Daoism

Dissertation Abstract

by Michael Stanley-Baker

Abstract for PhD Dissertation, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London

Daoists as Doctors – The role of medicine in Six Dynasties Shangqing Daoism

The thesis focusses on the... more Daoists as Doctors – The role of medicine in Six Dynasties Shangqing Daoism

The thesis focusses on the early Shangqing 上清 revelations from 363-370, and the use of syncretic approaches in healing. This problematizes Religion and Medicine as discrete areas of activity, and their histories as discrete scholarly disciplines.

It further contextualises the Shangqing sect within the healing activities of other contemporary religious sects, and offers new suggestions for the motivations behind the particularly eclectic syncretism that is found in the Shangqing sect.

My ideas, particularly on the latter paragraph, have developed and changed considerably since I wrote the uploaded abstract, so the final dissertation will look considerably different.

Feel free to contact me to discuss any of the topics raised here.

An/archy and the Dao, Levinas and the Great Teacher

by Donovan Irven

The Daoist, the Frog and the Pipe

by Gestur Hilmarsson

Philosophical Daoism, taught by Günter Wohlfart at
University of Iceland in spring 2012

A short paper containing a few thoughts on self-referentiality in Daoist thought, Haiku and art. A short paper containing a few thoughts on self-referentiality in Daoist thought, Haiku and art.

Review of David E. Cooper, 'Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective'

by Ian James Kidd

Forthcoming in Environmental Values.

There is much to admire in Cooper’s elegant and insightful book. It offers a sustained account of how Daoism can help... more There is much to admire in Cooper’s elegant and insightful book. It offers a sustained account of how Daoism can help to inform our understanding of our own engagement with nature, and a way of achieving, or regaining, ‘convergence with nature’.

Daoism and the Formation of Onmyōdō

by Joseph Elacqua

Forthcoming (2013) in a special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, published by the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture.

This article is a translation of "Onmyōdō no Keisei to Dōkyō" 陰陽道の形成と道教 by Masuo Shinichirō 増尾伸一郎. The original Japanese article appears in Hayashi Makoto 林淳 and Koike Junichi 小池淳一, eds., "Onmyōdō no Kōgi" 陰陽道の講義.  Kyōto: Sagano Shoin, 2002.  23-44.

Encyclopedia of Chinese History (Selections)

by Joseph Elacqua

Forthcoming (2013) from Routledge.

I was contracted to compose thirteen articles for the "Encyclopedia of Chinese History" to be published by... more I was contracted to compose thirteen articles for the "Encyclopedia of Chinese History" to be published by Routledge in 2013. These articles include "Ennin," "Guan Zhong, "Huainanzi," "Japan," "Lü Buwei," "Qi State," "Sacrifices," "Shundi," "Toyotomi Hideyoshi," "Wudi," "Yao," "Yu," and "Zhang Daoling."

encyclopedia article on the term "Taoismus"

by Thomas Jülch

in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, vol. 12. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011. pp. 269-274
(in collaboration with Prof. Achim Mittag)

Transformation in the Shanhaijing

by Alison Marshall

In the World of Persons: The Personhood Debate in the Analects and Zhuangzi

by Alexus McLeod

"It Goes Beyond Skill"

by Dan Robins

Ethics in Early China: An Anthology, edited by Chris Fraser, Dan Robins, and Timothy O'Leary (Hong Kong University Press, 2011), 105--123

I give an account of what it might mean to claim to say that dao, ways of acting, give rise to the cosmos, a claim... more I give an account of what it might mean to claim to say that dao, ways of acting, give rise to the cosmos, a claim that several Daoist texts seem to make. I focus on the idea that dao takes us beyond skill, that is, it allows us to go beyond what we already know how to do by adapting ourselves to the particularities of a situation. I suggest that some Daoist authors saw this as akin to the way in which things come into existence.

Daoist Spirituality

by Alexander Chow

In Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen G. Scorgie (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 388-389.

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by Reges Lind

Daria Berg. "Frauen in Weltreligionen: Taoismus"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Frauen in Weltreligionen: Taoismus. In: Elisabeth Gössmann (ed.). Wörterbuch der feministischen Theologie. Second Edition. Gütersloh: Güterloher Verlagshaus. 2002. 174-176.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.randomhouse.de/Buch/Woerterbuch-der-Feministischen-Theologie/Elisabeth-Goessmann/e204136.rhd

Kant and China: Aesthetics, Race, and Nature

by Eric S. Nelson

Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 509–525.

In this paper, I examine Kant’s questionable interpretation of China and its “mysticism,” his problematic... more In this paper, I examine Kant’s questionable interpretation of China and its “mysticism,” his problematic racial-aesthetics, and how Kant articulated an aesthetics and ethics of nature in the Critique of Judgment that is evocative of both early Daoist approaches to nature and Chinese aesthetics. By stressing human receptiveness to free natural beauty, Kant proves there is more than the human domination of nature as either: (1) a constituted product or (2) mere objects of use and exploitation. In the core of the third Critique, it appears as if the sublime reveals nature to be more than the human world only in the end for it to be lesser than human dignity. Kant’s sublime risks endangering the person while disclosing the possibility of reaffirming the dignity of the individual in relation to the natural world. If that dignity is not affirmed, the person is overwhelmed in the adventurous or the grotesque. In the concluding section, I discuss the differences between Kant and early Daoism by contrasting Kant's claim that the awe and terror of the sublime is the possibility of a dignity and vocation that transcends the world with Zhuangzi's attention to an immanent attunement and ethos in accord with the natural world.

Una introduzione ai recenti studi taoisti

by Fabrizio Pregadio

Cina 17 (1981): 81-99

Wang Chong e il Taoismo: (1) Traduzione annotata del Lun heng, cap. 24: "Falsità sul Dao"

by Fabrizio Pregadio

Cina 18 (1982): 7-48

The Medical Texts of Ma-wang-tui [Keiji Yamada (ed.), Shin hatsugen Chūgoku kagakushi shiryō no kankyū]

by Fabrizio Pregadio

Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 5 (1990): 381-86 — Chinese trl. by Chen Jinmei in Daojiaoxue tansuo 5 (1991): 129-35

Two Recent Books on the Taoist "Cultivation of Life" [Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques; Yoshinobu Sakade (ed.), Chūgoku kodai kagakushi ron]

by Fabrizio Pregadio

Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 5 (1990): 387-404 — Chinese trl. by Chen Jinmei in Daojiaoxue tansuo 5 (1991): 135-63

Il Canone Taoista (Tao-tsang): Guida agli studi e alle opere di consultatione

by Fabrizio Pregadio

Cina 24 (1993): 7-39

Inner Alchemy (Neidan)

by Fabrizio Pregadio

With Lowell Skar — In Daoism Handbook, ed. Livia Kohn, 464-97 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000)