Cultivating perfection : : mysticism and self-transformation in early Quanzhen Daoism / / by Louis Komjathy.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia, v. 75 [i.e. 76]
• Author: Komjathy, Louis, 1971-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 76.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, specific training regimens, and the types of experiences that were expected to follow from dedicated praxis. On the basis of historical contextualization and textual analysis it is demonstrated that in its formative and incipient organized phases Quanzhen was a Daoist religious community consisting of a few renunciants dedicated to religious praxis. The study proper is followed by a complete annotated translation of a text attributed to the founder, which represents one of only two early Quanzhen texts translated to date. Subsequent appendices address issues of dating and contents of the early textual corpus as well as technical Quanzhen religious terminology.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / L. Komjathy -- Introduction / L. Komjathy -- Chapter One. Historical Development / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Two. Self, Praxis, Experience / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Three. Ordinary Human Being / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Four. Self In Cultivational Context / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Five. Foundational Practices / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Six. Advanced Training Regimens / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Seven. Mystical Experiences And Numinous Abilities / L. Komjathy -- Chapter Eight. Mystical Being And Mystical Experiencing / L. Komjathy -- Translation Introduction. Approaching Perfected Chongyang’S Instructions / L. Komjathy -- Annotated Translation. Perfected Chongyang’S Instructions On The Gold Pass And Jade Lock / L. Komjathy -- Appendix One. Concise Chronology Of Early Quanzhen Daoism / L. Komjathy -- Appendix Two. Genealogy Of Early Quanzhen Daoism / L. Komjathy -- Appendix Three. Early Quanzhen Textual Corpus / L. Komjathy -- Appendix Four. Chinese Text Of Chongyang Zhenren Jinguan Yusuo Jue / L. Komjathy -- Appendix Five. Towards A Technical Glossary Of Early Quanzhen Daoism / L. Komjathy -- Appendix Six. Comparative Chart Of Hachiya’S Annotations With The Text Contained In The Daoist Canon (Dz 1156) / L. Komjathy -- Character Glossary / L. Komjathy -- Works Thought Through / L. Komjathy -- Index / L. Komjathy.