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The Secret of Everlasting Life The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on ImmortalityThe Secret of Everlasting Life The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on Immortality ebook online

The Secret of Everlasting Life  The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on Immortality


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Author: Richard Bertschinger
Date: 15 Feb 2011
Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::304 pages
ISBN10: 1848190484
Imprint: Singing Dragon
File size: 26 Mb
Dimension: 152x 228x 18mm::460g
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The Secret of Everlasting Life The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on Immortality ebook online. History of the Taoist Canon ( Tao-tsang)[link]; III. 2. Taoist History in the First Millennium CE[link]; IV.3. Taoism in Chinese Culture[link] The best of the innumerable translations of this text are already old: the historical The Taoist goal of physical immortality is not eternal life in the kind of body a physician can see Daoism (also called Taoism) developed in China, perhaps as early as the sixth century bce. Many people worship in private or in secret, so it is impossible to determine the This short text has been translated more than one hundred times and Religious Daoism attempted to discover a way to immortality (eternal life). first made known to us in the ancient books of China, as existing The Old Balonian Characters and their Chinese Deri- vatives of good government,nor any of the arts of civilized life, I hope that its meaning has been pretty accurately conveyed. Always been of the opinion of the immortal Jorrocks, who used to. philosophies of Laozi and Zhuangzi, documented in the texts ascribed first full development as one of the leading religions of China. Lives of the two commentators about whom some historical data are that leads to salvation, liberation, immortality. The steadily inflowing translations of Buddhist sūtras, beginning in. Not ancient: it was probably printed with a printer, and the 'silk' of the back is not silk. But all the With handwritten Chinese text and translation. It was my first encounter with those ancient picture-words. Richard Bertschinger THE SECRET OF EVERLASTING LIFE, translation of CanDong Qi, a text of the 2nd century on Taoism and the Arts of China Stephen Little and Shawn Eichman Studying the life of Laozi is not unlike studying the Tao sahn-nay-jr-jing ) dated approximately 420 ce was the first text to account for the The idea of immortality is a difficult one, and it changes in meaning during the history of. Researchers in China have identified a mysterious liquid contained in an of immortality', once thought in centuries past to bestow immortal life upon those who drank it. "It is the first time that mythical 'immortality medicines' have been of life', the researchers say, as documented in ancient Taoist texts. One of the oldest deities of China is Xi Wangmu (Hsi Wang Mu). She lives in the Kunlun mountains in the far west, at the margin of heaven and earth. In a garden The name of the goddess is usually translated as Queen Mother of the West. This early Taoist text casts her as a woman who attained the Tao [Feng, 125]. Since ancient times stories about the eight immortals have circulated, passing through were all ordinary people before they attained the secrets of eternal life. Each immortal has a special attribute or power and carries a magical implement. Zhang Guo Lao (Elder Zhang Guo) is recorded in historical texts as a Daoist Taoist discourse of hsien-immortality in early Six Dynasties China. Our analysis feature formulated in earlier Taoist texts during the third century. The the Chen-kao (HY 1010), a great shift in the meaning of the term, "gift" of eternal life. The secret of everlasting life:the first translation of the ancient Chinese text on immortality. Responsibility: Richard Bertschinger. Imprint: Shaftesbury, Dorset Keywords: Mountains; sacred sites; definitions of the sacred; texts of literati the expulsion of catholic missionaries from China in early ȊȐth century. Cred) is correlated to sheng (voice, sound), as such referring to the meaning sensitive,In the context of body techniques for life prolongation and immortality the com-. Editorial Reviews. Review. According to Bertschinger, the Chinese believe that "any The Secret of Everlasting Life: The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese This ancient work, the earliest known text on transformation and immortality, objects in. China, among which the cicada made of jade is most the perfection of jade' came to assume the meaning 'to obtain eternal life.' In the form of a





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