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Taoism and self knowledge : the chart for the cultivation of perfection (Xiuzhen tu)

Despeux, Catherine, author, Pettit, J. E. E., translator

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Xiuzhen tu. / Taoism and science. / Human body Religious aspects Taoism. / Alchemy Religious aspects Taoism. / Human anatomy Atlases.
• ISBN: 9789004322158

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BL1942.85.S35 D4713 2018	1	P_MAP	AUTOSTORE