Daoist Body Cultivation
by Shawn Arthur, Bede Bidlack, Catherine Despeux, Stephen Jackowicz, Lonny Jarrett, Louis Komjathy, and Michael Winn
Daoist Body Cultivation is a comprehensive volume by a group of dedicated scholars and practitioners that covers the key practices of medical healing, breathing techniques, diets and fasting, healing exercises, sexual practices, Qigong, and Taiji quan. Each presentation places the practice in its historical and cultural context and relates its current application and efficaciousness. Ultimately aiming to energetically transform the person into a spiritual and trancendent being, Daoist cultivatio...
The Xiaodao lun (Laughing at the Dao) is an important document of the debates among Buddhists and Daoists in sixth-century China. These debates contributed to the process of cultural adaptation of Buddhism, which had to accommodate itself to the worldview of the Confucian elite, the Chinese sense of ethnic superiority, and China's indigenous religion of Daoism. Written by the Daoist renegade Zhen Luan in the year 570, the text aims to expose inconsistencies in Daoist doctrine, cosmology, ritual,...
The most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of this esoteric but infinitely practical bestselling book. "No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu's simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many meanings intended." —Alan WattsFor nearly two generations, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English's bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the standard for those seeking access to the wisdom of Taoist thought. Now Jane...
Divided into 82 chapters, each relating to the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of life, this volume presents a guide for living in accordance with the Tao and is designed to empower the reader to achieve meaning and fulfillment.
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and its rise to prominence consequently deeply affect...
The I Ching Project - The I Ching Key (I Ching Project - the I Ching Key, Volume 6)
by John Compton
Tao Te Ching (Book of the Way and Virtue) (Chinese Classics, #2) (Classics of Ancient China, #2)
by Lao Tzu
L'edition la plus claire et lisible du texte integral de Lao Tseu. Le Tao Te King, ouvrage de reference de spiritualite, est compose de 81 textes emprunts de poesie et de philosophie. Le sommaire interactif rend la lecture particulierement fluide et pratique.
