The book is based on the study of early written monuments of the Taoist religious tradition from the book collection of the Shanqing school (Higher Purity) - the problems of their formation, structural foundations, ideological and theoretical and figurative-metaphorical content in its historical development. The monograph illuminates the previously little-studied layer of daology, synological source study and textology and contains new material on the history of Chinese civilization during the early Middle Ages. The author for the first time proposed a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of early monuments from the Taoist canon; The Taoist system of ideas about man, considered as a space of explication of the most important forces of the universe (the concept of the anthropological cosmos) Some fundamental works of the Taoist religious tradition were analyzed, significant adjustments were made to the understanding of the origins, genesis and evolution of Taoist books of the III-VI centuries . , as well as the history and composition of the early book collection of the Taoist school of Shanqing. The materials of the book can be used in the preparation of encyclopedic and reference works, textbooks and lecture courses on Daology, the history of Chinese civilization, Sinological Textology and Source Studies, as well as in practical work with works from the Taoist Canon .. Addressed to Chinese scholars, religious scholars, as well as all those interested in Taoism, the history of Chinese spiritual civilization and the religions of the East