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Women in Daoism

History

Catherine Despeux

Livia Kohn

Asia

Three Pines Press

La alquimia interior practicada por los taoístas apuntaba a la obtención de la inmortalidad a partir de diversos métodos psicofisiológicos utilizando los ingredientes del cuerpo. Aunque existen bastantes obras de alquimia destinadas al hombre, la literatura sobre la alquimia femenina es casi inexistente. Sin embargo, la muj

Taoismo y Alquimia Femenina (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

La Liebre de Marzo

<p>"Catherine Despeux's book is a study of the Internal Alchemical text "Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection." It begins with an analysis of pictographic and symbolic representation of the body in early Taoism after which the author examines different extant versions of the "Chart" as it was transmitted among Quanzhen groups in the Qing dynasty. The book is comprised of four main parts: the principal parts of the body and their nomenclature in Internal Alchemy, the spirits in the human body, and the alchemical processes and procedures used in thunder rituals and self-cultivation. This is a revised, expanded edition of the original French edition Taoèisme et connaissance de soi. La carte de la culture de la perfection (Xiuzhen tu) Paris, 2012"--</p>

Taoism and Self Knowledge (Sinica Leidensia, 142)

World

BRILL

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