To live as long as heaven and earth : a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents /

In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th...

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書誌詳細
第一著者: Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
その他の著者: Ge, Hong, 284-364
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2002.
シリーズ:Daoist classics ; 2.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbmw
目次:
  • ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Opening; Ge Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents; Traditions as Hagiography; Text-Critical Matters; Conventions; Group A: Earliest-Attested Fragments; Group B: Early-Attested Hagiographies; Group B: Early-Attested Fragments; Group C: Later-Attested Hagiographies; On the Source Texts and the Temporal Differentiation of Passages; Items Attributed to Shenxian zhuan Excluded from This Translation; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.