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Great Clarity : Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Conventions
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: The Heaven of Great Clarity and Its Revelations
- 1. The Early History of Chinese Alchemy and the Way of the Great Clarity
- 2. The Heaven of Great Clarity
- 3. The Great Clarity Corpus
- Part Two: The Elixirs of the Great Clarity
- 4. The Crucible and the Elixir
- 5. Ritual Sequence
- 6. The Medicines of Great Clarity
- Part Three: A History of the Great Clarity
- 7. Gods, Demons, and Elixirs: Alchemy in Fourth-Century Jiangnan.
- 8. The Way of the Great Clarity and Daoism in the Six Dynasties
- Part Four: Texts of the Great Clarity
- 9. Scripture of the Nine Elixirs
- 10. Scripture of the Golden Liquor
- 11. Scripture of the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles
- Part Five: The Legacy of the Great Clarity
- 12. The Later History of Chinese Alchemy and the Decline of the Great Clarity
- Appendixes
- A. Dates of Texts in the Waidan Corpus
- B. Additional Notes on Great Clarity and Related Texts
- C. Additional Notes on the Commentary to the Scripture of the Nine Elixirs
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Quoted
- Index.