A Stairway to Heaven: Daoist Self-Cultivation in Early Modern China /
By the eleventh century, communities of religious practitioners in China had developed a theory and practice of meditative self-cultivation that combined the so-called Three Teachings. By the seventeenth century, Wu Shouyang created a synthesis of the various lineages of this "inner alchemy,&qu...
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Sinica Leidensia ;
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Call Number: BL1940.W83
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 1 History and Religion / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 2 An Immortal in the Family / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 3 Writing and Publishing / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 4 The Way of Immortality / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 5 A Stairway to Heaven / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 6 An Inversion of Nature / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Chapter 7 The Return to Emptiness / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Conclusion / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 1 Comparing the Three Editions of the Dialogues and Other Texts / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 2 Wu Shouyang's Writings: an Annotated Bibliography / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 3 Research Note on Exemplar 1 / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 4 Research Note on Exemplar 2 / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 5 Research Note on Exemplar 3 / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 6 Research Note on Exemplar 4 / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 7 Longmen Lineage (Zhang-Li-Cao-Wu) / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Appendix 8 Wu Family / |r Paul van Enckevort -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / |r Paul van Enckevort. | |
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