Harold D. Roth is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and the Founder and Director of the Contemplative Studies Program at Brown University. His books include The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu; Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism; Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual (coedited with Livia Kohn); The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and The Essential Huainanzi (cotranslated and edited with John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, and Andrew Seth Meyer).

"Roth's textual archaeology of inner cultivation in Daoist texts is inspiring and certainly convincing … this collection is a remarkable achievement and a valuable resource for scholars and students of China, and will be useful and thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in Daoism and contemplative practices." — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"In this collection, Harold Roth brings together the pivotal essays representing both the innovation and expertise that have marked his scholarship on Daoism for roughly the last twenty-five years." — Philosophy East and West"This compilation of 13 scholarly papers published between 1991 and 2018 is a timely reminder of Roth's significant contribution to our methods of reading ancient Chinese philosophy and defining the origins of Daoist thought and practice…the book's value lies in the knowledge it conveys on intriguing and hard-to-read ancient philosophical texts." — Religious Studies Review

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsPermissionsIntroductionPart I: Contemplative Foundations and Textual Methods1. Psychology and Self-Cultivation in Early Daoistic Thought2. Who Compiled the Zhuangzi莊子?3. Redaction Criticism and the Early History of Daoism4. Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Daoism5. The Yellow Emperor's Guru: A Narrative Analysis from Zhuangzi莊子116. Revisiting Angus C. Graham's Scholarship on the Zhuangzi莊子7. Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi淮南子Part II: Contemplative Foundations and Philosophical Contexts8. The Laozi老子in the Context of Early Daoist Mystical Praxis9. Bimodal Mystical Experience in the "Qi wu lun"齊物論of Zhuangzi莊子10. Nature and Self-Cultivation in Huainanzi's淮南子"Yuan Dao"原道(Originating in the Way)11. The Classical Daoist Concept of Li理(Pattern) and Early Chinese Cosmology12. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi莊子13. Against Cognitive Imperialism: A Call for a Non-Ethnocentric Approach to Cognitive Science and Religious StudiesAfterword: The "Contemplative Hermeneutic" and the Problem of Zhuangzi's Inner ChaptersNotesAppendix 1: The Chapters of the ZhuangziAppendix 2: The Chapters of the HuainanziIndex

Harold D. Roth is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and the Founder and Director of the Contemplative Studies Program at Brown University. His books include The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu; Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism; Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual (coedited with Livia Kohn); The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and The Essential Huainanzi (cotranslated and edited with John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, and Andrew Seth Meyer).

"Roth's textual archaeology of inner cultivation in Daoist texts is inspiring and certainly convincing … this collection is a remarkable achievement and a valuable resource for scholars and students of China, and will be useful and thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in Daoism and contemplative practices." — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"In this collection, Harold Roth brings together the pivotal essays representing both the innovation and expertise that have marked his scholarship on Daoism for roughly the last twenty-five years." — Philosophy East and West"This compilation of 13 scholarly papers published between 1991 and 2018 is a timely reminder of Roth's significant contribution to our methods of reading ancient Chinese philosophy and defining the origins of Daoist thought and practice…the book's value lies in the knowledge it conveys on intriguing and hard-to-read ancient philosophical texts." — Religious Studies Review

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsPermissionsIntroductionPart I: Contemplative Foundations and Textual Methods1. Psychology and Self-Cultivation in Early Daoistic Thought2. Who Compiled the Zhuangzi莊子?3. Redaction Criticism and the Early History of Daoism4. Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Daoism5. The Yellow Emperor's Guru: A Narrative Analysis from Zhuangzi莊子116. Revisiting Angus C. Graham's Scholarship on the Zhuangzi莊子7. Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi淮南子Part II: Contemplative Foundations and Philosophical Contexts8. The Laozi老子in the Context of Early Daoist Mystical Praxis9. Bimodal Mystical Experience in the "Qi wu lun"齊物論of Zhuangzi莊子10. Nature and Self-Cultivation in Huainanzi's淮南子"Yuan Dao"原道(Originating in the Way)11. The Classical Daoist Concept of Li理(Pattern) and Early Chinese Cosmology12. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi莊子13. Against Cognitive Imperialism: A Call for a Non-Ethnocentric Approach to Cognitive Science and Religious StudiesAfterword: The "Contemplative Hermeneutic" and the Problem of Zhuangzi's Inner ChaptersNotesAppendix 1: The Chapters of the ZhuangziAppendix 2: The Chapters of the HuainanziIndex

Harold D. Roth is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and the Founder and Director of the Contemplative Studies Program at Brown University. His books include The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu; Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism; Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual (coedited with Livia Kohn); The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and The Essential Huainanzi (cotranslated and edited with John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, and Andrew Seth Meyer).

"Roth's textual archaeology of inner cultivation in Daoist texts is inspiring and certainly convincing … this collection is a remarkable achievement and a valuable resource for scholars and students of China, and will be useful and thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in Daoism and contemplative practices." — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"In this collection, Harold Roth brings together the pivotal essays representing both the innovation and expertise that have marked his scholarship on Daoism for roughly the last twenty-five years." — Philosophy East and West"This compilation of 13 scholarly papers published between 1991 and 2018 is a timely reminder of Roth's significant contribution to our methods of reading ancient Chinese philosophy and defining the origins of Daoist thought and practice…the book's value lies in the knowledge it conveys on intriguing and hard-to-read ancient philosophical texts." — Religious Studies Review

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsPermissionsIntroductionPart I: Contemplative Foundations and Textual Methods1. Psychology and Self-Cultivation in Early Daoistic Thought2. Who Compiled the Zhuangzi莊子?3. Redaction Criticism and the Early History of Daoism4. Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Daoism5. The Yellow Emperor's Guru: A Narrative Analysis from Zhuangzi莊子116. Revisiting Angus C. Graham's Scholarship on the Zhuangzi莊子7. Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi淮南子Part II: Contemplative Foundations and Philosophical Contexts8. The Laozi老子in the Context of Early Daoist Mystical Praxis9. Bimodal Mystical Experience in the "Qi wu lun"齊物論of Zhuangzi莊子10. Nature and Self-Cultivation in Huainanzi's淮南子"Yuan Dao"原道(Originating in the Way)11. The Classical Daoist Concept of Li理(Pattern) and Early Chinese Cosmology12. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi莊子13. Against Cognitive Imperialism: A Call for a Non-Ethnocentric Approach to Cognitive Science and Religious StudiesAfterword: The "Contemplative Hermeneutic" and the Problem of Zhuangzi's Inner ChaptersNotesAppendix 1: The Chapters of the ZhuangziAppendix 2: The Chapters of the HuainanziIndex