Author: Livia Kohn

Meditation Works: In the Hindu, Buddhist, and Daoist Traditions

Based on extensive cultural studies and long years of practice, Livia Kohn here creates a new typology of meditation based on six distinct ways of accessing the subconscious. In a special chapter on each type, she outlines the physiology, world view, and traditional practice as well as its modern medical adaptations and organizational settings. Providing a thorough theoretical framework combined with a comprehensive, analytical overview and extensive practical applications, the book greatly advances our understanding of meditation.

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Chen Tuan: Discussions and Translations

This book contains three essays and five translations on the Song Daoist saint and immortal Chen Tuan. It is based on the author’s dissertation (Leben und Legende des Chen Tuan, 1981), which focused on questions of legend development and the problem of what “immortality” meant as a religious ideal in the Song dynasty. Later she supplemented this work with materials on Chen Tuan as a physiognomist published in two articles and by editing a volume for Taoist Resources (1989). The collection includes all these and some additional materials.

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Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood

This book presents unique materials on the lives and religious quests of Daoist women in medieval China. Based on Du Guangting’s (850-933) extensive record of Daoist women’s biographies, covering the entire scope of medieval Chinese society and ranging from the 3^rd to the 9^th centuries, the book explores the social context, ideals, and specific techniques of their practice. It also relates the stories to overall Daoist themes and contemporaneous political events, carefully analyzing both the spiritual and lifestyle choices women made in ancient China. A well-crafted work and unique in its scholarly solidity and breadth of insights, Divine Traces is a classic in the field

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The Zhong-Lü System of Internal Alchemy

This exciting new work translates two 12^th-century texts associated with the legendary immortals Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin, founders of the Zhong Lü tradition of internal alchemy. First, the Zhong-Lü chuandao ji, in dialogue format, outlines the cosmological parameters of the practice, then describes various methods of attainment. Second, the Lingbao bifa, assembling various revealed sources and commentaries, presents similar concepts and adds more specific practices. In addition to the translations, The Zhong-Lü System provides a discussion in five chapters: Historical Unfolding, The Workings of the Universe, The Human Condition, Stages and Processes, and Key Practices. It makes both the underlying cosmology and the practical transformation accessible and understandable in plain, straightforward language. Beyond providing an in-depth understanding for modern practitioners, the work is essential for anyone concerned with Daoist history, cosmology, and internal alchemy.

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Declarations of the Perfected–Part One: Setting Scripts and Images into Motion

This is the first part of a complete, annotated translation of the Zhen’gao, Tao Hongjing’s (456-536) masterful compilation of the Shangqing or Higher Clarity revelations, setting the stage for the heyday of medieval Daoism. This volume presents its first part (fasc.1-4), centering around the practice of achieving “spiritual union,” a spiritual analogue to sexual intercourse, with Perfected partners. The book is the first to examine in depth the full process of this practice—from preliminary courtship to the act of union itself, the gestation of the Perfected embryo in the body of the adept, and finally the adept’s rebirth.

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The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision, and Revelation in Medieval Daoism

Highest Clarity (Shangqing) was a Daoist religious movement that flourished for a thousand years in medieval China. This book explores its chief religious ideas and practices through three key texts, translated into English for the first time. Together with introductory essays on the concepts of nature, vision, and revelation, the book provides an overview of a unique and fascinating religious imagination, of interest to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of humanity’s cultural heritage. It is a prime study of a major Daoist school, offering path-breaking research of this little-known aspect of medieval Chinese culture

Author: James Miller2008245 PagesISBN: 978-1-931483-09-4Cite

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Living with the Dao: Conceptual Issues in Daoist Practice

In medieval Daoist practice as much as today, the alignment of the body and the harmonization of qi bring about the transformation of the emotions and the unfold-ing of spirit. In addition, progress along the path also requires the rethinking and reformu-lating of basic ideas about self, world, and universe, the adjustment of the mind and one’s sense of identity to the flow of Dao. Illuminating this facet, this collection of thirteen essays covers issues of mind and body, self and personality, good and evil, qigong and ritual, as well as prolongevity and ecology.

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Laughing at the Dao: Debates among Buddhists and Daoists in Medieval China

The Xiaodao lun (Laughing at the Dao) is a key document of medieval debates among Buddhists and Daoists. Written by the Daoist renegade Zhen Luan in 570, it aims to expose inconsistencies in Daoist doctrine, cosmology, ritual, and religious practice. This complete and fully annotated translation places the work in the context of the debates and exposes the political schemes behind apparently religious disputes. The introduction outlines the history of the debates while two appendixes present materials of earlier and later debates and Daoist sources cited in the text. Richly informed and highly relevant to an understanding of medieval China, the work enhances the study of medieval Buddhist and Daoist myth, rhetoric, and ideology.

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Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi

Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi is a classic in the field. Originally published in 1983, this edition makes it available again in an expanded version, with four additional contributions by Harold Roth, Deborah Sommer, Erin Cline, and Ronnie Littlejohn. The volume is updated in format, with pinyin transliteration, Chinese characters embedd-ed in the text, and reference-style notes. The work is a well-respected textbook and essential reader in Daoist thought. It continues to constitute an essential contribution to the study of Daoism and Chinese philosophy.

Author: Victor Mair, ed.2010250 PagesISBN: 978-1-931483-15-5Cite

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New Visions of the Zhuangzi

A collection of thirteen essays on the ancient Daoist philosophical work Zhuangzi, this presents new angles and approaches. It overcomes the traditional division of schools in favor of topics, sheds new light on key philosophical notions, examines Zhuangzi’s relation to language, and explores issues of ethics, virtue, and personal perfection. In addition, it also applies modern neuroscience to its instructions, explores its vision of the ideal mind, and connects Zhuangzi’s teachings to issues of education and community relevant in contemporary society.

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