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Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.

The Taoist Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

The Taoist Experience

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Containing sixty translations from a large variety of texts, this is an accessible yet thorough introduction to the major concepts, doctrines, and practices of Taoism. It presents the philosophy, rituals, and health techniques of the ancients as well as the practices and ideas of Taoists today. Divided into four sections, it follows the Taoist Path: The Tao, Long Life, Eternal Vision, and Immortality. It shows how the world of the Tao is perceived from within the tradition, what fervent Taoists did, and how practitioners saw their path and goals. The Taoist Experience is unique in that it presents the whole of Taoist tradition in the very words of its active practitioners. It conveys not only a sense of the depth of the Taoist religious experience but also of the underlying unity of the various schools and strands.

Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

The volume investigates the question of meaning of mystical phenomena and, conversely, queries the concept of "meaning" itself, via insights afforded by mystical experiences. The collection brings together researchers from such disparate fields as philosophy, psychology, history of religion, cognitive poetics, and semiotics, in an effort to ascertain the question of mysticism's meaning through pertinent, up-to-date multidisciplinarity. The discussion commences with Editor's Introduction that probes persistent questions of complexity as well as perplexity of mysticism and the reasons why problematizing mysticism leads to even greater enigmas. One thread within the volume provides the contextu...

The World's Great Wisdom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

The World's Great Wisdom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to...

Daoism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Daoism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Daoism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation explores philosophy of religion from a Daoist perspective. Philosophy of religion is a thriving field today, increasingly expanding from its traditional theistic, Christian roots into more cosmologically oriented Asian religions. This book raises a number of different issues on the three levels of cosmos, individual, and society, and addresses key questions like: What are the distinctive characteristics of Daoist thought and cosmology? How does it approach problems of creation, body, mind, and society? What, ultimately, is Dao? How does it manifest and play a role in the world? What are the key features of Daoist communities and ethics? What...

CSSR Directory of Departments and Programs of Religious Studies in North America-1993 Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

CSSR Directory of Departments and Programs of Religious Studies in North America-1993 Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Graduate Studies in Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Graduate Studies in Religion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Offers basic information on graduate programs at schools constituting the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion

Science and the Dao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Science and the Dao

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

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Introducing Daoism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Introducing Daoism

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God of the Dao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

God of the Dao

Lord Lao, first known as the philosopher Laozi, the purported author of the Daode jing, later became an immortal, a messiah, and high god of Daoism. Laozi, divinized during the Han dynasty and in early Daoist movements, reached his highest level of veneration under the Tang when the rulers honored him as a royal ancestor. In subsequent eras he remained prominent and is still a major deity in China today. Livia Kohn's two-part study first traces the historical development of Lord Lao and the roles he played at different times for different believers. Part Two is based on one of Lord Lao's major hagiographies, the twelfth-century Youlong zhuan (Like Unto a Dragon), and studies the complex myth...