
1921Chinese
The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra
Buddhaguhya, Stephen. Hodge
2003
The sexual teachings of the white tigress
Hsi Lai, Center for Sex and Culture
2001
The inner kalacakratantra
Vesna A. Wallace
2001
Galdraskjóða Gurríar
Guðríður Haraldsdóttir
2014Icelandic
Imperiled destinies
Franciscus Verellen
2019
Daoism
James Robson
2015
The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart
2008
Religious encounters along the silk road
Huaiyu Chen
2026
Freedom's frailty
Christine Abigail L. Tan, Brook Ziporyn
2024Chinese