The Taoist Classics Volume One

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570629064
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taoist Classics, Volume Two written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of translated texts includes: • Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic: A tenth-century text on the principles of inner alchemy. • The Inner Teachings of Taoism: The essentials of self-transformation according to the Complete Reality School of Taoism, with commentary by Liu I-ming. • The Book of Balance and Harmony: These essays, conversations, poetry, and songs about the secrets of Taoism teach how to live a centered and orderly life. • Practical Taoism: A collection of the most accessible of the texts on inner alchemy.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570629080
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taoist Classics, Volume Four written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Taoist texts includes: • The Taoist I Ching: The classic "Book of Change" illuminated by the commentary of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Taoist adept Liu I-ming. The first part of the book is the text of I Ching proper with Liu's commentary. The second part is Liu's commentary on two additional sections—known as the Overall Image and the Mixed Hexagrams—added to the I Ching by earlier commentators, believed to be members of the original Confucian school. In total, the book illuminates the Taoist inner teachings as practiced in the School of Complete Reality. • I Ching Mandalas: A traditional program of study that enables students of the I Ching to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning of this great classic. I Ching Mandalas presents diagrams as tools for whole-brain learning that help the student to visualize patterns and interrelationships among the trigrams and hexagrams of the I Ching.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1570629056
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taoist Classics, Volume One written by Thomas Cleary and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of translated texts includes: • Tao Te Ching: Cleary's original translations of the great classic of Taoism, accompanied by his commentary illuminating the text and its context. • Chuang-tzu: The "Inner Teachings" of a widely influential compendium of wisdom stories, fables, and anecdotes. • Wen-tzu: Understanding the Mysteries: Another core text of Chinese Taoism, containing teachings also attributed to the author of the Tao Te Ching. • The Book of Leadership and Strategy: Lessons of the Chinese Masters: One of the great Chinese teachings on the subtle arts of management and leadership at all levels. • Sex, Health, and Long Life: Manuals of Taoist Practice: The techniques contained in these five texts reveal the transformative influence sex can have when wisely practiced.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570625862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taoist Classics written by Thomas Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2000-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set neatly packages together a wealth of Taoist texts that have been translated and published by Thomas Cleary over the course of more than twenty years. Among the fifteen translated texts included in these volumes are the Tao Teh Ching, Chuang-tzu, The Book of Balance and Harmony, The Taoist I Ching, Immortal Sisters, Awakening to the Tao, and more.

Author : Lui I-ming
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834825481
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taoist I Ching written by Lui I-ming and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The I Ching , or "Book of Change," is considered the oldest of the Chinese classics and has throughout history commanded unsurpassed prestige and popularity. Containing several layers of text and given numerous levels of interpretation, it has captured continuous attention for well over two thousand years. It has been considered a book of fundamental principles by philosophers, politicians, mystics, alchemists, yogins, diviners, sorcerers, and more recently by scientists and mathematicians. This first part of the present volume is the text of the I Ching proper—the sixty-four hexagrams plus sayings on the hexagrams and their lines—with the commentary composed by Liu I-ming, a Taoist adept, in 1796. The second part is Liu I-ming's commentary on the two sections added to the I Ching by earlier commentators, believed to be members of the original Confucian school; these two sections are known as the Overall Images and the Mixed Hexagrams. In total, the book illuminates the Taoist inner teachings as practiced in the School of Complete Reality. Well versed in Buddhism and Confucianism as well as Taoism, Liu I-ming intended his work to be read as a guide to comprehensive self-realization while living an ordinary life in the world. In his attempt to lift the veil of mystery from the esoteric language of the I Ching , he employs the terminology of psychology, sociology, history, myth, and religion. This commentary on the I Ching stands as a major contribution to the elucidation of Chinese spiritual genius.

Author : Boduan Zhang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Reality written by Boduan Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570623708
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Tao written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-09-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taoist teachings have arisen in many forms: abstract aphorisms, philosophical discussions, legends, fables—even jokes. All are represented here, culled from the most popular Taoist classics: the Tao-te Ching, Chuang-tzu, Huai-nan-tzu, and Wen-tzu, stories from the "Tales of Inner Meaning," and teachings of the Taoist patriarch Ancestor Lu. The spirit of the Tao manifests in myriad images, brought to life in this superb translation—from the ever-keen blade of a Taoist butcher to the mechanical miracles of inventor Ken Shiwa, from little boys baiting the great Confucius to mountain hermits disappearing in the mist, from the six robber organs that obscure the primordial to the ineffable mystery of mysteries.

Author : Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052092312X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Daoist Scriptures written by Stephen R. Bokenkamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now Stephen R. Bokenkamp introduces the reader to ancient scriptures never before published in the West, providing a systematic and easily accessible introduction to early Daoism (c. 2nd-6th C.E.). Representative works from each of the principal Daoist traditions comprise the basic structure of the book, with each chapter accompanied by an introduction that places the material within a historical and cultural context. Included are translations of the earliest Daoist commentary to Laozi's Daode jing (Tao Te Ching); historical documents relating the history of the early Daoist church; a petitioning ritual used to free believers from complaints brought against them by the dead; and two complete scriptures, one on individual meditation practice and another designed to rescue humanity from the terrors of hell through recitation of its powerful charms. In addition, Bokenkamp elucidates the connections Daoism holds with other schools of thought, particularly Confucianism and Buddhism. This book provides a much-needed introduction to Daoism for students of religion and is a welcome addition for scholars wishing to explore Daoist sacred literature. It serves as an overview to every aspect of early Daoist tradition and all the seminal practices which have helped shape the religion as it exists today.

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Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780283326
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner Chapters written by and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Chuang Tzu stand alongside the Tao Te Ching as foundational classics of Taoism. Dating back to the fourth century BC, The Inner Chapters is full of fantastical tales that both entertain and provide guidance on living a good life--a gigantic fish that becomes a bird, a cook who never sharpens his blade, a magical being who lives in the mountains, and more. This new luxury edition is distinguished by insightful commentary and superb photographs that convey in their wordless beauty the profound wisdom of Chuang Tzu's text.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texts of Taoism written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: