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To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of GE Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents Volume 2

To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of GE Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents Volume 2 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert F. CampanySeries:Daoist Classics #2Publish date:2002-04-08Pages:633
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520230347ISBN-10:520230345UPC:9780520230347Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Taoism, Asia, BuddhismBook Topic:ChinaSize:9.24 x 6.36 x 1.68 inchesWeight:2.1319Product ID:SCSFPXB8E1
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 thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 c.e.) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality.

Robert Ford Campany's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520230347ISBN-10:520230345UPC:9780520230347Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Taoism, Asia, BuddhismBook Topic:ChinaSize:9.24 x 6.36 x 1.68 inchesWeight:2.1319Product ID:SCSFPXB8E1
Robert Ford Campany is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is coeditor of the Journal of Chinese Religions and author of Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (1996).
Publisher: University of California Press

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