Concise and comprehensive introduction to the Daoist religion, thematically divided into four parts: Ancient Thought, Religious Communities, Spiritual Practices, Modernity. The book offers an integrated vision of the tradition in its historical and cultural context, also placing it into a larger framework of comparative religion. Contains many original sources and useful references for further reading. Great for students, practitioners, and general audiences.
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Livia Kohn is a world-renowned scholar of Daoism and professor of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University. Her works include , , , and .
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Best Introduction to Daoism,
By James Miller (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daoism and Chinese Culture (Paperback)
Livia Kohn has taught Daoism to college students for over 15 years, and she just edited the Daoism Handbook (which you can buy for a whopping $245!). She's one of the world's experts on Daoism, and for the first time she's put together an extraordinarily readable introduction to one of the world's most fascinating and least understood religions.Unlike many books on Daoism this book covers the whole history from ancient wisdom traditions, through medieval religious communities, to contemporary spiritual practices such as Qigong and Falun gong. Nowhere else are you going to get as comprehensive, and as readable an introduction. It's not just dry history because the author makes connections to broader issues in Chinese culture and also to issues in comparative religions such as mysticism, modernity, identity and community. It's a great book and great value too.
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The Many Daos,
By Eric Maroney (Trumansburg, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daoism and Chinese Culture (Paperback)
Livia Kohn has written an excellent, if not sometimes overly detailed, introduction to Daoism in Daoism and Chinese Culture. The complexity is confusing, but also compelling. She does not shy away from showing how Daoism changed over time, incorporating a wide variety of practices from Chinese folk religion and tradition, Buddhism, Confucianism, as well as going through a myriad of internal changes, as it transmuted into different branches and trends, each stressing some new or old (or new-old) element of Daoism.Daoism comes across in Kohn's book not as Daoism, but daoisms. There is great deal of information in this book ina short space, and Kohn does not dilute it for us in the least.
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Livia Kohn's book is both a wonderful survey of Daoist philosophy but also an engaging cultural history.
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The earliest thinker venerated in the Daoist religion, and the best known of all Daoist texts are known by the name of Laozi, which literally means "Old Master" or "Old Child." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ecstatic excursions, immortal embryo, longevity techniques, lower cinnabar field, twofold mystery, inner alchemy, celestial master, longevity practices, easy wandering, alchemical practice, primordial beginning, morality books, popular deities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Celestial Masters, Lord Lao, Complete Perfection, State University of New York Press, Zhuang Zhou, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Original Sources, United States, Hong Kong, Inner Chapters, The Taoist Experience, University of Hawaii Press, Wang Chongyang, Three Caverns, Central Asian, Dark Warrior, Livia Kohn, Seven Perfected, Ann Arbor, Eight Immortals, Guo Xiang, Highest Clarity, New Haven, Taoist Tradition New!
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The earliest thinker venerated in the Daoist religion, and the best known of all Daoist texts are known by the name of Laozi, which literally means "Old Master" or "Old Child." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ecstatic excursions, immortal embryo, longevity techniques, lower cinnabar field, twofold mystery, inner alchemy, celestial master, longevity practices, easy wandering, alchemical practice, primordial beginning, morality books, popular deities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Celestial Masters, Lord Lao, Complete Perfection, State University of New York Press, Zhuang Zhou, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Original Sources, United States, Hong Kong, Inner Chapters, The Taoist Experience, University of Hawaii Press, Wang Chongyang, Three Caverns, Central Asian, Dark Warrior, Livia Kohn, Seven Perfected, Ann Arbor, Eight Immortals, Guo Xiang, Highest Clarity, New Haven, Taoist Tradition New!
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- The Inner Chapters by Zhuangzi on 6 pages
- Daoism Handbook (2 volume set) by L. Kohn on 5 pages
- Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion by Holmes Welch on 5 pages
- Early Daoist Scriptures (Daoist Classics , No 1) by Stephen R. Bokenkamp on page 73, page 81, and page 99
- Original Tao by Harold D. Roth on page 24, and page 26
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- Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory (Ideas Explained) by Hans-Georg Moeller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Taoist Manual: An Illustrated Guide Applying Taoism to Daily Life by Brock Silvers on page 174, and Back Matter
- In Search of the True Light by Mike Shreve in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Forget That Diet And Eat What You Need: The Tao of Eating by Elizabeth Terp in Back Matter
- Women in Daoism by Catherine Despeux on page 266
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