Name: The Taoist Body (en Inglés)
SKU: 2548568
Price: 42.21 USD
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Author: Kristofer Schipper
ISBN: 9780520082243

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Kristofer Schipper

Año

1994

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.10

ISBN

0520082249

ISBN13

9780520082243

N° edición

Categorías

China
Historia de asia

The Taoist Body (en Inglés)

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The ancient system of thought known as Taoism remains today the least well known of the world's great religions and one of the most inaccessible aspects of Chinese culture. This is in large part because Western thought clings to the notion of the separation of matter and spirit, body and soul. Taoism refuses this dualism and considers the body's perfection as essential as the soul's redemption is to Christianity. Kristofer Schipper's elegant and lucid introduction to the traditions of Taoism and the masters who transmit them will reward all those interested in China and in religions. The result of over twenty-five years of research, including eight years of fieldwork in China, Schipper's book retraces, step by step, the way that leads from Chinese shamanism and traditional village life to the physical Tending Life techniques, which in turn lead to the mysticism of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Schipper shows the fundamental unity underlying all aspects of Taoism as Taoism considers itself to be. The social body - the community, the village, the land - corresponds in all aspects to the physical body in Taoism. In both of them the survival of humanity is decided here and now. 'My destiny is within me, not in Heaven!'