Taoism and Self Knowledge
The Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection
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Word Count
74,250 words, Guess
Page Count
297 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL38042466M
- ISBN-139789004322158
- OCLC Control Number1043574225
- OCLC Control Number1083307306
- Library of Congress Control Number2018047060
Classifications
- LCCBL1942.85.S35D4713
Description
"Catherine Despeux's book is a study of the Internal Alchemical text "Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection." It begins with an analysis of pictographic and symbolic representation of the body in early Taoism after which the author examines different extant versions of the "Chart" as it was transmitted among Quanzhen groups in the Qing dynasty. The book is comprised of four main parts: the principal parts of the body and their nomenclature in Internal Alchemy, the spirits in the human body, and the alchemical processes and procedures used in thunder rituals and self-cultivation. This is a revised, expanded edition of the original French edition Taoïsme et connaissance de soi. La carte de la culture de la perfection (Xiuzhen tu) Paris, 2012"--
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