Early Chinese Mysticism (eBook)

Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition

Livia Kohn (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4446-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Absolute • Altruism • Anatta • ancient China • Asceticism • Baopuzi • Being-cognition • Bianhua • Bodhisattva • brain hemispheres • Buddhahood • Buddha-nature • Buddhism • Buddhist Ethics • buddhist texts • celibacy • Chan Buddhism • Chaos • Chengdu • Chen Tuan • Chinese Buddhism • Chinese Culture • Chinese philosophy • cinnabar • Cognition • Confucianism • Confucius • Consciousness • Dark Learning • deity • Divination • Doctrine • drunkenness • Dunhuang manuscripts • equality of all things • Equanimity • Erjiao lun • fangshi • Fasting • Fuqi jingyi lun • Ge Chaofu • Ge Hong • Ge Xuan • Good and evil • Gratitude • Great Ultimate • Guo Xiang • Hagiography • Han dynasty • Huainanzi • Huangting jing • Hundun • ineffability • Jade Emperor • Jizang • Kaltenmark, Maxime • Lao-Zhuang tradition • Laozi • Liezi • Lightness (philosophy) • Lingbao School • Literature • Liu Ling • Longevity • Medicine • Mencius • Monastery • Monasticism • Morality • Mysticism • Nāgārjuna • Ontology • orbs, five • Otherworld • perennial philosophy • Philosopher • Philosophy • Poetry • Pratityasamutpada • pure land • Queen Mother of the West • Qu Yuan • Reality • Reincarnation • Religion • Religious Philosophy • religious text • Rhapsody • Righteousness • Ruan Ji • Scholar-official • scriptures • seclusion • sect • Shamanism • Shuijing zhu • Shujing • Sima Xiangru • Six Dynasties • Skandha • Soteriology • Spirituality • Sun Simiao • Sunyata • Syncretism • Tao Hongjing • Taoism • Taoist schools • Tao-nature • Tao Te Ching • The Other Hand • The Perennial Philosophy • Thought • Traditional Chinese Medicine • Utopia • Value Judgments • veneration • Vipassana • Wang Bi • Wang Qiao • Warring States Period • World View • Worship • Writing • Wu Xing • Xiaodao lun • Yang Zhu • Yellow Emperor • Yin and Yang • Zhenzheng lun • Zhuangzi (book) • Zuowang
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4446-0 / 1400844460
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4446-3 / 9781400844463