The scripture on great peace : the Taiping jing and the beginnings of Daoism / [translated by] Barbara Hendrischke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrischke, Barbara, Author.

Contributor:

Hendrischke, Barbara, 1940-

Series:

Daoist classics ; 3.

Daoist classics series ; 3

Standardized Title:

Tai ping jing. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tai ping jing.

Taoism--Early works to 1800.

Taoism.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Taiping jing and the beginning of Daoism

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This first Western-language translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or "Scripture on Great Peace," documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism's origins. Barbara Hendrischke, a leading expert on the Taiping jing in the West, has spent twenty-five years on this magisterial translation, which includes notes that contextualize the scripture's political and religious significance. Virtually unknown to scholars until the 1970's, the Taiping jing raises the hope for salvation in a practical manner by instructing men and women how to appease heaven and satisfy earth and thereby reverse the fate that thousands of years of human wrongdoing has brought about. The scripture stems from the beginnings of the Daoist religious movement, when ideas contained in the ancient Laozi were spread with missionary fervor among the population at large. The Taiping jing demonstrates how early Chinese medieval thought arose from the breakdown of the old imperial order and replaced it with a vision of a new, more diverse and fair society that would integrate outsiders-in particular women and people of a non-Chinese background.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Conventions

Introduction

Notes

Section 41. How to Distinguish between Poor and Rich

Section 42. One Man and Two Women

Section 43. How to Promote the Good and Halt the Wicked

Section 44. How to Preserve the Three Essentials

Section 45. The Three Needs and the Method of [Dealing with] Auspicious and Ominous Events

Section 46. You Must Not Serve the Dead More Than the Living

Section 47. How to Verify the Trustworthiness of Texts and Writings

Section 48. An Explanation of the Reception and Transmission [of Evil] in Five Situations

Section 50. An Explanation of the Master's Declaration

Section 51. The True Contract

Section 52. How to Work Hard to Do Good

Section 53. How to Distinguish between Root and Branches

Section 54. How to Enjoy Giving Life Wins Favor with Heaven

Section 55. How to Classify Old Texts and Give a Title to the Book

Section 56. How the Nine Groups of Men Disperse Calamities Inherited from Former Kings

Section 57. How to Examine What Is True and What Is False Dao

Section 58. On the Four Ways of Conduct and on [the Relationship between] Root and Branches

Section 59. Big and Small Reproaches

Section 60. How Books Illustrate [Rule by] Punishment and [by] Virtue

Section 61. On Digging Up Soil and Publishing Books

Section 62. Dao is Priceless and Overcomes Yi and Di Barbarians

Section 63. Officials, Sons, and Disciples of Outstanding Goodness Find Ways for Their Lord, Father, and Master to Become Transcendent

Section 64. How to Subdue Others by Means of Dao and Not by Means of Severity

Section 65. Threefold Cooperation and Interaction

Section 66. On the Need to Study What Is True

Appendix: The Composition of the TPJ

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Translated from the Chinese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611752453

9781281752451

1281752452

9780520932920

0520932927

9781433701375

1433701375

OCLC:

568026810