[PDF.74jy] Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (Asian Religions and Cultures)

Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (Asian Religions and Cultures)

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 | #1369392 in Books |  2006-02-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.00 x6.13l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 386 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent|By Don Quickoats|This book addresses some of the issues associated with the earliest alchemy-oriented traditions in China. Pregadio takes care to make fine distinctions between lineages and traditions, origins of claims of attribution and relevance to alchemy. He shows that the texts associated with Tai Qing (Great Clarity) were incorporated into the particular reli| |"Pregadio has chosen this multifaceted term [Great Clarity/Taiqing] to label the earliest alchemist tradition, which is the focus of this superb study. With this publication, Pregadio has proven himself to be the leading scholar of early alchemy in Chi

This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body of doctrines and practices that Daoists built at that time, from which Daoism as we know it today evolved. The book also clarifies the origins of Chinese alchemy and the res...

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