The Book of Lieh-tzu
Author | : Liezi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231072373 |
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Author | : Liezi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231072373 |
-- Burton Watson
Author | : Liezi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Taoism |
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Author | : Harold David Roth |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780231115643 |
Presents a translation and commentary to the oldest known extant Taoist text, Inward Training (Nei-yeh), which is composed of short poetic verses devoted to the practice of breath meditation and its resultant insights about human nature and the cosmos. Roth argues that Inward Training is the basis of early Taoism, and suggests that there may be more continuity between early philosophical Taoism and later Taoist religion than scholars have thought.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1990-03-02 |
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ISBN | : 9780231931465 |
Author | : Zhuangzi |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780811201032 |
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
Author | : Tzu Chuang |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2000-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780824820381 |
In this vivid, contemporary translation, Victor Mair captures the quintessential life and spirit of Chuang Tzu while remaining faithful to the original text.
Author | : Liezi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Taoism |
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Author | : Eva Wong |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1590308824 |
A leading scholar feng shui master presents the great depth and diversity of Taoist philosophy, practices, and history in this accessible manual to the oft-misunderstood spiritual tradition. Millions of readers have come to the philosophy of Taoism thanks to the classics Tao Te Ching and the I Ching, or through the practices of t'ai chi and feng-shui, but the Tao is less known for its unique traditions of meditation, physical training, magical practice, and internal alchemy. Eva Wong, a leading Taoist practitioner and translator, provides a solid introduction to the Way. All of Taoism’s most important texts, figures, and events are covered, as well as its extraordinarily rich history and remarkable variety of practice. Sections include: • The History of Taoism traces the development of the tradition from the shamans of prehistoric China through the classical period (including the teachings of the famous sage Lao-tzu), the beginnings of Taoism as a religion, the rise of mystical and alchemical Taoism, and the synthesis of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. • Systems of Taoism explores magical sects, divination practices, devotional ceremonies, internal alchemy, and the way of right action. • Taoist Practices discusses meditation, techniques of cultivating the body, and rites of purification, ceremony, and talismanic magic. This roadmap to the spiritual landscape of Taoism not only introduces the important events in the history of Taoism, the sages who wrote the Taoist texts, and the various schools of Taoist thinking, but also gives readers a feel for what it means to practice Taoism today. A comprehensive bibliography for further study completes this valuable reference work.
Author | : Robert Elliott Allinson |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780887069673 |
This book offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the philosophy of the Chuang-Tzu. It is the first full-length work of its kind which argues that a deep level cognitive structure exists beneath an otherwise random collection of literary anecdotes, cryptic sayings, and dark allusions. The author carefully analyzes myths, legends, monstrous characters, paradoxes, parables and linguistic puzzles as strategically placed techniques for systematically tapping and channeling the spiritual dimensions of the mind. Allinson takes issue with commentators who have treated the Chuang-Tzu as a minor foray into relativism. Chapter titles are re-translated, textual fragments are relocated, and inauthentic, outer miscellaneous chapters are carefully separated from the transformatory message of the authentic, inner chapters. Each of the inner chapters is shown to be a building block to the next so that they can only be understood as forming a developmental sequence. In the end, the reader is presented with a clear, consistent and coherent view of the Chuang-Tzu that is more in accord with its stature as a major philosophical work.
Author | : Lee Sun Chen Org |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 158348390X |
The book Lao Tzu (aka Tao Te Ching ) is a book originated in the sixth century BCE in China. Unlike most writings of that time, it embodies an intgrated work of philosophy. Furthermore, it encompasses themes on religion, political science, social science and traditional thoughts(e.g. I Ching) before Lao Tzu. All the original Taoism created by Lao Tzu are manifested in a simple book of about five thousand Chinese characters. From a modern prospective his profound thought is expressed in compressed expressions. Even Confucius, like numerous Chinese, treated sayings of Lao Tzu as adages. Hardly any punctilious Chinese intellectual, including antagonists of this book, could argue successfully that the whole text does not deserved to be painstakingly examined. For example, the famous aphorism “A journey of one thousand miles started out from one single step” was initially in this book. This translation and introduction of Tao Te Ching was aimed to be both philosophically and linguistically closest to the original Tao of Taoism. The Chinese version of this English book will shortly be published by People’s Press as well. Sir Karl Popper, the author of Open Society and Its Enemies, has strongly recommended the translator of this version. When the first attempt on translation was made in 1985 Sir Alfred J. Ayer commented “Your work on Lao Tzu promises to be very interesting”.