Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-Transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism

by Louis Komjathy

This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, specific training regimens, and the types of experiences that were expected to follow from dedicated praxis. On the basis of historical contextualization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004160388
• ISBN13: 9789004160385
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 2.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.9" x 9.7"