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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Taoism
Much as the modern Western world is concerned with diets, health,
and anti-aging remedies, many early medieval Chinese Daoists also
actively sought to improve their health and increase their
longevity through specialized ascetic dietary practices. Focusing
on a fifth-century manual of herbal-based, immortality-oriented
recipes-the Lingbao Wufuxu (The Preface to the Five Lingbao
Talismans of Numinous Treasure)-Shawn Arthur investigates the
diets, their ingredients, and their expected range of natural and
supernatural benefits. Analyzing the ways that early Daoists
systematically synthesized religion, Chinese medicine, and
cosmological correlative logic, this study offers new
understandings of important Daoist ideas regarding the body's
composition and mutability, health and disease, grain avoidance
(bigu) diets, the parasitic Three Worms, interacting with the
spirit realm, and immortality. This work also employs a range of
cross-disciplinary scientific and medical research to analyze the
healing properties of Daoist self-cultivation diets and to consider
some natural explanations for better understanding Daoist
asceticism and its underlying world view.
Il Tao Te Ching (o Dao De Jing), e considerata un'opera di immenso
valore culturale. Copre campi che vanno dalla filosofia, alla
spiritualita individuale, alle dinamiche dei rapporti
interpersonali. Il libro contiene istruzioni nascoste, ovvero sotto
forma di aforismi e metafore, sulla visione spirituale del mondo,
la meditazione e la respirazione."
Edition bilingue. "Reveiller les morts" est extrait du dernier
recueil de nouvelles de Lu Xun "Histoires anciennes, revisitees."
Cette edition bilingue s'adresse au lecteur de chinois de niveau
intermediaire souhaitant progresser dans la lecture de textes
litteraires relativement aises. Etre a (presque) soi tout seul le
fondateur d'une philosophie et le precurseur d'une grande religion
n'autorise pourtant pas toutes les fantaisies ni tous les caprices,
et Tchuang Tseu apprend a ses depens que tous les ressuscites ne
seront pas forcement reconnaissants... Sous la forme d'une petite
piece de theatre en un acte court, critique anachronique des
charlatans se revendiquant du taoisme et de la soumission au
pouvoir, l'auteur s'attaque au mepris des gourous et des
intellectuels pour le petit peuple. Lu Xun s'empare des mythes et
legendes les plus anciens de la Chine traditionnelle pour denoncer
avec une feroce ironie les nombreux travers de sa propre epoque et
de ses contemporains... Les huit recits tires de "Histoires
anciennes, revisitees" sont celebrissimes en Chine mais beaucoup
moins connus en Occident que le reste de son oeuvre de fiction.
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