Daoism: An Introduction
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1. Verfasser: Littlejohn, Ronnie 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London I.B.Tauris 2009
Schriftenreihe:I.B. Tauris introductions to religion
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Map of Important Daoist sites in China; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Preliminary Considerations and Conventions; Chapter I: Telling the Story of Daoism; Chapter II: The Sprouting of the Trunk of Daoism; Chapter III: The Composite Trunk of Daoism; Chapter IV The Masters Who Nurtured the Trunk of Daoism; Chapter V: Growth of the Daoist Vine During the Qin and Han Dynasties; Chapter VI: The Earliest Branches of Daoism; Chapter VII: The Spread of Celestial Masters'' Daoism; Chapter VIII: New Vines and the Masters Who Began Them; Chapter IX: Daoism in the Tang: Robust Maturity of the Vine
Chapter X: Scrambling and Overlapping Vines and Stems of Daoism in the Song and YuanChapter XI: Daoism Overgrows Chinese Culture: The Ming and Qing Dynasties; Chapter XII: Spreading the Daoist Vine at Home and Abroad; A Quick Guide to Pronunciation; Glossary of Titles; Glossary of Names and Terms; Illustration, Map and Picture Credits; Notes; Works Cited; Index
'The way that can be told is not the eternal Way; the name that can be named is not the eternal Name.' So begins the first verse of the mysterious Dao De Jing, foundation text of the ancient Chinese religion of Daoism. Often attributed to semi-mythical sage Laozi, the origins of this enigmatic document - which probably came into being in the third century BCE - are actually unknown. But the tenets of Daoism laid down in it, and in later texts like the Yi Jing (or 'Book of Changes') and Zhuangzi, continue to exert considerable fascination, particularly in the West, where in recent years they ha
Includes bibliographical references and index
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