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
893 books
Myth and meaning in early taoism
Norman J. Girardot
1983
Taoism
Russell Kirkland
2004
Taoism and the arts of China
Stephen Little, Shawn Eichman, Patricia Buckley Ebrey
2000
The annotated Laozi
Laozi, Paul Fischer
2023Chinese
The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion
Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner, Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber
1989
Women in daoism
Catherine Despeux, Livia Kohn
2003
Awakening Shakti
Sally Kempton
2013
Modern tantra
Donald Michael Kraig
2015
Moving with Change
Rowena Pattee
1986
Osho
Osho Oshos
2007
Secret power of tantric breathing
Sivapriyananda Swami
1983
Tantra
Philip S. Rawson
1973
Tantrism
Benjamin Walker
1982
Bertolt Brecht im Spannungsfeld west-östlicher Gedanken
Anette Balser-Overlack
1990German
Der Weg als Daheim
Yuhan Gao
2026German
Die Berge hüten das Geheimnis
Bill Porter
1994German
Immortelles de la Chine ancienne
Catherine Despeux
1990French
L'esprit du Tao
Jean Grenier
1957French
La Chambre jaune
Gérard Edde
1984French
Le Corps taoïste
Kristofer Schipper
1982French
Onna no taoisumu
Catherine Despeux, 門田, 真知子
1996Japanese
Sou nü jing
Kwok Po Leung, Maurice Mussat
2003French
Vivere il taoismo
Leonardo Vittorio Arena
1996Italian
Chou i pen i
Xi Zhu
1976Chinese