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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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Sinica Leidensia ;
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Call Number: BL1940.W83
- 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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