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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Main Author: Enckevort, Paul van (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Sinica Leidensia ; 166.

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Call Number: BL1940.W83

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter 1 History and Religion /
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  • Chapter 2 An Immortal in the Family /
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  • Chapter 3 Writing and Publishing /
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  • Chapter 4 The Way of Immortality /
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  • Chapter 5 A Stairway to Heaven /
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  • Chapter 6 An Inversion of Nature /
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  • Chapter 7 The Return to Emptiness /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Appendix 1 Comparing the Three Editions of the Dialogues and Other Texts /
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  • Appendix 2 Wu Shouyang's Writings: an Annotated Bibliography /
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  • Appendix 3 Research Note on Exemplar 1 /
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  • Appendix 4 Research Note on Exemplar 2 /
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  • Appendix 5 Research Note on Exemplar 3 /
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  • Appendix 6 Research Note on Exemplar 4 /
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  • Appendix 7 Longmen Lineage (Zhang-Li-Cao-Wu) /
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  • Appendix 8 Wu Family /
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  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography /
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