LEADER 04126nam 22006494a 450 001 9910827886603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-27702-6 010 $a9786613277022 010 $a0-520-92760-5 010 $a1-59734-959-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520927605 035 $a(CKB)111090860415152 035 $a(EBL)223922 035 $a(OCoLC)475929306 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259784 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192605 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259784 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188036 035 $a(PQKB)10378115 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223922 035 $a(DE-B1597)519624 035 $a(OCoLC)55891321 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520927605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223922 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058838 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327702 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090860415152 100 $a20010131d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTo live as long as heaven and earth $ea translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents /$fRobert Ford Campany 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (637 p.) 225 1 $aDaoist classics ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23034-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 553-579) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tFOREWORD --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tOpening --$tGe Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents --$tThe Nature of the Religion Reflected in Ge Hong's Works --$tTraditions as Hagiography --$tText-Critical Matters --$tConventions --$tGROUP A: Earliest-Attested Hagiographies --$tGroup A: Earliest-Attested Fragments --$tGroup B: Early-Attested Hagiographies --$tGroup B: Early-Attested Fragments --$tGroup C: Later-Attested Hagiographies --$tOn the Source Texts and the Temporal Differentiation of Passages --$tGroup A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Hagiographies --$tGroup A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Fragments --$tGroup B: Sources of Early-Attested Hagiographies --$tGroup B: Sources of Early-Attested Hagiographies --$tGroup C: Sources of Later-Attested Hagiographies --$tItems Attributed to Shenxian zhuan Excluded from This Translation --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aIn late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 C.E..) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Company's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right. 410 0$aDaoist classics ;$v2. 606 $aTaoists$zChina$vBiography 615 0$aTaoists 676 $a299/.51423 700 $aCampany$b Robert Ford$f1959-$01610075 701 2$aGe$b Hong$f284-364.$01610076 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827886603321 996 $aTo live as long as heaven and earth$93937645 997 $aUNINA