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World History in Context This link opens in a new window
Search for Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism to find historical overviews and articles about the influence these beliefs have on Chinese culture.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Search for Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism to find reference overviews.

The Religions Book
ISBN: 9781465408433
This definitive guide explores all the faiths from around the world. Together with the five main religions of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, there is a diverse range of newer faiths to ensure a compelling and comprehensive read.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Presents entries covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics.

Taoism

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Confucianism

ARTStor This link opens in a new window
Find high resolution images of paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, textiles, and more.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
This database is full of images and information such as biographies, definitions, and encyclopedia entries.

SF Asian Art Museum
Search for Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism (tip: add the search term China to be more exact!)

Sacred Texts
This site has free access to many primary sources from Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Buddhism

The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings.

Confucianism

I Ching, interpreted by Sam Reifler
Ancient text informed by informed by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism
The Analects by Confucius
The Norton Critical Edition aims to situate the historical figure of Kongzi, the legendary figure of Confucius, and the Analects (or Lunyu), the single most influential book ascribed to the Master's circle of disciples, within their evolving ethical, cultural, and political contexts.

Daoism

The Essential Tao
"This is Thomas Cleary's translation of two classic Chinese books describing the essential philosophy and practice of Tao, written long ago as maps of the Way: Tao Te Ching and Chuang-tzu.