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Dao‐Xiu Zhou
Dao-Xiu Zhou is a plant biologist who studies epigenetic regulation in rice, working at Université Paris-Saclay in France and, since 2003, at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China.
Dao'an (Eastern Jin monk, 312–385)
Dao'an (道安, 312–385) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Eastern Jin period, called a father of Chinese Buddhism for his scripture catalog, monastic rules, and translation bureau in Chang'an.
Dao'an (Tang dynasty Vinaya master, 654–717)
Dao'an (道岸, 654–717) was a Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk and Nanshan Vinaya master who spread the Four-Part Vinaya through Jiangnan and taught Jianzhen, who later carried Buddhist ordination to Japan.
Daochuo
Daochuo (道綽, known in Japan as Dōshaku) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, 562–645, who transmitted Tanluan's Pure Land teaching, wrote the Anle ji, and is counted as the second Pure Land patriarch.
Daodu
Daodu (道度, 462–526) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liang dynasty who transmitted the bodhisattva precepts to 170 believers and died by self-immolation while reciting the Lotus Sutra.
Daofa
Daofa (道法) was a fifth-century Chinese Buddhist monk, reportedly dead by 474, who lived through the Northern Wei persecution of Buddhism from 445 to 453 and its later restoration.
Daofu
Daofu (道怤), also known as Jingqing Daofu, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the late Tang and Five Dynasties period, a Dharma heir of Xuefeng Yicun.
Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
Daoguang Emperor (道光帝, Minning, temple name Xuanzong) was the Qing emperor from 1820 to 1850, known for fiscal austerity, the 1824 Grand Canal crisis, opium prohibition, and the First Opium War.
Daohua Jiang
Daohua Jiang (姜道华) is a Chinese structural biologist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for cryo-EM structures of the cardiac sodium channel NaV1.5.
Daoism (Daoist school)
Daoism (道家) was a school of thought of China's Warring States period, grouped under one name by Han historians and politically influential in the early Western Han.
Daoism in Goryeo
Daoism in Goryeo (고려 도교) is the practice and state sponsorship of Daoism in Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), which favored Daoism most among Korea's states.
Daoist canon compilation bureaus
Daoist canon compilation bureaus were Song court enterprises that compiled the imperial Daoist canon, from Emperor Taizong's collation to the 4,565-juan Da Song Tiangong baozang completed in 1019.
Daoist establishment of Jin
The Daoist establishment of Jin (金朝道教教团) was the organized Daoism of the Jurchen Jin dynasty, with the Quanzhen, Dadao, and Taiyi schools founded in the mid-twelfth century.
Daolin Tang
Daolin Tang is a Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who directs the Center for DAMP Biology and studies ferroptosis, DAMPs, and pancreatic cancer.
Daomeng
Daomeng (道猛) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liu Song dynasty who mastered the Tripitaka and became preeminent in the Chengshi lun, heading Xinghuang Temple from 465.
Daomin
Daomin (道旻, 1047–1114) was a Song-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk who succeeded to the dharma of Letan Yinggan, taught at Guanxi, and was the teacher of Zhenxie Qingliao.
Daonapa Patcharachai
Daonapa Patcharachai, earlier romanized as Daonapa Petampai or Petchermpai, is a Thai businesswoman who co-founded Muangthai Capital in 1992 and was named Thailand's wealthiest woman by Forbes in 2026.
Daonella
Daonella is an extinct genus of thin-shelled pelagic bivalves (Mojsisovics, 1874; type species Halobia lommeli) dominant in Middle Triassic to Early Carnian Tethyan seas, a biostratigraphic index fossil that evolved into Halobia and lived on soft, soupy seafloors.
Daoqi (Song Buddhist monk)
Daoqi (道齐), 929 to 997, was an early Song Buddhist monk of the Fayan school of Chan, a native of Hongzhou in modern Jiangxi with the secular surname Jin.
Daoqin
Daoqin (道钦), also written Faqin, was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist monk who founded Jingshan Monastery near Hangzhou and received the imperial title Guoyi Chanshi from Emperor Daizong in 768.
Daoshi
Daoshi (道世), also known by his style name Xuanyun, was an early Tang Chinese Vinaya monk who compiled the Fayuan zhulin, a 100-juan Buddhist encyclopedia completed in 668.
Daotong Investment & Aopumai Bio-manufacturing Fund
The Daotong Investment & Aopumai Bio-manufacturing Fund, registered as 上海奥创先导创业投资基金合伙企业, is a Shanghai venture fund for bio-manufacturing, launched in October 2025 with a target of RMB 1 billion.
Daou Data
Daou Data (다우데이타) is a South Korean company founded in 1992 that distributes software and hardware and runs VAN and electronic payment services, and is the top controlling company of the Daou Kiwoom Group.
Daou Technology
Daou Technology (다우기술) is a South Korean IT-services company founded in 1986, listed on the KOSPI since 1997, best known as the IT arm of the Daou Kiwoom group and the founder of Kiwoom Securities.
Daouda Karaboue
Daouda Karaboué, born 1975 in Abidjan, is a French-Ivorian retired handball goalkeeper; two Olympic golds (2008, 2012), world and European champion with France, Montpellier and Toulouse player, later goalkeeper coach.
Daowang
Daowang (道汪) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liu Song dynasty, versed in the Nirvana Sutra, who led the sangha in Chengdu until his death in 466.
Daoxin
Daoxin (道信, 580–651), also known as Chan Master Dayi, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk counted as the Fourth Patriarch, between Sengcan and Hongren.
Daoxuan
Daoxuan (道宣) was a Tang dynasty Buddhist master, historian, and de facto founder of the Nanshan Vinaya school, whose commentaries shaped monastic ordination in China and Japan.
Daoy
Daoy, also written DAOY, is a continuous human cell line established in 1985 from a 4-year-old boy's cerebellar medulloblastoma, used as a standard laboratory model of the childhood brain tumor.
Daoyan
Daoyan (道颜, 1094–1164) was a Song-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji school, best known as a dharma heir of Dahui Zonggao and abbot of Donglin monastery.