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 Daoist Body Cultivation:
First Chapter By Lonny Jarrett
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What some experts in the field are saying about Daoist Body Cultivation:
Livia Kohn embraces our collective minds and bodies yet again with an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible collection of articles on the Daoist tradition’s ways of body transformation. Kohn’s introduction is an admirably discerning and concise overview of the best current scholarship on the subject, and the individual contributions, all by leading scholars and practitioners, concretely focus on as yet little understood practices of Daoist body cultivation. This book moves our understanding of Daoist bodily practices to a new level of interpretive insight and appreciation, a level that challenges many lingering assumptions and fantasies found in the popular assessment of Daoism. Recommended for anyone who wants to encounter the “real” and evolving Daoist tradition.
—Norman Girardot, Lehigh University,
Livia Kohn embraces our collective minds and bodies yet again with an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible collection of articles on the Daoist tradition’s ways of body transformation. Kohn’s introduction is an admirably discerning and concise overview of the best current scholarship on the subject, and the individual contributions, all by leading scholars and practitioners, concretely focus on as yet little understood practices of Daoist body cultivation. This book moves our understanding of Daoist bodily practices to a new level of interpretive insight and appreciation, a level that challenges many lingering assumptions and fantasies found in the popular assessment of Daoism. Recommended for anyone who wants to encounter the “real” and evolving Daoist tradition.
Daoist Body Cultivation contains eight excellent and detailed studies and a superb introduction in its exploration of Daoist techniques and theories of how to live long, healthy, and harmoniously. Contributors focus on qi refinement for the improvement of health, energy, and spirituality. They offer a new and deeper understanding of the centuries-old and still evolving body practices of the Daoist religion. While presenting rich information from classical texts, they also demonstrate how the methods are used today. The result is a fruitful marriage between academic research and practical experience. This book is worthwhile for academics who are interested in Daoist practices as well as for practitioners who would like to learn the theories and history of their methods.
—Shin-yi Chao, Rutgers University,
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