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Early Daoist Dietary Practices
- Examining Ways to Health and Longevity
Engelsk Hardback
Early Daoist Dietary Practices
- Examining Ways to Health and Longevity
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780739178928
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
073917892X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 jun 2013
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
27 jun 2013
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge