Cargando…
Roaming into the Beyond.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2016.
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| Colección: | Sinica Leidensia Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction; Chapter 1; Religious and Literary Background; The Ideal of Xian-ship; A Historical Survey of Immortality Cults; Methods of Achieving Immortality; Prose Accounts of Immortality; Poetry on Immortality; Literary Criticism on Youxian Verse; Chapter 2; The Dramatis Personae; Xi Wangmu; The Yellow Emperor; Laozi; Wangzi Qiao, Master Redpine, and Other Immortals; Transformations of the Pantheon; Chapter 3; A Phenomenology of Immortals; Images of Immortals from the Han to the Eastern Jin.
- Transformation and Transcendence The Visual Image of Immortals; The Far-Off Journey; Levitation and Fantastic Steeds; Spontaneity and Swiftness; Immortals' Feasts; The Hidden Immortal; Celestial Splendor and Courtly Refinement: The Southern Dynasties; Images of Eternity; Chapter 4; The World of the Immortals; Topography; Cosmic Mountains and Paradise Gardens; The Lands of the Shangqing Revelations; Paradise on Earth; The Court Dulcification of Otherworldly Nature; Chapter 5; The Way to Immortality; Journeys to Other Worlds; The "Yuanyou" Poem of the Chuci.
- The Distant Journey in the Han Fu The Journey Theme in the Yuefu Tradition; The Distant Journey as a State of Mind; Sun Chuo's Visionary Ascent of the Tiantai Mountains; The Elixir Way; Alchemical Formulas and Sacred Scriptures; Chapter 6; Immortality in the Context of the Human World; The Juxtaposition of the Two Realms in the Chuci Tradition; Melancholy and Yearning for Immortality during the Third and Fourth Centuries; Social Engagement, Hedonism, or Immortality Seeking?; Honoring the Immortals; Feasting Songs; Tableaus of Higher Realms; The Earth Below Is Out of Sight.
- Poetry on Immortality and Personal Religious Pursuits Youxian Poetry and Daoist Ritual Hymns; Conclusion; Appendix; Extant Classical and Early Medieval Verse Treating the Theme of Immortality; Bibliography; Frequently Used Collections and Digital Archives; Index.