Title: Chinese theology
Content:  and lay liturgical traditions, the most practised at the popular level being those for healing and exorcism, codified into a textual corpus commissioned and approved by emperors throughout the dynasties, the Taoist Canon. The core of Taoist theology is the concept of Dào 道, the "Way", which is both the order of nature and the source of it. Differently from common religion or even Confucianism, Taoism espouses a negative theology declaring the impossibility to define the Dao. The core text of Taoism, the Daodejing, opens with the verses: «The Dao that can be said is not the eternal Dao, the name that can be said is not the eternal 
Title: List of religious texts
Content: Daozang, meaning "Taoist Canon", consists of around 1,400 texts that were collected to bring together all of the teachings of Taoism. ; Tao Te Ching ; Zhuangzi (book) ; Liezi ; Qingjing Jing ; Taiping Jing ; Sanhuangjing ; Huangdi Yinfujing ; Xishengjing ; Huahujing ; Baopuzi ; List of Lingbao texts ; Xiang'er ; Zuowanglun ; Yunji Qiqian ; Wuzhen pian 
Title: Religion in China
Content:  Taoism (道教 Dàojiào) (also romanised as Daoism in the current pinyin spelling) encompasses a variety of related orders of philosophy and rite in Chinese religion. They share elements that go back to the 4th century BCE and to the prehistoric culture of China, such as the School of Yin and Yang and the thought of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Taoism has a distinct scriptural tradition, with the Dàodéjīng (道德经 "Book of the Way and its Virtue") of Laozi being regarded as its keystone. Taoism may be described, as does the scholar and Taoist initiate Kristofer Schipper in The Taoist Body (1986), as a doctrinal and 
Title: Daozang
Content:  Daozang (Wade-Giles: Tao Tsang), meaning "Taoist Canon", consists of around 1,400 texts that were collected c. 400 CE (after the Daodejing and Zhuangzi and Liezi which are the core Taoist texts). They were collected by Taoist monks of the period in an attempt to bring together all of the teachings of Taoism, including all the commentaries and expositions of the various masters from the original teachings found in the Daodejing and Zhuangzi. These three divisions were based on the main focus of Taoism in Southern China during the time it was made, namely; meditation, ritual, and exorcism. These Three Grottoes were used as levels for the initiation of 
Title: Livia Kohn
Content: Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0691073811 ; The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York Press, New York, 1993, ISBN 978-0791415801 ; Daoism Handbook. Brill Verlag, Leiden, Boston, Cologne, 2000, ISBN 90-04-11208-1 ; Daoist Identity: History, Lineage and Ritual. University of Hawai'i Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0824825041 ; Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. University of Hawai'i Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0824826512 ; Daoism and Chinese Culture. University of Hawai'i Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1931483001 ; Daoist Body Cultivation: Traditional Models and Contemporary Practices. Three Pines Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1931483056 ; Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin. University of Hawai'i Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0824832698 ; Seven stages of Taoist meditation: the Zuòwànglùn. Medical-Literary Publishing Company, Uelzen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88136-248-1 
Title: Taoist philosophy
Content:  yīn-yáng, biànhuà ("transformation") and fǎn ("reversal"), and personal cultivation through meditation and other spiritual practices. While scholars have sometimes attempted to separate "Taoist philosophy" from "Taoist religion", there was never really such a separation. Taoist texts and the literati and Taoist priests that wrote and commented on them never made the distinction between "religious" and "philosophical" ideas, particularly those related to metaphysics and ethics. The principle texts of this philosophical tradition are traditionally seen as the Daodejing, and the Zhuangzi, though it was only during the Han Dynasty that they were grouped together under the label "Taoist" (Daojia). The I Ching was also later linked to this tradition by scholars such as Wang Bi. Additionally, around 1,400 distinct texts have been collected together as part of the Taoist canon (Dàozàng).
Title: Xiaodao Lun
Content:  The Xiaodan Lun is written in 36 sections in an imitation of the Daoist canon, and aimed to show that the mythology, rituals, and practices of Daoism were inconsistent and absurd. Zhen's text criticizes not those scripture which were most important to contemporary Daoist practice, but those which were easiest to ridicule, such as "The Size of the Sun and the Moon". In addition, the treatise references Daoist texts from the Lingbao and Tianshi schools of Daoism disproportionately to those from the Shangqing school. The polemic accuses Daoists of "stealing" (qiè 窃) the Buddhist Lotus Sutra for use in Daoist 
Title: Wei Huacun
Content:  from them 31 volumes of Daoist scriptures which would become the foundation of Shangqing Daoism. Among these was the Yellow Court Classic (黃庭經), which detailed a form of Daoist meditation involving the visualizations of deities within the adept's body, a practice that would become a defining feature of Shangqing. Shangqing has sometimes been described as a "mystical" form of Daoism, emphasising the notion of the human body as a microcosm containing universal energies, which could be actualised by ecstatic union with deities. With the emphasis on meditation, there would be much less attention paid to physiological cultivation by ingesting herbs and drugs, which had been important in earlier forms of Daoism. When Wei's 
Title: Taoist philosophy
Content:  The Daodejing (also known as the Laozi after its purported author, terminus ante quem 3rd-century BCE) has traditionally been seen as the central and founding Taoist text, though historically, it is only one of the many different influences on Taoist thought, and at times, a marginal one at that. The Daodejing changed and developed over time, possibly from a tradition of oral sayings, and is a loose collection of aphorisms on various topics which seek to give the reader wise advice on how to live and govern, and also includes some metaphysical speculations. The Daodejing prominently refers to a subtle universal 
Title: De (Chinese)
Content:  Classic texts of philosophical Daoism frequently refer to de.

Question: what is the sacred text of daoism?
Answer: Tao Te Ching.