Origin from 2023
From 24 to 25 September 2023, the China Taoist Association and the Chinese Association for Religious and Cultural Exchange hosted the fifth International Daoism Forum at Mount Maoshan in Jiangsu province, the same mountain where the Chinese Daoist Association had adopted its Maoshan Declaration in 2008. More than five hundred delegates, practitioners, scholars and officials from thirty-nine countries and regions attended, under the theme Respecting Tao and Upholding Virtue, Walking with the World. During the Forum, fifty-two Daoist organizations from twenty countries and regions founded the World Federation of Daoism, the faith's first global umbrella body, and elected Li Guangfu, president of the China Taoist Association, as its chairman. Vice Chairman Zhang Gaocheng called the federation's founding a landmark event in the religion's history.
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StatusEstablished marks the Forum's own convening and the federation's founding at it. It is not a claim about the new federation's relationship to Taiwan's or Hong Kong's own Taoist associations, both of which co-sponsored the Forum, or about the Chinese government's wider religious policy, questions this atlas does not adjudicate here. Connections
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This source names Global directly: "of Daoism, the faith's first global umbrella body, and elected Li Guangfu, president of the China Taoist Association, as its chairman."
Source World Federation of Daoism Established to Promote Unity of Daoists (Xinhua)
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Source World Federation of Daoism Established to Promote Unity of Daoists (Xinhua)
Spread Event Of
Closes an 18 year gap since 2008's The Chinese Daoist Association Adopts the Maoshan Declaration and Eight Year Plan, the most recent event already on Taoism's map, with a new global federation founded on the very same mountain.
Source World Federation of Daoism Established to Promote Unity of Daoists (Xinhua)
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1. World Federation of Daoism Established to Promote Unity of Daoists (Xinhua)
World Federation of Daoism Established to Promote Daoist Unity (CGTN)
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