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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
Awduron Eraill: Ge, Hong, 284-364
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2002.
Cyfres:Daoist classics ; 2.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbmw