The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy - Isabelle Robinet - Boeken - Golden Elixir Press - 9780984308262 - 29 juli 2011
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The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy

Isabelle Robinet

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The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy

This book contains four essays on Internal Alchemy (Neidan) by Isabelle Robinet, originally published in French and translated here for the first time into English. The essays are concerned with the alchemical principle of "inversion"; the devices used by the alchemists to "give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao"; the symbolic function of numbers in Taoism and in Internal Alchemy; and the original meanings of the terms "External Elixir" (waidan) and "Internal Elixir" (neidan).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, vii

1. The World Upside Down in Taoist Internal Alchemy, 1
2. The Alchemical Language, or the Effort to Say the Contradictory, 17
3. Role and Meaning of Numbers in Taoist Cosmology and Alchemy, 45
4. On the Meaning of the Terms Waidan and Neidan, 75

Tables and Pictures, 103
Appendix: Works by Isabelle Robinet, 113
Glossary of Chinese Characters, 117
Works Quoted, 123

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 29 juli 2011
ISBN13 9780984308262
Uitgevers Golden Elixir Press
Pagina's 140
Afmetingen 138 × 8 × 213 mm   ·   185 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  
Deelnemer Fabrizio Pregadio

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