| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Modes of mutation: restructuring the energy body / Livia Kohn -- Internal landscapes / Sara Elaine Neswald -- History and early lineages / Guangbao Zhang -- The southern school: cultivating mind and inner nature / Xichen Lu -- Neidan methods for opening the gate of heaven / Stephen Eskildsen -- Summoning the thunder generals: internal alchemy in the thunder rites / Shinyi Chao -- Numinous father and holy mother: late-Ming duo-cultivation practice / Xun Liu -- Female alchemy : an introduction / Elena Valussi -- To become a female Daoist master: kundao in training / Robin Wang -- Neidan in America / Michael Winn -- On being moved: Kundalini and the complete maturation of the spiritual body / Stuart Sovatsky -- Western parallels: the esoteric teachings of Hermeticism / Althea Northage-Orr |
| Summary |
Internal alchemy has been the dominant system of Daoist spiritual practice since the Song dynasty. Its practitioners transform body energies into subtle levels of spirit and pure cosmic being, hoping to find illumination by returning to the fundamental order of the cosmos and in the process reconcile physiological training with intellectual speculation. Bringing together the best work of leading scholars in the field, this book provides a thorough and easily accessible introduction to this important tradition. It describes the cultivation methods at the root of internal alchemy, presents its h |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2019) |
| Subject |
Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Taoism.
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Taoism -- Customs and practices
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Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Taoism
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Taoism -- Customs and practices
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kohn, Livia, 1956- editor.
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Wang, Robin R., editor
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| ISBN |
9781365556098 |
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1365556093 |
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