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Internal alchemy : self, society, and the quest for immortality / edited by Livia Kohn & Robin R. Wang.

Title
Internal alchemy : self, society, and the quest for immortality / edited by Livia Kohn & Robin R. Wang.
Publication
Magdalena, N.M. : Three Pines Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Kohn, Livia, 1956-
  • Wang, Robin.
Description
248 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Self, society, and the quest for immortality
Subject
  • Alchemy > Taoism
  • Taoism > Customs and practices
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Modes of mutation: restructuring the energy body / Livia Kohn -- Internal landscapes / Sara Elaine Neswald -- History and early lineages / Guangbao Zhang -- The southern school: cultivating mind and inner nature / Xichen Lu -- Neidan methods for opening the gate of heaven / Stephen Eskildsen -- Summoning the thunder generals: internal alchemy in the thunder rites / Shinyi Chao -- Numinous father and holy mother: late-Ming duo-cultivation practice / Xun Liu -- Female alchemy : an introduction / Elena Valussi -- To become a female Daoist master: kundao in training / Robin Wang -- Neidan in America / Michael Winn -- On being moved: Kundalini and the complete maturation of the spiritual body / Stuart Sovatsky -- Western parallels: the esoteric teachings of Hermeticism / Althea Northage-Orr.
ISBN
9781931483117 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008052960
OCLC
  • 297404402
  • SCSB-10787828
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library