The Taoist Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Taoist Experience write by Livia Kohn. This book was released on 1993-01-01. The Taoist Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Divided into four sections, it follows the Taoist Path: The Tao, Long Life, Eternal Vision, and Immortality. It shows how the world of the Tao is perceived from within the tradition, what fervent Taoists did, and how practitioners saw their path and goals. The Taoist Experience is unique in that it presents the whole of Taoist tradition in the very words of its active practitioners. It conveys not only a sense of the depth of the Taoist religious experience but also of the underlying unity of the various schools and strands.
Early Chinese Mysticism
Early Chinese Mysticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Chinese Mysticism write by Livia Kohn. This book was released on 1992. Early Chinese Mysticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture? This first integrated survey of the mystical dimension of Taoism disputes the commonly accepted idea of such a hiatus. Covering the period from the Daode jing to the end of the Tang, Livia Kohn reveals an often misunderstood Chinese mystical tradition that continued through the ages. Influenced by but ultimately independent of Buddhism, it took forms more various than the quietistic withdrawal of Laozi or the sudden enlightenment of the Chan Buddhists. On the basis of a new theoretical evaluation of mysticism, this study analyzes the relationship between philosophical and religious Taoism and between Buddhism and the native Chinese tradition. Kohn shows how the quietistic and socially oriented Daode jing was combined with the ecstatic and individualistic mysticism of the Zhuangzi, with immortality beliefs and practices, and with Buddhist insight meditation, mind analysis, and doctrines of karma and retribution. She goes on to demonstrate that Chinese mysticism, a complex synthesis by the late Six Dynasties, reached its zenith in the Tang, laying the foundations for later developments in the Song traditions of Inner Alchemy, Chan Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism.
Daoism and Chinese Culture
Daoism and Chinese Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daoism and Chinese Culture write by Livia Kohn. This book was released on 2001. Daoism and Chinese Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A long-awaited textbook that introduces the major schools, teachings, and practices of Daoism, this work presents a chronological survey that is thematically divided into four parts: Ancient Thought, Religious Communities, Spiritual Practices, and Modernity. The work offers an integrated vision of the Daoist tradition in its historical and cultural context, establishing connections with relevant information on Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, popular religion, and political developments. It also places Daoism into a larger theoretical and comparative framework, relating it to mysticism, millenarianism, forms of religious organization, ritual, meditation, and modernity. The book makes ample use of original materials and provides references to further readings and original sources in translation. It is a powerful resource for teaching and studying alike.
Dragon's Play
Dragon's Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dragon's Play write by Charles Belyea. This book was released on 1991. Dragon's Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching
Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching write by Livia Kohn. This book was released on 1998-03-19. Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.
