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Cultivating perfection : mysticism and self-transformation in early Quanzhen Daoism /
This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Colección: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 76. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, specific training regimens, and the types of experiences that were expected to follow from dedicated praxis. On the basis of historical contextualization and textual analysis it is demonstrated that in its formative and incipient organized phases Quanzhen was a Daoist religious community consi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 553 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-533) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047421733 9047421736 |
| ISSN: | 1547-1217 ; |