A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The Zhen'gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1

by Stephen R. Bokenkamp

This volume is the first in a series of full-length English translations from one of the foremost classics in Daoist religious literature, the Zhen gao or Declarations of the Perfected. The Declarations is a collection of poems, accounts of the dead, instructions, and meditation methods received by the Daoist Yang Xi (330-ca. 386 BCE) from celestial beings and shared by him with his patrons and students. These fragments of revealed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520356268
• ISBN13: 9780520356269
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"