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Taming the Wild Horse : An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures / Louis Komjathy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 23 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231181266
  • 9780231543521
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.11/42 23
LOC classification:
  • PL2687.G36 Z73 2017
  • PL2687.G36
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. In Search of the Wild Horse -- 2. Of Stallions, Steppes, and Stables -- Part II. Translations -- Horse Taming Poems -- Commentary on the Horse Taming Poems -- Part III. Exegesis -- Being with Horses -- Appendix 1. Hagiography of Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) -- Appendix 2. Song of Pure Awakening -- Appendix 3. Horse-Related Technical Terminology in the Horse Taming Pictures -- Notes -- Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually unknown text offers unique insights into the transformative effects of Daoist contemplative practice. Taming the Wild Horse examines Gao's illustrated poems in terms of monasticism and contemplative practice, as well as the multivalent meaning of the "horse" in traditional Chinese culture and the consequences for both human and nonhuman animals.The Horse Taming Pictures consist of twelve poems, ten of which are equine-centered. They develop the metaphor of a "wild" or "untamed" horse to represent ordinary consciousness, which must be reined in and harnessed through sustained self-cultivation, especially meditation. The compositions describe stages on the Daoist contemplative path. Komjathy provides opportunities for reflection on contemplative practice in general and Daoist meditation in particular, which may lead to a transpersonal way of perceiving and being.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. In Search of the Wild Horse -- 2. Of Stallions, Steppes, and Stables -- Part II. Translations -- Horse Taming Poems -- Commentary on the Horse Taming Poems -- Part III. Exegesis -- Being with Horses -- Appendix 1. Hagiography of Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) -- Appendix 2. Song of Pure Awakening -- Appendix 3. Horse-Related Technical Terminology in the Horse Taming Pictures -- Notes -- Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually unknown text offers unique insights into the transformative effects of Daoist contemplative practice. Taming the Wild Horse examines Gao's illustrated poems in terms of monasticism and contemplative practice, as well as the multivalent meaning of the "horse" in traditional Chinese culture and the consequences for both human and nonhuman animals.The Horse Taming Pictures consist of twelve poems, ten of which are equine-centered. They develop the metaphor of a "wild" or "untamed" horse to represent ordinary consciousness, which must be reined in and harnessed through sustained self-cultivation, especially meditation. The compositions describe stages on the Daoist contemplative path. Komjathy provides opportunities for reflection on contemplative practice in general and Daoist meditation in particular, which may lead to a transpersonal way of perceiving and being.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)