LEADER 04457oam 22008054a 450 001 996248062103316 005 20211004152528.0 010 $a0-691-07381-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844463 035 $a(CKB)2670000000416111 035 $a(MH)002154736-X 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6340820 035 $a(DE-B1597)570999 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844463 035 $a(OCoLC)1273306859 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_77849 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000416111 100 $a20130118d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEarly Chinese Mysticism$ePhilosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition /$fLivia Kohn 205 $a[Pbk. ed.]. 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d1992. 210 4$dİ1992. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 218 p. ) 311 $a1-4008-4446-0 311 $a0-691-02065-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [193]-210) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Mysticism: The Chinese Case --$tMysticism: Experience, Practice, and Philosophy --$tThe Foundations of Chinese Mysticism --$tDevelopments in Commentary Literature --$tThe Immortalization of Philosophical Taoism --$tEcstatic Explorations of the Otherworld --$tThe Impact of Buddhism --$tThe Tang Synthesis --$tConclusion: Early Chinese Mysticism: An Evaluation. 330 1 $a"Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture? This first integrated survey of the mystical dimension of Taoism disputes the commonly accepted idea of such a hiatus. Covering the period from the Daode jing to the end of the Tang, Livia Kohn reveals an often misunderstood Chinese mystical tradition that continued through the ages. Influenced by but ultimately independent of Buddhism, it took forms more various than the quietistic withdrawal of Laozi or the sudden enlightenment of the Chan Buddhists." "On the basis of a new theoretical evaluation of mysticism, this study analyzes the relationship between philosophical and religious Taoism and between Buddhism and the native Chinese tradition. Kohn shows how the quietistic and socially oriented Daode jing was combined with the ecstatic and individualistic mysticism of the Zhuangzi, with immortality beliefs and practices, and with Buddhist insight meditation, mind analysis, and doctrines of karma and retribution. She goes on to demonstrate that Chinese mysticism, a complex synthesis by the late Six Dynasties, reached its zenith in the Tang, laying the foundations for later developments in the Song traditions of Inner Alchemy, Chan Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism. Book jacket."--Jacket. 606 $aTaoist philosophy$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01754627 606 $aTaoism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01142920 606 $aReligion$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01093763 606 $aMysticism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01031629 606 $aInterfaith relations$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01353343 606 $aBuddhism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00840028 606 $aMysticism$xTaoism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst02025097 606 $aSalvation$xTaoism 606 $aTaoism$xRelations$xBuddhism 606 $aMysticism$zChina$xHistory 606 $aMysticism$xTaoism 606 $aTaoist philosophy 607 $aChina$2fast 607 $aChina$xReligion 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTaoist philosophy. 615 0$aTaoism. 615 0$aReligion. 615 0$aMysticism. 615 0$aInterfaith relations. 615 0$aBuddhism. 615 0$aMysticism$xTaoism. 615 0$aSalvation$xTaoism. 615 0$aTaoism$xRelations$xBuddhism. 615 0$aMysticism$xHistory. 615 0$aMysticism$xTaoism. 615 0$aTaoist philosophy. 676 $a299.51442209 700 $aKohn$b Livia$f1956-$0885845 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248062103316 996 $aEarly Chinese mysticism$92346299 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress