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
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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
- Read free

The Pancha tantra or Panchó Pákhyána, five Collections of Stories
1864NOT
- Read free
Čínský mudřec
1900Czech
Daoism in the twentieth century
David A. Palmer, Xun Liu
2012
Daoism, meditation, and the wonders of serenity
Stephen Eskildsen
2015
Speculative orientalism
Sang-Keun Yoo
2025
Merton & the Tao
Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes
2013
Mysticism and alchemy through the ages
Gary Edson
2012
Religion of the Han Empire
Sheng Jiang
2025

Beyond the superconscious mind
Avadhuʹtikaʹ, Aʹnandamitraʹ Aʹcaryaʹ
1982

Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Shintoism
Ashok Vohra
2024

China root
David Hinton
2020
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia
Charles D. Orzech, Richard Payne, Henrik H. Sørensen
2011
Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia
Andrea Acri
2016

From Taoism to Einstein
Olof G Lidin
2006

Hemmeligheten ved den slanke linje
Stephen T Chang
1987

I Ching
Christopher Markert
1988

Kjærlighetens tao
Jolan Chang
2000
Malá kniha Tao te ťing
Laozi
1996Chinese
Moudrost Východu
C. Scott Littleton
1998Czech
Moudrost Východu
Priya Hemenway
2007Czech
Náboženství Číny
Daniel L Overmyer, Radek Beneš
1998Czech
Pú a Tao
Benjamin Hoff
1996Czech

Religion
Trevor Barnes, Jeanette Sky
2008
Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala
Matthew Martin
2020