《Great Clarity》

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作者: Fabrizio Pregadio
出版社: Stanford University Press
副标题: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China
出版年: 2006-2-27
页数: 392
定价: USD 67.50
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780804751773

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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 ...

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

"Pregadio has chosen this multifaceted term [Great Clarity/Taiqing] to label the earliest alchemist tradition, which is the focus of this superb study. With this publication, Pregadio has proven himself to be the leading scholar of early alchemy in China."—Journal of Chinese Religions

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Guest Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Technische University Berlin

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List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Conventions
Preface
Introduction
Part One: THE HEAVEN OF GREAT CLARITY AND ITS REVELATIONS
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List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Conventions
Preface
Introduction
Part One: THE HEAVEN OF GREAT CLARITY AND ITS REVELATIONS
1 The Early History of Chinese Alchemy and the Way of the Great Clarity
2 The Heaven of Great Clarity
3 The Great Clarity Corpus
Part Two: THE ELIXIRS OF THE GREAT CLARITY
4 The Crucible and the Elixir
5 The Ritual Sequence
6 The Medicines of Great Clarity
Part Three: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CLARITY
7 Gods, Demons, and Elixirs: Alchemy in Fourth-Century Jiangnan
8 The Way of the Great Clarity and Daoism in the Six Dynasties
Part Four: TEXTS OF THE GREAT CLARITY
9 Scripture of The Nine Elixirs
10 Scripture of the Golden Liquor
11 Scripture of the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles
Part Five: THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT CLARITY
12 The Later History of Chinese Alchemy and the Decline of the Great Clarity
Appendixes
A Dates of Texts in the Waidan Corpus
B Additional Notes on Great Clarity and Related Texts
C Additional Notes on the Commentary to the Scripture of the Nine Elixirs
Notes
Glossary
Works Quoted
Index
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