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Taoism

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  • Illustrated Introduction To Taosim:by Jean C. Cooper

    World Wisdom 2010; US$ 9.99

    Containing 118 stunning color illustrations, this beautiful book provides an introduction to Taoism, one of the great religious and philosophical movements in Chinese thought. Incorporating selections from J.C. Cooper?s writings, it explores the concept of the Tao (Way), the symbolism of Yin-Yang, and the thought of the leading Taoist sages. Also included... more...

  • Taoismby Zhongjian Mou

    BRILL 2012; US$ 182.00

    Religious Studies in Contemporary China Collection, Taoism gathers together English translations of seventeen articles originally published in the People?s Republic of China between 1947 and 2006, and republished together in 2008 as part of an edited volume of representative works in PRC Taoist studies. more...

  • Taoby Alan Watts

    Souvenir Press 2010; US$ 17.50

    The Tao is the way of man's cooperation with the natural course of the natural world, its principles can be found in the flow patterns of water. Alan Watts captures the Spirit of the Tao, the actual experience of that attitude to life. The ancient and timeless Chinese wisdom is medicine for the ills of the West but it cannot be taken as medicine but... more...

  • Die neue Wissenschaft über die gemeinschaftliche Natur der Völkerby Giambattista Vico; Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann; Erich Auerbach

    De Gruyter 2000; US$ 70.00

    Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most original and idiosyncratic philosophers before Kant and Hegel. Although Giorgio Vasari had already diagnosed a cycle of rise, blossoming and decline in the history of art, Vico was the first to base this on a philosophical system. Isolated in Naples from direct contact with the philosophical life of... more...

  • The Gold Pavilionby Michael Saso

    Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 17.95

    The Gold Pavilion: Taoist Ways to Peace, Health, and Long Life is a step-by-step description of a way of Taoist meditation from ancient China. This book proposes a way to find inner peace and wholeness in a world with little time for quiet contemplation. more...

  • The Valley Spiritby Lindsey Wei

    Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2013; US$ 19.95

    Lindsey Wei, a young American-Chinese woman, is drawn to the Wudang Mountains on a quest to understand her ancestral roots and discover the hidden knowledge of Daoist martial arts and spiritual wisdom. This book follows her journey with Li Shi Fu, a hermetic Daoist recluse, as she establishes herself as a worthy disciple of the internal arts. more...

  • The Daoist Traditionby Louis Komjathy

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 35.99

    Using a historical, textual and ethnographic approach, this is the most comprehensive presentation of Daoism to date. In addition to revealing the historical contours and primary concerns of Chinese Daoists and Daoist communities, The Daoist Tradition provides an account of key themes and defining characteristics of Daoist religiosity, revealing Daoism... more...

  • The Tao of the Westby J.J. Clarke

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 43.95

    In this book, J.J. Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas, and practices have been assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. We see how Chinese thinkers such as Lao-tzu and Chuang tzu, along with practices such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi, have been used as a key Western inspiration in religion, philosophy, ethics, politics, ecology... more...

  • Daoism in Historyby Benjamin Penny

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95

    Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in the study of Daoism especially in Japan, China and the West, with a new generation of scholars broadening our understanding of the religion. Including contributions from the foremost scholars in the field,  Daoism in History  presents new and important research. These essays honour one of... more...

  • To Live As Long As Heaven and Earthby Robert Ford Campany; Hong Ge

    University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95

    In 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. more...