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In the shadows of the Dao : Laozi, the sage, and the Daodejing / Thomas Michael.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culturePublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781438458991
  • 1438458991
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the shadows of the DaoDDC classification:
  • 299.5/1482 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1900.L35 M53 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Reading Daodejing synthetically -- Modern scholarship on the Daodejing -- Traditions of reading the Daodejing -- The Daos of Laozi and Confucius -- Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing -- The sage and the world -- The sage and the project -- The sage and bad knowledge -- The sage and good knowledge.
Summary: "Thomas Michael's study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Reading Daodejing synthetically -- Modern scholarship on the Daodejing -- Traditions of reading the Daodejing -- The Daos of Laozi and Confucius -- Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing -- The sage and the world -- The sage and the project -- The sage and bad knowledge -- The sage and good knowledge.

"Thomas Michael's study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao."