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To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents (Taoist Classics, 2)
To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents - Taoist Classics, 2
Author: Robert Ford Campany, Ge Hong
4 b/w illustrations In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narrati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520230347
ISBN-10: 0520230345
Publication Date: 4/8/2002
Pages: 607
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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