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,...
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.
Playful, endearing, and clearly profound, The Tao of Pug looks at the big picture from the eyes of a little dog. Meet Wilson the Pug, a dog with a great deal of wisdom to share. A much-admired spiritual teacher, Wilson lives by the principles of the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese text on the art of living. Passed on through the generations from his ancestor Pug-tzu companion to the philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu the wisdom of the Tao has helped Wilson lead a simple,...