Fourth-Century Daoist Family

The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This volume is the first in a series of full-length English translations from one of the foremost classics in Daoist religious literature, the Zhen gao or Declarations of the Perfected. The Declarations is a collection of poems, accounts of the dead, instructions, and meditation methods received by the Daoist Yang Xi (330–ca. 386 BCE) from celestial beings and shared by him with his patrons and students. These fragments of revealed material were collected and annotated by the eminent scholar and Daoist Tao Hongjing (456–536), allowing us access to these distant worlds and unfamiliar strategies of self-perfection. Bokenkamp's full translation highlights the literary nature of Daoist revelation and the place of the Declarations in the development of Chinese letters. It further details interactions with the Chinese throne and the aristocracy and demonstrates ways that Buddhist borrowings helped shape Daoism much earlier than has been assumed. This first volume also contains heretofore unrecognized reconfigurations of Buddhist myth and practice that Yang Xi introduced to his Daoist audience.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-15
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520356269

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionContents and Background of the WorkWomen and GoddessesMediumism in the DeclarationsBuddhism in the DeclarationsPrior TranslationsConventions of the TranslationAbbreviations1) Tao Hongjing's Postface (DZ 1016, Chapters 19–20) Translation: Introducing the Declarations of the PerfectedTranslation: Account of the Perfected Scriptures from Beginning to EndTranslation: Genealogy of the Perfected Forebears2) The Poems of ElühuaTranslation: The Poems of Elühua (DZ 1016, 1.1a–2a)3) The Sons of Sima Yu IntroductionTranslation: The Sons of Sima Yu4) "Eight Pages of Lined Text"a) Introduction to the "Eight Pages of Lined Text"b) Introduction and Translation: Poems on Dependence and Independencec) Introduction and Translation: Han Mingdi's Dreamd) Introduction and Translation of On Fangzhu e) Introduction and Translation of the Teachings and Admonitions of the Assembled Numinous Powers (= The Scripture in Forty-Two Sections)f) Related FragmentsWorks in the Daoist CanonWorks Cited Index