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Author | : Michael Nylan |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438414854 |
This is a translation, with a commentary and a long contextualizing introduction, of the only major work of Han (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.) philosophy that is still available in complete form. It is the first translation of the work into a European language and provides unique access to this formative period in Chinese history. Because Yang Hsiung's interpretations drew upon a variety of pre-Han sources and then dominated Confucian learning until the twelfth century, this text is also a valuable resource on early Chinese history, philosophy, and culture beyond the Han period. The T'ai hsüan is also one of the world's great philosophic poems comparable in scale and grandeur to Lucretius' De rerum naturum. Nathan Sivin has written that this is one of the titles on the short list of Chinese books every cultivated person should read. Han thinkers saw in this text a compelling restatement of Confucian doctrine that addressed the major objections posed by rival schools including Mohism, Taoism, Legalism and Yin-Yang Five Phase Theory. Since this Han amalgam formed the basis for the state ideology of China from 134 B.C. to 1911, an ideology that in turn provided the intellectual foundations for the Japanese and Korean states, the importance of this book can hardly be overestimated.
Author | : Derek Walters |
Publisher | : Watkins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9781842930601 |
Author | : Derek Walters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
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Author | : Carlo Moiraghi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9788820034177 |
Author | : Derek Walters |
Publisher | : Aqua Quest Publications |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Divination |
ISBN | : 9780850306590 |
Author | : Bill Whitcomb |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : 9780875428680 |
This "desk reference" is overflowing with a wide range of occult and esoteric materials on Eastern and Western magical systems. Over thirty-five magical models are compared and discussed. Begins with an introduction to magic, including a program of study so you can use any of the ninety-one systems described. Reveals the secrets of alchemy, magical alphabets, the chakras, the Tree of Life, astrology, and much more. It makes the ancient magical systems accessible, understandable and useful to modern magicians.
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Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : Stuart Alve Olson |
Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001-11-05 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780892819447 |
Provides a step-by-step photographic guide to each posture in the Before Heaven T'ai Chi form and illustrates the 64 postures of the After Heaven T'ai Chi form. Also includes discussion of the universal principals of the pratice of T'ai Chi and the philosophy of the I Ching.
Author | : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300101607 |
The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication--each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors' new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority. By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004201645 |
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.