Taoist meditation : the Mao-shan tradition of great purity /

Taoist meditation : the Mao-shan tradition of great purity /

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Author / Creator:Robinet, Isabelle.
Uniform title:Méditation taoïste. English
Imprint:Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1993.
Description:1 online resource (xxix, 285 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Subject:
Meditation -- Taoism.
Meditation -- Taoism.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101349
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ISBN:0585068291
9780585068299
0791413594
0791413608
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.
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Other form:Print version: Robinet, Isabelle. Méditation taoïste. English. Taoist meditation. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1993 0791413594
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations and Figures
  • Translators' Preface
  • Foreword to the English Edition
  • Introduction
  • Chronological Table
  • Chapter 1. General Perspectives
  • I. The Book, Cosmic Creator and the Alliance with the Gods
  • 1. The Ching Reveals the Laws of the World
  • 2. The Ching as the Foundation of the World
  • 3. The Ching: a Token of Power that Certifies and Enlists Divine Protection
  • II. Talismans and Invocations: Summoning the Gods
  • Talismans and Invocations: Fu and Chu
  • III. Auxiliary and Preparatory Exercises
  • IV. The Figure of the Saint and the Spiritual Hierarchy
  • V. The Creative Imagination and the Intermediary World
  • Chapter 2. The Book of the Yellow Court
  • I. General Introduction
  • II. Visualization of the Viscera
  • 1. Interior Vision
  • 2. The Viscera as Living Symbols
  • 3. The T'ai-p'ing ching as Predecessor
  • 4. The Huang-t'ing ching: Viscera in the Book of the Yellow Court
  • 5. The Inheritors and the Therapeutic Tendency
  • 6. The Cosmic Dimension of the Viscera
  • 7. The Center of the Body: The Spleen
  • 8. The Fertile Abysses of the Body
  • The Kidneys and the Lower Cinnabar Field
  • The Gate of Destiny, Ming-men
  • The Origin of the Barrier, Kuan-yüan
  • III. The Circulation of Breath and Essence
  • 1. Breath or Ch'i: Aerial Yang Principle of the Body
  • 2. Essence or Ching: Moist Yin Principle of the Body
  • 3. The Sexual Seed
  • 4. The Nourishing Saliva
  • IV. Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. The Book of Great Profundity
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Gods of the Body
  • III. Unitive Fusion through the Whirlwind
  • 1. Unitive Fusion, Hun-ho
  • 2. The Whirlwind, Hui-feng
  • Chapter 4. The One, "Preserving the One," and the Three-Ones
  • I. Unity: Void, Origin, and Chaos
  • II. Preserving the One, Shou-i
  • III. The Su-ling ching: The Three and the Nine
  • 1. "Preserving the One," and the Three-Ones
  • 2. The Nine Palaces
  • IV. The Tz'u-i ching (Scripture of the Feminine One) and the T'ai-tan yin-shu (Secret Book of the Supreme Cinnabar)
  • 1. Tz'u-i, The Feminine One
  • 2. T'ai-i, The Supreme One
  • Chapter 5. Overcoming Obstacles and the Certainty of the Final Outcome
  • I. The Embryonic Knots
  • II. The Promise of Immortality
  • Chapter 6. The Metamorphoses
  • I. Creative Metamorphoses and the Perpetual Mutations of Life
  • II. The Changing Faces of Truth
  • III. Metamorphoses of the Gods
  • IV. Moving and Wandering
  • V. Magical Metamorphoses and Reproduction
  • VI. Metamorphoses of the Taoists
  • VII. Invisibility: Light and Darkness
  • VIII. Liberating Mutation and Blessed Dissolution
  • Chapter 7. Distant Excursions: Ranging Through the Universe
  • I. Mystical Flights, Fabulous Excursions, and Spiritual Quests
  • II. Cosmic Exhalations, Fresh Sprouts, and Essential Nourishments
  • III. The Penetrating Gaze; Vision of the Poles, Mountains, and Seas; and the Universe's Homage
  • Chapter 8. Flight to the Stars
  • I. The Couple Sun-Moon
  • 1. Meditation Practices: The Sidereal March, Nourishments of Light, and Flight to the Stars
  • 2. The Hierogamic Transposition of Attributes: Alternation and the Coincidence of Opposites
  • 3. The Pivot and the Infinite Center
  • 4. The Bath of Fire and Water; Sovereignty
  • 5. The Nourishment of Light and the Fusion with the Stars
  • II. The Planets and the Bushel
  • 1. Description
  • 2. Meditation Practices: The Mantle of Stars, Heavenly Couch, and the Mesh of the Network
  • 3. The Center Above
  • 4. The Bushel and the Supreme One, T'ai-i
  • 5. The North: Matrix of Transformations
  • 6. The Divided Center: North-South and Death-Life, the Hells, Order and Division
  • 7. The Polar Darkness
  • 8. Gateway and Step; the Dance
  • Afterword to the English Edition
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Texts Cited
  • Glossary of Chinese Terms
  • Glossary of Proper Names
  • Index

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