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Author : Nathan Sivin
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Alchemy: Preliminary Studies written by Nathan Sivin and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Sivin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783717241
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Alchemy written by Nathan Sivin and published by . This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Obed Simon Johnson
Publisher : Martino Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781578986828
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Study of Chinese Alchemy written by Obed Simon Johnson and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Paperback.156p. In China as elsewhere, alchemy is a doctrine aiming to afford an understanding of the principles underlying the formation and functioning of the cosmos. The alchemist overcomes the limits of individuality, and ascends to higher states of being; he becomes, in Chinese terms, a zhenren or Authentic Man. Chinese alchemy went through a complex and not yet entirely understood development along its twenty centuries of documented history. The two main traditions are conventionally known as waidan or "external alchemy" and neidan or "internal alchemy". The bulk of the Chinese alchemical sources is found in the Daozang (Taoist Canon), the largest collection of Taoist texts. The cosmos as we know it is conceived of as the final stage in a series of spontaneous transmutations stemming from original non-existence. This process entails the apparent separation of primeval Unity into the two complementary principles, yin and yang. Their re-union generates the cosmos. When the process is completed, the cosmos is subject to the laws of cosmology. The alchemist's task is to retrace this process backwards. Alchemy, whether "external" or "internal," providessupport to the adept, leading one to the point when, as some texts put it, "Heaven spontaneously reveals its secrets." Its practice must be performed under the close supervision of a master, who provides the "oral instructions" (koujue) necessary to an understanding of the processes that the adept performs with minerals and metals, or undergoes within himself. Modern study of the alchemical literature began in the present century, after the Canon was reprinted and made widely available in 1926. Johnson's work, originally published in 1928, remains one of the full book length treatises in English on the subject.
Author : Fabrizio Pregadio
Publisher : Golden Elixir Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Alchemy written by Fabrizio Pregadio and published by Golden Elixir Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fabrizio Pregadio
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804767734
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Clarity written by Fabrizio Pregadio and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body of doctrines and practices that Daoists built at that time, from which Daoism as we know it today evolved. The book also clarifies the origins of Chinese alchemy and the respective roles of alchemy and meditation in self-cultivation practices. It contains full translations of three important medieval texts, all of them accompanied by running commentaries, making available for the first time in English the gist of the early Chinese alchemical corpus.
Author : Jean Cooper
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609259823
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Alchemy written by Jean Cooper and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in one slender volume is a basic introduction to Chinese alchemy—a tradition that dates back 5,000 years. Chinese alchemy, largely associated with Taoism, has a recorded history of more than 2,000 years, but traditionally it goes back even further to nearly 3000 BC and the time of the Yellow Emperor. While Western alchemy was concerned with the search for spiritual and material gold, classic Taoist alchemy was a mystical quest for immortality with its aim being union with the Absolute. Jean Cooper describes the history and development of Taoist alchemy, compares it to similar traditions in India and Turkistan, and gives it context by contrasting it with the rationale of the Western hermetic tradition. As she writes in her concluding chapter: The whole work of alchemy is summed up in the phrase "To make of the body a spirit and of the spirit a body". . . . The goal of the Taoist alchemist-mystic was transformation, or perhaps more correctly, transfiguration, of the whole body until it ceases to "be" and is absorbed into and becomes the Tao. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese legend and lore, Chinese magic and medicine, and Taoism.
Author : Ho Peng Yoke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134137451
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Explorations in Daoism written by Ho Peng Yoke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts, however many of these texts are undated and anonymous. This book brings together an extraordinary compendium of data on alchemical knowledge in China, describing the methods used for dating important alchemical texts in the Daoist canon.
Author : Obed Simon Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494031183
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Study of Chinese Alchemy written by Obed Simon Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : Jean C. Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850303278
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Alchemy written by Jean C. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521210287
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
