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Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler sh…
Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler sh…
Daoist Body Cultivation is a comprehensive volume by a group of dedicated scholar-practitioners that covers the key practices of medical healing, breathing techniques, diets and fasting, healing exercises, sexual practices, Qigong, and Taiji quan. Each presentation places the pr…
Introduction -- The Writ in early medieval southern China -- The religious life of objects: the talismans of the Writ and their surviving fragments -- Beyond talismans: alchemy, charts, and meditation in relation to the Writ -- From local lore to universal Dao: the cavern of div…
Hengxian: stages of cosmic unfolding -- Taiyi shengshui: textual structure and conceptual layers -- Fanwu liuxing: from oneness to multiplicity -- Huangdi sijing: governing through oneness -- Laozi: "Dao models itself" -- Laozi: "a great vessel" -- Han Laozi: variants and new re…
Part I. Studies -- Mystics in training: living the Daoist body -- The mystical process: healing and immortality -- The ethical universe: precepts and mystical practice -- Mystical philosophy: theories, logic, and exegesis -- Modes of mystical experience: enstasy versus ecstasy -…
Empowered writing explores the inherent powers of Chinese talismans, petitions, registers, and holy scriptures, presenting a systematic study of their exxorcistic and apotropaic properties. Using a vast arsenal of original sources, the book traces the unfolding and transformatio…
