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The Chinese Daoist Association Adopts the Maoshan Declaration and Eight Year Plan

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In October 2008, the Chinese Daoist Association convened its third ecology conference at the Daoist temple complex of Maoshan in Jurong, Jiangsu province, drawing 69 Daoist monks and nuns alongside 120 government officials and representatives of the United Nations Development Programme. The conference produced the Maoshan Declaration, a set of seven ecological commitments including ecological education, simpler lifestyles and a Daoist Ecological Protection Network, and the China Daoist Ecology Protection Eight Year Plan, a detailed sustainability program for 2010 to 2017 covering temple construction, incense burning, resource management and the prohibition of endangered species in Daoist healthcare practice. The plan built on the association's 1995 Declaration on Global Ecology, its 2003 Daoist Faith Statement and the 2006 Qinling Declaration produced at the association's first ecology conference at the Tiejia Ecology Temple in Shaanxi province.

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from 2008 1
End Year
to 2017 1
The China Daoist Ecology Protection Eight Year Plan adopted at the 2008 Maoshan conference set its own sustainability program to run from 2010 to 2017.
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Established 1
Established marks the Chinese Daoist Association's own conference and the declaration and plan it produced. It is not a claim about the plan's on the ground implementation in individual temples, nor about the Chinese government's broader use of religious ecological messaging as part of its own ecological civilization policy, which independent scholarship has separately noted.
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How the Chinese Daoist Association Adopted the Maoshan Declaration and Eight Year Plan

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In October 2008, the Chinese Daoist Association convened its third ecology conference at the Daoist temple complex of Maoshan in Jurong, Jiangsu province.

The conference drew 69 Daoist monks and nuns alongside 120 government officials and representatives of the United Nations Development Programme.

It produced two documents. The Maoshan Declaration set out seven ecological commitments, including ecological education, simpler lifestyles and a Daoist Ecological Protection Network. The China Daoist Ecology Protection Eight Year Plan laid out a detailed sustainability program running from 2010 to 2017, covering temple construction, incense burning, resource management and a prohibition on using endangered species in Daoist healthcare practice.

The 2008 plan built on three earlier documents from the association, its 1995 Declaration on Global Ecology, its 2003 Daoist Faith Statement, and the 2006 Qinling Declaration, which the association had produced at its first ecology conference at the Tiejia Ecology Temple in Shaanxi province.

What the Maoshan conference changed for the Chinese Daoist Association's environmental program was extending a line of declarations reaching back to 1995 into a dated, eight year operating plan, naming a 2010 to 2017 window and specific practices across temple building, incense use, resource management and healthcare.

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Global, Continents

This source names Global directly: "The plan built on the association's 1995 Declaration on Global Ecology, its 2003 Daoist Faith Statement and the 2006 Qinling Declaration produced at the association's first ecology conference at the..."

Source Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization (Lemche and Miller, Religions, 2019)Jennifer Lemche and James Miller

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China, Countries
Source Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization (Lemche and Miller, Religions, 2019)Jennifer Lemche and James Miller

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Taoism, Religions

Closes a 32-year gap since 1994's The Wudang Mountains Join UNESCO's World Heritage List, the most recent event already on Taoism's map, with the association's most substantial ecological commitment to date.

Source Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization (Lemche and Miller, Religions, 2019)Jennifer Lemche and James Miller
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1. Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization (Lemche and Miller, Religions, 2019)
Jennifer Lemche and James Miller, Religions (MDPI), 2019View the Source
China Daoist Ecology Protection Eight Year Plan (Alliance of Religions and Conservation)
China Daoist Association and Alliance of Religions and Conservation, 2008View the Source
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