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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tao, Hongjing, 452-536. Zhen gao.

Tao, Hongjing.

Taoism--Relations--Buddhism.

Taoism.

Buddhism--Relations--Taoism.

Buddhism.

Taoism--Sacred books--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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)

2) The Poems of Elühua

3) The Sons of Sima Yu

4) “Eight Pages of Lined Text”

Works in the Daoist Canon

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

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

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

ISBN:

9780520976030

0520976037

OCLC:

1233041547