The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fabrizio Pregadio (Editor), Isabelle RobinetPublish date:2011-07-29Pages:140
Language:EnglishPublisher:Golden Elixir PressISBN-13:9780984308262ISBN-10:984308261UPC:9780984308262Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:TaoismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCSFMDFRP9
The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy
This book contains four essays on Internal Alchemy (Neidan) by Isabelle Robinet, originally published in French and translated here for the first time into English. The essays are concerned with the alchemical principle of "inversion"; the devices used by the alchemists to "give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao"; the symbolic function of numbers...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Golden Elixir PressISBN-13:9780984308262ISBN-10:984308261UPC:9780984308262Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:TaoismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCSFMDFRP9
Isabelle Robinet (1932-2000) was one of the most important Western scholars of Taoism. Her work dealt with several major topics: the Laozi and the Zhuangzi with their commentaies; the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) school of Taoism; Neidan (Internal Alchemy); and Taoist thought and cosmology. Her publications in English include Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity (1993) and...
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