Chinese Occultism
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465535500
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465535500
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Astrology, Chinese
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Author : Michel Strickmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804743341
This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, the book provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality.
Author : Ireneus László Legeza
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Art
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Author : Obed Simon Johnson
Publisher : Martino Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781578986828
Reprint. Paperback.156p. In China as elsewhere, alchemy is a doctrine aiming to afford an understanding of the principles underlying the formation and functioning of the cosmos. The alchemist overcomes the limits of individuality, and ascends to higher states of being; he becomes, in Chinese terms, a zhenren or Authentic Man. Chinese alchemy went through a complex and not yet entirely understood development along its twenty centuries of documented history. The two main traditions are conventionally known as waidan or "external alchemy" and neidan or "internal alchemy". The bulk of the Chinese alchemical sources is found in the Daozang (Taoist Canon), the largest collection of Taoist texts. The cosmos as we know it is conceived of as the final stage in a series of spontaneous transmutations stemming from original non-existence. This process entails the apparent separation of primeval Unity into the two complementary principles, yin and yang. Their re-union generates the cosmos. When the process is completed, the cosmos is subject to the laws of cosmology. The alchemist's task is to retrace this process backwards. Alchemy, whether "external" or "internal," providessupport to the adept, leading one to the point when, as some texts put it, "Heaven spontaneously reveals its secrets." Its practice must be performed under the close supervision of a master, who provides the "oral instructions" (koujue) necessary to an understanding of the processes that the adept performs with minerals and metals, or undergoes within himself. Modern study of the alchemical literature began in the present century, after the Canon was reprinted and made widely available in 1926. Johnson's work, originally published in 1928, remains one of the full book length treatises in English on the subject.
Author : Glen Dudbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521893220
The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study analyses these tales.
Author : Frena Bloomfield
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780345363596
A compendium of philosophy, customs, and healing traditions.
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Philosophy, Chinese
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Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780875481555
Chinese Astrology contains a lucid account of the major systems of Chinese mysticism. Paul Carus' unique work pictures Chinese astrology and Western astrology side by side. Tables of symbols handily compare Chinese, Indian, Roman and Egyptian astrological symbols. Astrology's aficionados and sceptics will be fascinated by the puzzling similarities of symbols, and will be drawn to wonder if there was more exchange between the East and West at the dawn of civilization than has been documented to date. Chinese Astrology is a scholarly work that can take a proud place in the history of archaeology and Oriental studies. Most books on Oriental thought concentrate on either Confucius or Lao Tze. Paul Carus traces an historical continuum of ideas: the Yih System, P'an-Ku, Feng-Shu Lo-Pan are all part of the history of Chinese thought.
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Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781953124067
Discover the China that before now was only whispered about in the dark. In this collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum share paranormal and glitch in the matrix tales from across present-day China. Confided by eyewitnesses, these true stories uncannily echo Western encounters with chilling dimensions of reality and supernatural entities. At the same time, they thrillingly immerse the reader in everyday Chinese life and occult beliefs. Zhiguai: Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix includes such accounts as: *The reincarnation of a teenager whose fate eerily mimics his predecessor's *A girl who dies in the womb but nevertheless continues to communicate with her twin *Terrifying shifts into demonic parallel universes *Walls desperately painted with blood to save a family from tragedy *Huge populations that disappear into thin air *The revenge-seeking ghosts of murdered cats *Weird temporal shifts *Occult murders From the terrifying to the uncanny, this collection will not only change your understanding of China but of reality itself.