Taoist Meditation: The Mao-Shan Tradition of Great Purity (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Robinet, Isabelle; Pas, Julian F. (Transl.); Girardot, Norman J. (Transl.)

ISBN 10: 0791413608 / ISBN 13: 9780791413609

Edité par State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1993

A propos de cet article

First edition, trade paperback, has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, moderate rubbing with smudges, scuffs, and edgewear to the covers, a 2" impression to the back cover that affects the last two pages, a crease to the lower corner of the back cover and last 10 pages, scuffs and foxing to the textblock edges, and a previous seller's price sticker over the barcode. Overall, this is a solid, Good+ copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Taoist Meditation: The Mao-Shan Tradition of Great Purity (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
• Éditeur: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0791413608
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780791413609
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: First Edition Thus.
• État de l'article: Good+
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • China
  • Religion
  • Eastern Philosophy

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Synopsis

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 Taoist religion. Most importantly, Taoist Meditation is a pioneering study that fully and accurately describes the unique visionary cosmology, bodily symbolism, astral journeys, internal alchemy, meditational techniques, and ritual practices of the Mao-shan or Shang-chi'ing (Great Purity) movement-one of the most important foundational traditions making up the overall Taoist religion.

This English version of Robinet's work is more than a simple translation.Taoist Meditation presents a significantly expanded edition of the original French text which includes up-to-date bibliographies of Robinet's work and other Western scholarship on Taoism, additional illustrations, and a newly compiled list of textual citations.

À propos de l?auteur

Isabelle Robinet is Professor of Chinese History and Civilization at the University of Aix-Marseille. Julian F. Pas is Professor of Chinese Religions at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Norman J. Girardot is Professor of Comparative Religions at Lehigh University.