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by Kristofer Schipper; Karen C. Duval (Translator); Foreword by Norman Girardot

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The ancient system of thought known as Taoism remains today the least well known of the world's great religions and one of the most inaccessible aspects of Chinese culture. This is in large part because Western thought clings to the notion of the separation of matter and spirit, body and soul. Taoism refuses this dualism and considers the body's perfection as essential as the soul's redemption is to Christianity.

Kristofer Schipper's elegant and lucid introduction to the traditions of Taoism and the masters who transmit them will reward all those interested in China and in religions. The result of over twenty-five years of research, including eight years of fieldwork in China, Schipper's book retraces, step by step, the way that leads from Chinese shamanism and traditional village life to the physical Tending Life techniques, which in turn lead to the mysticism of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Schipper shows the fundamental unity underlying all aspects of Taoism as Taoism considers itself to be. The social body--the community, the village, the land--corresponds in all aspects to the physical body in Taoism. In both of them the survival of humanity is decided here and now. "My destiny is within me, not in Heaven!"

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  • Title The Taoist Body
  • Author Kristofer Schipper; Karen C. Duval (Translator); Foreword by Norman Girardot
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Publication date 1994-03-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780520082243 / 0520082249
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 6.01 x 0.81 in (22.66 x 15.27 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Religious Orientation: Taoism
  • Category Religion - Socialissues
  • Library of Congress subjects Taoism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93028999
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.514

About the author

Kristofer Schipper is currently Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris. An ordained Taoist priest and one of the world's leading authorities on Taoism, Schipper has published extensively on the subject in French, English, Chinese, and Japanese. Karen C. Duval is Research Editor with The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Norman Girardot is chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at Lehigh University and author of Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism (California, 1983).
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