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...

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.