To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth : A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents /

In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campany, Robert F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2002]
Colección:Daoist Classics ; 2
Temas:
Taoists > Biography > China.
Taoists > China > Biography.
RELIGION / Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY / Taoist).
alchemy.
ancient china.
archival work.
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