04163nam 22006494a 450 991045568800332120210618222337.01-283-27702-697866132770220-520-92760-51-59734-959-310.1525/9780520927605(CKB)111090860415152(EBL)223922(OCoLC)475929306(SSID)ssj0000259784(PQKBManifestationID)11192605(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259784(PQKBWorkID)10188036(PQKB)10378115(MiAaPQ)EBC223922(DE-B1597)519624(OCoLC)55891321(DE-B1597)9780520927605(Au-PeEL)EBL223922(CaPaEBR)ebr10058838(CaONFJC)MIL327702(EXLCZ)9911109086041515220010131d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrTo live as long as heaven and earth[electronic resource] a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents /Robert Ford CampanyBerkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (637 p.)Daoist classics ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23034-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-579) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ILLUSTRATIONS --FOREWORD --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Opening --Ge Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents --The Nature of the Religion Reflected in Ge Hong's Works --Traditions as Hagiography --Text-Critical Matters --Conventions --GROUP A: Earliest-Attested Hagiographies --Group A: Earliest-Attested Fragments --Group B: Early-Attested Hagiographies --Group B: Early-Attested Fragments --Group C: Later-Attested Hagiographies --On the Source Texts and the Temporal Differentiation of Passages --Group A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Hagiographies --Group A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Fragments --Group B: Sources of Early-Attested Hagiographies --Group B: Sources of Early-Attested Hagiographies --Group C: Sources of Later-Attested Hagiographies --Items Attributed to Shenxian zhuan Excluded from This Translation --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXIn 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 Company'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.Daoist classics ;2.TaoistsChinaBiographyElectronic books.Taoists299/.51423Campany Robert Ford1959-1055916Ge Hong284-364.1055917MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455688003321To live as long as heaven and earth2489731UNINA