Taoist Meditation: The Mao-Shan Tradition of Great Purity

by Isabelle Robinet

Book Overview

Isabelle Robinet's Taoist Meditation is the first and only scholarly study to discuss the ancient Mao-shan Taoist tradition of visionary meditation while, at the same time, helping to clarify the little understood relationship among the early Taoist classics, the Buddhist tradition, and the later Taoist religion. Most importantly, Taoist Meditation is a pioneering study that fully and accurately describes the unique visionary cosmology, bodily symbolism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791413608
• ISBN13: 9780791413609
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"