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Taoist Experience
An Anthology
Av Livia Kohn
Häftad, 1993
504 kr
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Containing sixty translations from a large variety of texts, this is an accessible yet thorough introduction to the major concepts, doctrines, and practices of Taoism. It presents the philosophy, rituals, and health techniques of the ancients as well as the practices and ideas of Taoists today. …
Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity
From the Latter Han Dynasty (25-220) to the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Inbunden, 2015
1286 kr
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An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.Stephen Eskildsen offers an overview of Daoist religious texts from the Latter Han (25–220) through Tang (618–907) periods, exploring passive meditation methods and their anticipated effects. These methods …
Annotated Laozi
A New Translation of the Daodejing
Av Paul Fischer
Häftad, 2024
477 kr
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A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.Written more than two thousand years ago, the Laozi, or Daodejing, is a classic of Chinese intellectual history and has been of foundational importance to cultural and religious …
Understanding the Analects of Confucius
A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations
Av Peimin Ni
Häftad, 2017
528 kr
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A new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences.Winner of the 2019 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature presented by the Modern Language Association The Analects of Confucius is arguably the single most influential work of …
Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare
A Translation of the Classic Chinese Work of Philosophy and Strategy
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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A classic of both military strategy and Eastern philosophy from the fourth century B.C.E.Sun Bin's Art of Warfare is an essential text of Chinese military philosophy and of strategy in general. This book, lost for over two thousand years and rediscovered only in 1972, has not yet reached the …
Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies
Chinese Chan Buddhism and Its Spread throughout East Asia
Av Albert Welter, Steven Heine m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
493 kr
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A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.This volume focuses on Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread across East Asia, with special attention to its …
Sanctioned Violence in Early China
Häftad, 1989
487 kr
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This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence-warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance. It analyzes the interlinked evolution of these violent practices to reveal changes in the nature of political …
Confucian Creation of Heaven
Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery
Av Robert Eno
Häftad, 1990
487 kr
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Explores the earliest Confucian texts to find coherent structural principles linking the various facets of Confucian doctrine. Its central theme is that the coherence of early Confucianism emerges only when doctrine is viewed as a function of the unique ritual practice of the early Confucian …
Two Visions of the Way
A Study of the Wang Pi and the Ho-shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao-Tzu
Häftad, 1991
487 kr
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Shape of the Turtle
Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China
Av Sarah Allan
Häftad, 1991
477 kr
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Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient cosmology. This work is the first reconstructions of the mythic thought of the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700- 1100 B.C.) which laid the foundation for later Chinese patterns of thought. Allan regards the myth, cosmology, divination, sacrificial …
Tao of the Tao Te Ching
A Translation and Commentary
Häftad, 1992
463 kr
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In this new translation and commentary, LaFargue interprets the concept of "Tao" in the Tao Te Ching as a spiritual state of mind cultivated in a particular school in ancient China, a state of mind which also expressed itself in a simple but satisfying life-style, and in a low-key but effective …
Taoist Meditation
The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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Isabelle Robinet's Taoist Meditation is the first and only scholarly study to discuss the ancient Mao-shan Taoist tradition of visionary meditation while, at the same time, helping to clarify the little understood relationship among the early Taoist classics, the Buddhist tradition, and the later …
Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi
A Study of the Tian Lun
Inbunden, 1993
1040 kr
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This translation and commentary on Xunzi's Tian Lun argues against naturalistic interpretations of Tian. Tracing the course of interpretation of Xunzi down to the present, discussing some of the influences that affected how he was understood, and raising questions about some contemporary …
Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought
Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi
Häftad, 1993
504 kr
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The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, "The Treatise on the …
Tao and Method
A Reasoned Approach to the Tao Te Ching
Häftad, 1994
455 kr
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While the Tao Te Ching has been translated and commented on countless times, interpretations are seldom based on systematic theoretical treatment of the problems of interpretive method posed by this enigmatic classic. Beginning with a critical discussion of modern hermeneutics including treatments …
Elemental Changes
The Ancient Chinese Companion to the I Ching. The T'ai Hsüan Ching of Master Yang Hsiung Text and Commentaries translated by Michael Nylan
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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Composed in 2 B.C., as "The I Ching revised and enlarged," The Elemental Changes is a divination manual providing a clear method for distinguishing alternative courses of action. Structured in 81 tetragrams ( as opposed to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching), the book offers much to the modern reader. …
Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age
A Reconstruction under the Aspect of the Breakthrough Toward Postconventional Thinking
Av Heiner Roetz
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age describes the formative period of Chinese culture-the last centuries of the Zhou dynasty-as an early epoch of enlightenment. It comprehensively reconstructs the ethical discourse as thought gradually became emancipated from tradition and institutions. Rather than …
Way, Learning, and Politics
Essays on the Confucian Intellectual
Av Tu Wei-ming
Häftad, 1993
463 kr
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The emergence of New Confucian Humanism as a major intellectual and spiritual tradition in the Chinese cultural area since the Second World War is a phenomenon vitally important and intriguing to students of history, philosophy, and religion. The Confucian vision, rooted in the Chinese, Korean, …
All Under Heaven
Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue
Häftad, 1994
371 kr
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This book is a study of comparative philosophy and theology. The themes are the critical issues arising from the modern interpretation of Confucian doctrine as they confront the Christian beliefs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
God's Own Tale
The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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This scripture was revealed through spirit writing in 1181. It traces Wenchang's development through his many transformations culminating in his apotheosis as director of the Wenchang Palace and custodian of the Cinnamon Record that determines men's and women's fates. The god has since assumed a …
China Under Jurchen Rule
Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History
Av Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Stephen H. West
Häftad, 1995
502 kr
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This is the most extensive study of Chin dynasty history in any language. It demonstrates the importance of cultural developments in North China under the Chin (1115-1234).
Spirits are Drunk
Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion
Av Jordan Paper
Häftad, 1995
625 kr
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A comparative treatment of the religious beliefs and practices of Chinese traditional cultureThe Spirits are Drunk presents Chinese religion as a complex, singular construct that is the basis of Chinese culture and civilization from its inception to the present. It focuses on the development and …
Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty
Av Douglas Wile
Häftad, 1996
532 kr
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Analysis of rich new material allows Wile to make a fresh survey of longstanding issues: the origins of T'ai-chi; the authorship of the classics; the differences between Wu, Yang, and Li; and the roles of such figures as Chang San-feng, Wang Tsung-yueh, Chiang Fa, and the formerly missing link, …
Cloudy Mirror
Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian
Häftad, 1995
477 kr
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Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of …
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi
Av Paul Kjellberg, Philip J. Ivanhoe
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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The Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi was written by Zhuangzi in the fourth century BCE. With humor and relentless logic Zhuangzi attacks claims to knowledge about the world, especially evaluative knowledge of what is good and bad or right and wrong. This book is about the man and the text.The …
Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi)
A Rhetorical Reading
Häftad, 1996
560 kr
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This first book-length study in English explores the long neglected ancient Chinese treatise: the Pheasant Cap Master or He guan zi (3rd century B.C.).
Before Confucius
Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics
Häftad, 1997
463 kr
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Examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry, and attempts to restore their original meanings.Edward L. Shaughnessy examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the …
Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
Av Sarah Allan
Häftad, 1997
455 kr
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Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought.This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by …
In Search of Personal Welfare
A View of Ancient Chinese Religion
Av Mu-chou Poo
Häftad, 1998
487 kr
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The first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years, this book presents the religious mentality of the period through personal and daily experiences.This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a …
Confucianism and the Family
Av Walter H. Slote, George A. de De Vos
Häftad, 1998
487 kr
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the Confucian family in East Asia which includes historical, psychocultural, and gender studies perspectives.The family is central to societies that have been profoundly influenced by the Confucian, and later Neo-Confucian, mandate. This book examines the nature …
