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Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Louis Komjathy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441139214
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Louis Komjathy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daoism is a global religious and cultural phenomenon characterized by multiculturalism and ethnic diversity. Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed offers a clear and thorough survey of this ancient and modern religious tradition. The book includes an overview of Daoist history, including key individuals and movements, translations of primary Daoist texts, and discussions of key dimensions of Daoist religiosity, covering primary concerns and defining characteristics of the religion. Specifically designed to meet the needs of students and general readers seeking a thorough understanding of the religion, this book is the ideal guide to studying and understanding Daoism as a lived and living religious community.

Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Louis Komjathy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441134689
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Louis Komjathy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daoism is a global religious and cultural phenomenon characterized by multiculturalism and ethnic diversity. Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed offers a clear and thorough survey of this ancient and modern religious tradition. The book includes an overview of Daoist history, including key individuals and movements, translations of primary Daoist texts, and discussions of key dimensions of Daoist religiosity, covering primary concerns and defining characteristics of the religion. Specifically designed to meet the needs of students and general readers seeking a thorough understanding of the religion, this book is the ideal guide to studying and understanding Daoism as a lived and living religious community.

Daoism

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780740158
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Daoism written by James Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From T’ai Chi to the Ming Dynasty, this is an engrossing guide to the elusive Chinese tradition of Daoism. Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to 21st century T’ai Chi and meditation. Complete with a timeline of Daoist history and a full glossary, Daoism: A Beginner's Guide will prove invaluable not only to students, but also to general readers who wish to learn more about the origins and nature of a profound tradition, and about its role and relevance in our fast-moving 21st century existence.

Taming the Wild Horse

Author : Louis Komjathy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543522
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Wild Horse written by Louis Komjathy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually unknown text offers unique insights into the transformative effects of Daoist contemplative practice. Taming the Wild Horse examines Gao's illustrated poems in terms of monasticism and contemplative practice, as well as the multivalent meaning of the "horse" in traditional Chinese culture and the consequences for both human and nonhuman animals. The Horse Taming Pictures consist of twelve poems, ten of which are equine-centered. They develop the metaphor of a "wild" or "untamed" horse to represent ordinary consciousness, which must be reined in and harnessed through sustained self-cultivation, especially meditation. The compositions describe stages on the Daoist contemplative path. Komjathy provides opportunities for reflection on contemplative practice in general and Daoist meditation in particular, which may lead to a transpersonal way of perceiving and being.

The Daode Jing

Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190689846
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Daode Jing written by Livia Kohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daode jing ("Book of the Dao and Its Virtue") is an essential work in both traditional Chinese culture and world philosophy. The oldest text of philosophical Daoism, and widely venerated among religious Daoist practitioners, it was composed around the middle of the 4th century BCE. Ascribed to a thinker named Laozi, a contemporary of Confucius, the work is based on a set of aphorisms designed to help local lords improve their techniques of government. The most translated book after the Bible, the Daode jing appears in numerous variants and remains highly relevant in the modern world. This guide provides an overview of the text, presenting its historical unfolding, its major concepts, and its contemporary use. It also gives some indication of its essence by citing relevant passages and linking them to the religious practices of traditional Daoism.

The Daode Jing

Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190689838
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Daoism Handbook

Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004391843
Total Pages : 955 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Daoism Handbook written by Livia Kohn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism. The chapters are devoted to either specific periods, or topics such as Women in Daoism, Daoism in Korea and Daoist Ritual Music. Each chapter rigidly deals with a fixed set of aspects, such as history, texts, worldview and practices. Clear markings in the chapters themselves and a detailed index make this volume the most accessible key resource on Daoism past and present.

Handbooks for Daoist Practice

Author : Louis Komjathy
Publisher : Square Inch Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Handbooks for Daoist Practice written by Louis Komjathy and published by Square Inch Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth anniversary edition of the classic series of bilingual Chinese-English translations of nine important, representative, and practice-oriented Daoist texts. Volume I includes the general introduction and Handbooks 1-3; volume II consists of Handbooks 4-6; and volume III includes Handbooks 7-9 and the combined bibliography.

Daoism

Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138304949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Daoism written by Livia Kohn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores philosophy of religion from a Daoist perspective. It raises a number of different issues on the three levels of cosmos, individual, and society.

Lieh-Tzu

Author : Eva Wong
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781570626463
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Lieh-Tzu written by Eva Wong and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lieh-tzu is a collection of stories and philosophical musings of a sage of the same name who lived around the fourth century BCE. The subjects of Lieh-tzu's teachings range from the origin and purpose of life, the Taoist view of reality, and the nature of enlightenment to questions about training the body and mind, communication and understanding, and the importance of personal freedom. This distinctive translation presents Lieh-tzu as a friendly, intimate companion speaking directly to the reader in a contemporary voice about life and death, fortune and misfortune, gain and loss, and questions and problems that we want to solve in our everyday lives. Why do things run smoothly for some people and not for others? How can we deal with stress and anxiety in our daily lives? How can we learn more effectively? What brings happiness? Why are there so many problems in our world? By providing answers to these practical questions, Lieh-tzu builds the foundations that are necessary for the higher levels of Taoist training.

Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions

Author : George Pati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000735443
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions written by George Pati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression. Collectively bridging ancient and modern conceptualizations of embodiment in religious practice, the book offers a complex mapping of how body is defined. It revisits more traditional, mystical religious systems, including Hindu Tantra and Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Bon, Chinese Daoism and Persian Sufism and distinctively juxtaposes these inquiries alongside analyses of racial, gendered, and colonized bodies. Such a multifaceted subject requires a diverse approach, and so perspectives from phenomenology and neuroscience as well as critical race theory and feminist theology are utilised to create more precise analytical tools for the scholarly engagement of embodied religious epistemologies. This a nuanced and interdisciplinary exploration of the myriad issues around bodies within religion. As such it will be a key resource for any scholar of Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Gender Studies.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender

Author : Ann A. Pang-White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472569865
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender written by Ann A. Pang-White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender presents a comprehensive overview of the complexity of gender disparity in Chinese thought and culture. Divided into four main sections, an international group of experts in Chinese Studies write on Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist approaches to gender relations. Each section includes a general introduction, a set of authoritative articles written by leading scholars and comprehensive bibliographies, designed to provide the non-specialist with a practical and broad overview. Beginning with the Ancient and Medieval period before moving on to Modern and Contemporary approaches, specially commissioned chapters include Pre-Qin canonical texts, women in early Chinese ethics, the yin-yang gender dynamic and the Buddhist understanding of the conception of gender. Considering why the philosophy of women and gender dynamics in Chinese thought is rarely confronted, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender is a pioneering cross-disciplinary introduction to Chinese philosophy's intersection with gender studies. By bridging the fields of Chinese philosophy, religion, intellectual history, feminism, and gender studies, this cutting-edge volume fills a great need in the current literature on Chinese philosophy and provides student and scholars with an invaluable research resource to a growing field.

Historical Dictionary of Daoism

Author : Ronnie L. Littlejohn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153812274X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Daoism written by Ronnie L. Littlejohn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daoism is the oldest indigenous philosophic-spiritual tradition of China and one of the most ancient of the world’s spiritual structures. The name Daoism comes from the term dao, which meansa “way” or a “road” through the field or woods to one’s village. It is also means the “way” to do something, such as how a master craftsman carves wood, makes a bell, or even butchers an ox. But dao is also a nominative in the history of Daoism, referring to the energizing process that permeates and animates all of reality and moves it along. However, both text and practice in this tradition insist that dao itself cannot be described in words; itis not God in the sense of Western philosophy or religion. Daoism has no supreme being, even if there is an extensive grammar about nominally self-conscious entities and powers for which the Chinese use the word “spirit” (shen). For example, the highest powers of Daoism are variously called Taishang Laojun (the deified Laozi), the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning (Yuanshi tianzun), the Jade Emperor (Yuhuang Shangdi), or the Perfected Warrior (Zhenwu). But these are expressions of dao in specific shen; they are not identical to Dao, except in the most unique case—when Laozi, the putative founder of Daoism and author of its major work, Daodejing, is said to be one with the dao. Historical Dictionary of Daoism contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 400 cross-referenced entries related to the Chinese belief and worldview known as Daoism, including dozens of Daoist terms, names, and practices. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Daoism.

Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

Author : Suzanne Newcombe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351050737
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies written by Suzanne Newcombe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Chapters 1, 4, 9, 12, and 27 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The Oxford Handbook of Meditation

Author : Miguel Farias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019880864X
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Meditation written by Miguel Farias and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Digging Your Own Well: Daoism as a Practical Philosophy

Author : Bill Hulet
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0993839533
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Digging Your Own Well: Daoism as a Practical Philosophy written by Bill Hulet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever called yourself "spiritual, but not religious"?, ever read the Tao Te Ching?, interested in martial arts?, want to live in harmony with nature?, or, do you think that something is fundamentally wrong with our civilization?---this might be the book for you. "Digging Your Own Well" is the result of a 30 year effort of integrating the ancient Chinese wisdom philosophy of Daoism with modern life. No New Age "wooo", just practical suggestions about how to make sense of the 21st century.

Traces of a Daoist Immortal

Author : Louis Komjathy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694897
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Traces of a Daoist Immortal written by Louis Komjathy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces of a Daoist Immortal is a Daoist-infused tour de force on the Daoist mountain hermit Chén Tuán 陳摶 (Xīyí 希夷 [Infinitesimal Subtlety]; d. 989) and his fellow “hidden immortals.” Breaking various academic taboos, including hyper-historicism, social constructivism, and conformist mentalities, here Komjathy, in an aspirational gesture towards unbridled inquiry, offers annotated translations and scholarly introductions to ten major works associated with the Daoist immortal. The book also contains a cutting-edge, mythopoetic introduction that addresses the life and legend of Chén Tuán, his connection to the Western Marchmount of Huàshān 華山 (Mount Hua; Huàyīn, Shǎnxī), Daoist views about sleeping, dreaming, waking, as well as Daoist time-being.