The Zhen'gao, or Declarations of the perfected. Volume I, A fourth-century Daoist family / Stephen R. Bokenkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 1949- author.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Taoism--Relations--Buddhism.

Taoism.

Relations.

Buddhism.

Buddhism--Relations--Taoism.

Taoism--Sacred books--History.

Taoism--Sacred books.

History.

Interfaith relations.

Tao, Hongjing, 452-536. Zhen gao.

Tao, Hongjing.

Zhen gao (Tao, Hongjing).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Text in English and Chinese.

Summary:

"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) 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 Declarations's place 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 reconfiguration of Buddhist myth and practice that Yang Xi introduced to his Daoist audience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Contents and Background of the Work

Women and Goddesses

Mediumism in the Declarations

Buddhism in the Declarations

Prior Translations

Conventions of the Translation

Abbreviations

1). Tao Hongjing's Postface (DZ 1016, Chapters 19-20)

Translation: Introducing the Declarations of the Perfected

Translation: Account of the Perfected Scriptures from Beginning to End

Translation: Genealogy of the Perfected Forebears

2). The Poems of Eluhua

Translation: The Poems of Eluhua (DZ 1016, I.Ia-Za)

3). The Sons of Sima Yu

Introduction

Translation: The Sons of Sima Yu

4). "Eight Pages of Lined Text"

a). Introduction to the "Eight Pages of Lined Text"

b). Introduction and Translation: Poems on Dependence and Independence

c). Introduction and Translation: Han Mingdi's Dream

d). 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 Fragments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Tao, Hongjing, 452-536. Zhen gao.

Container of: Tao, Hongjing, 452-536. Zhen gao. English

Other Format:

Online version: Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 1949- A fourth-century daoist family

ISBN:

9780520356269

0520356268

OCLC:

1142938478

Publisher Number:

99986023697