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Early Chinese Mysticism
Author | : Livia Kohn |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781400844463 |
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Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture? This first integrated survey of the mystical dimension of Taoism disputes the commonly accepted idea of such a hiatus. Covering the period from the Daode jing to the end of the Tang, Livia Kohn reveals an often misunderstood Chinese mystical tradition that continued through the ages. Influenced by but ultimately independent of Buddhism, it took forms more various than the quietistic withdrawal of Laozi or the sudden enlightenment of the Chan Buddhists. On the basis of a new theoretical evaluation of mysticism, this study analyzes the relationship between philosophical and religious Taoism and between Buddhism and the native Chinese tradition. Kohn shows how the quietistic and socially oriented Daode jing was combined with the ecstatic and individualistic mysticism of the Zhuangzi, with immortality beliefs and practices, and with Buddhist insight meditation, mind analysis, and doctrines of karma and retribution. She goes on to demonstrate that Chinese mysticism, a complex synthesis by the late Six Dynasties, reached its zenith in the Tang, laying the foundations for later developments in the Song traditions of Inner Alchemy, Chan Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism.
Author | : Harold David Roth |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231115644 |
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Presents a translation and commentary to the oldest known extant Taoist text, Inward Training (Nei-yeh), which is composed of short poetic verses devoted to the practice of breath meditation and its resultant insights about human nature and the cosmos. Roth argues that Inward Training is the basis of early Taoism, and suggests that there may be more continuity between early philosophical Taoism and later Taoist religion than scholars have thought.
Early Chinese Religion Part One Shang through Han 1250 BC 220 AD 2 vols
Author | : John Lagerwey,Marc Kalinowski |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1280 |
Release | : 2008-10-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047442424 |
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Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation, mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices, iconography, and political philosophy. Produced under the aegis of the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).
The Chinese Pakua
Author | : Hean-Tatt Ong |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Astrology, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9679783715 |
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The mystical Pakua is the ubiquitous object that hangs over the doors of Chinese households. The Pakua's multiple layers of inticracies are studied in relation to the origins of ancient Chinese history and culture. - Back cover.
A brief history of early Chinese philosophy
Author | : Teitaro Suzuki |
Publsiher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9785878189569 |
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Probsthain's oriental series. Volume 7. A brief history of early Chinese philosophy
Demystifying the gods goddesses and mythology of Ancient Chinese society
Author | : Henry Romano |
Publsiher | : DTTV PUBLICATIONS |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2021-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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We have in China the universal worship of ancestors, which constitutes (or did until A.D. 1912) the State religion, usually known as Confucianism, and in addition we have the gods of the specific religions (which also originally took their rise in ancestor-worship), namely, Buddhism and Taoism. (Other religions, though tolerated, are not recognized as Chinese religions.) It is with a brief account of this great hierarchy and its mythology that we will now concern ourselves. Besides the ordinary ancestor-worship (as distinct from the State worship) the people took to Buddhism and Taoism, which became the popular religions, and the literati also honoured the gods of these two sects. Buddhist deities gradually became installed in Taoist temples, and the Taoist immortals were given seats beside the Buddhas in their sanctuaries. Every one patronized the god who seemed to him the most popular and the most lucrative. There even came to be united in the same temple and worshipped at the same altar the three religious founders or figure-heads, Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzŭ. The three religions were even regarded as forming one whole, or at least, though different, as having one and the same object: san êrh i yeh, or han san wei i, “the three are one,” or “the three unite to form one” (a quotation from the phrase T’ai chi han san wei i of Fang Yü-lu: “When they reach the extreme the three are seen to be one”). In the popular pictorial representations of the pantheon this impartiality is clearly shown.
Chinese Mystics
Author | : Raymond Van Over |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Mysticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105037043424 |
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Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
Author | : Bryan W. Van Norden |
Publsiher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-03-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781603846059 |
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This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options. It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to relate those options to philosophical figures and movements from the West. I recommend it very highly.--Lee H. Yearley, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University