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Product Description: This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent literati scholars of the period. In such a cultural context it then launches an in-depth investigation into the Daoist dimensions of the Chinese narrative masterpiece, The Story of the Stone: the inscriptions of Quanzhen Daoism in the infrastructure of its religious framework, the ideological ramifications of the Daoist concepts of chaos, purity, and the natural, as well as the Daoist images of the gourd, fish, and bird...read more
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9789629964979 | Chinese Univ Pr, September 3, 2013, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent literati scholars of the period.
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9781590306598 | Shambhala Pubns, January 13, 2009, cover price $22.95
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9781590305232 | Shambhala Pubns, November 13, 2007, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Daoism is perhaps the least understood of the world's major religions. Although many millions of readers are familiar with one or more of the seemingly endless translations of the Daode jing (aka Tao Te Ching), most assume that Daoism refers chiefly to a philosophical school or outlook based on naturalism and spontaneity...read more
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9781891640391 | 1 edition (Floating World Edithions, May 30, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Daoism is perhaps the least understood of the world's major religions.
Product Description: This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body of doctrines and practices that Daoists built at that time, from which Daoism as we know it today evolved...read more
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9780804751773 | Stanford Univ Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy.
Product Description: Stephen Eskildsen's book offers an in-depth study of the beliefs and practices of the Quanzhen (Complete Realization) School of Taoism, the predominant school of monastic Taoism in China. The Quanzhen School was founded in the latter half of the twelfth century by the eccentric holy man Wan Zhe (1113-1170), whose work was continued by his famous disciples commonly known as the Seven Realized Ones...read more
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9780791460467 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Stephen Eskildsen's book offers an in-depth study of the beliefs and practices of the Quanzhen (Complete Realization) School of Taoism, the predominant school of monastic Taoism in China.
The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters: Exploring the Realm of Health Care
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9780791460450 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 14, 2004, cover price $50.00
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9780761818687 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 2001, cover price $87.00
Product Description: This guide to the spiritual landscape of Taoism not only introduces the important events in the history of Taoism, the sages who wrote the Taoist texts, and the various schools of Taoist thinking, but also gives the reader a feel for what it means to practice Taoism today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781570621697 | Shambhala Pubns, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This guide to the spiritual landscape of Taoism not only introduces the important events in the history of Taoism, the sages who wrote the Taoist texts, and the various schools of Taoist thinking, but also gives the reader a feel for what it means to practice Taoism today.
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9780948454981 | Cheng & Tsui Co, December 1, 1996, cover price $30.00
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