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Taoism : the enduring tradition /
"Taoism: The Enduring Tradition offers fresh perspectives on a religious and cultural tradition which has unfolded since the fifth century as a form of integration into the unseen realities of life. Exploring Taoist voices in sacred texts and current scholarship, and showing how Taoism differs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Understanding Taoism
- Realities, constructs, and hermeneutical challenges
- What "Taoism" is : fact, tradition, and self-identification
- The data-set of "Taoism" : a taxonomic approach
- 2. The classical legacy
- Taoism and "the hundred schools"
- The "useless words" of Chuang Chou
- Cultivating life's subtle forces : the Nei-yeh
- From "the elders" of Ch'u to the Chi-hsia academy : the Tao te ching
- What Taoists inherited from classical texts
- 3. The course of the Taoist tradition
- Wellsprings : the Han dynasty
- Southerly currents
- Northerly currents
- The high-water mark : the T'ang dynasty
- The damming of the Tao?
- Old currents, new channels
- Life in the tideways
- 4. The socio-political matrix of Taoism
- "Literati Taoism "
- Women in Taoism : data, interpretation, and issues
- Women in Taoist history
- Taoists and dynasts
- 5. The cultivate life
- Life, death, and "transcendence"
- "Cultivating reality"
- Conclusion.