Translated and introduced by Louis Komjathy (Ph.D., Religious Studies; Boston University),
Handbooks for Daoist Practice (Xiudao shouce 修道手冊) is a series of translations of
nine important, representative, and practice-
The handbooks are as follows: (1) Inward Training; (2) Book of Venerable Masters;
(3) Yellow Thearch's Basic Questions; (4) Scripture on Clarity and Stillness; (5)
Scriptural Statutes of Lord Lao; (6) Scripture for Daily Internal Practice; (7) Scripture
on the Hidden Talisman; (8) Redoubled Yang's Fifteen Discourses; and (9) Book of
Master Celestial Seclusion. Handbooks for Daoist Practice consists of these nine
booklets plus an introductory booklet discussing the translation series as a whole.
The introductory booklet is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the study
and practice of Daoism (Taoism). The published set also includes a slip-
Handbooks for Daoist Practice is currently unavailable, but the final manuscript proofs were just corrected. If all goes well, the collection should be published by the Yuen Yuen Institute (Hong Kong) sometime in 2008, though the exact publication date is currently unclear.
Read the review by Shijing 世靜, Chairman of the British Taoist Association.
