RT Book T1 Daoism, meditation, and the wonders of serenity: from the latter Han dynasty (25-220) to the Tang dynasty (618-907) T2 SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture A1 Eskildsen, Stephen 1963- LA English PP Albany PB State University of New York Press YR 2015 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1619020947 AB "Stephen Eskildsen offers an overview of Daoist religious texts from the Latter Han (25-220) through Tang (618-907) periods, exploring passive meditation methods and their anticipated effects. These methods entailed observing the processes that unfold spontaneously within mind and body, rather than actively manipulating them by means common in medieval Daoist religion such as visualization, invocations, and the swallowing of breath or saliva NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN BL1923 SN 1438458231 SN 9781438458236 K1 Meditation : Taoism K1 Taoism : History : To 1500 : China K1 Taoism : China : History K1 Taoism : China : History : To 1500