[PDF.89ao] Wu Yun's Way: Life And Works of an Eighth-century Daoist Master (Sinica Leidensia)

Wu Yun's Way: Life And Works of an Eighth-century Daoist Master (Sinica Leidensia)

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 | #5914169 in Books |  2006-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.60 x1.50 x6.50l,2.35 | File type: PDF | 520 pages

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||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Important Life and Translation of Tang Daoist|By P. Nagy|Excerpt: The Tang dynasty (618-907) stands out as one of the most illustrious periods in the history of Daoism, The Tang saw the integration of the different traditions of Daoism into a complex, hierarchical structure, in which initiation and ordination were linked with the transmission of parts of the Daoist canon. The f|About the Author|Jan De Meyer, Ph.D. (1992) in Sinology, University of Ghent (Belgium), is Lecturer at Leiden University. He has co-edited Linked Faiths. Essays on Chinese Religions & Traditional Culture in Honour of Kristofer Schipper (Brill, 2000

Here is the first booklength study of the life and works of Wu Yun, one of the most remarkable figures of eighth-century Daoism. Blending literary criticism with religious and cultural history, this book assesses the importance of Wu Yun the Daoist priest, the poet, the anti-Buddhist, the defender of reclusion and the philosopher of immortality, and in doing so, sheds new light on the very nature of Tang dynasty Daoism.

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