Drawing on medieval Chinese poetry, fiction, and religious scriptures, this book illuminates the greatest goddess of Taoism and her place in Chinese society.
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Excellent study of a world-class goddess,
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This review is from: Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China (Paperback)
Cahill's study explores the prehistoric roots and historic development of one of the world's greatest goddess cults. Starting with shamanic tales so paleolithic they echo with subconscious memory, the goddess Xi Wang Mu transmutes into a refined lady with powers over death, birth, and immortality. Her cult becomes a spiritual path for Daoist women which has influenced popular religion down to the present. This book is scholarly, but it could win converts.--author of A Galaxy of Immortal Women: The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization
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Before turning to her image during the T'ang, we will first survey the Queen Mother's early history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rainbow chemise, sheng headdress, eight chargers, jade storied buildings, auroral clouds, primordial commencement, assembled transcendents, primordial ruler, five marchmounts, dark female force, fortified walled city, shu chi nien, three blue birds, elixir drugs, female transcendents, celestial worthy, mirror inscriptions, supreme clarity, metal mother, transcendent people, transmissions concerning, divine matchmaker, immortal embryo, belt pendants, broad phenomena Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Turquoise Pond, Yellow Thearch, Han Wu-ti, Mount K'un-lun, Martial Thearch, Six Dynasties, Lady of the Supreme Primordial, Mao Ying, Metal Mother, Tung-fang Shuo, Mount Sung, Lord Mao, Mount Hua, Realm of Supreme Clarity, Master Liu, Celestial King of the Primordial Commencement, Celestial Masters, Fertile Tumulus, Book of Han, Double Seven, Milky Way, Ts'ao T'ang, Wang Chien, Western Mother, Chang Tzu-fang New!
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Before turning to her image during the T'ang, we will first survey the Queen Mother's early history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rainbow chemise, sheng headdress, eight chargers, jade storied buildings, auroral clouds, primordial commencement, assembled transcendents, primordial ruler, five marchmounts, dark female force, fortified walled city, shu chi nien, three blue birds, elixir drugs, female transcendents, celestial worthy, mirror inscriptions, supreme clarity, metal mother, transcendent people, transmissions concerning, divine matchmaker, immortal embryo, belt pendants, broad phenomena Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Turquoise Pond, Yellow Thearch, Han Wu-ti, Mount K'un-lun, Martial Thearch, Six Dynasties, Lady of the Supreme Primordial, Mao Ying, Metal Mother, Tung-fang Shuo, Mount Sung, Lord Mao, Mount Hua, Realm of Supreme Clarity, Master Liu, Celestial King of the Primordial Commencement, Celestial Masters, Fertile Tumulus, Book of Han, Double Seven, Milky Way, Ts'ao T'ang, Wang Chien, Western Mother, Chang Tzu-fang New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Taoism and Chinese Religion by Henri Maspero on 4 pages
- Ways to Paradise by Michael Loewe on 4 pages
- Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion by Holmes Welch on 4 pages
- The Arts of China (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book) by Michael Sullivan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women in World Religions (Mcgill Studies in the History of Religions) (Suny Series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions) by Arvind Sharma in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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