Taoism : the enduring tradition

Taoism : the enduring tradition / Russell Kirkland ; foreword by Norman J. Girardot.

"Taoism: The Enduring Tradition offers fresh perspectives on a religious and cultural tradition which has unfolded since the fifth century as a form of integration into the unseen realities of life. Exploring Taoist voices in sacred texts and current scholarship, and showing how Taoism differs...

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Main Author: Kirkland, Russell, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.
Subjects:
Taoism.
RELIGION > Taoism.
Taoism
Taoïsme.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Understanding Taoism
  • Realities, constructs, and hermeneutical challenges
  • What "Taoism" is : fact, tradition, and self-identification
  • The data-set of "Taoism" : a taxonomic approach
  • 2. The classical legacy
  • Taoism and "the hundred schools"
  • The "useless words" of Chuang Chou
  • Cultivating life's subtle forces : the Nei-yeh
  • From "the elders" of Ch'u to the Chi-hsia academy : the Tao te ching
  • What Taoists inherited from classical texts
  • 3. The course of the Taoist tradition
  • Wellsprings : the Han dynasty
  • Southerly currents
  • Northerly currents
  • The high-water mark : the T'ang dynasty
  • The damming of the Tao?
  • Old currents, new channels
  • Life in the tideways
  • 4. The socio-political matrix of Taoism
  • "Literati Taoism "
  • Women in Taoism : data, interpretation, and issues
  • Women in Taoist history
  • Taoists and dynasts
  • 5. The cultivate life
  • Life, death, and "transcendence"
  • "Cultivating reality"
  • Conclusion.

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