A Collated and Critical Study of the Xiang’er Commentary to the Laozi

This work is a translation of the Xiang'er commentary to the Daodejing and Jao Tsung-i's (1917-2018) supplemental notes and analysis. Jao Tsung-i offers a historically and hermeneutically rich study of the Xiang’er Commentary , discovered in the Mogao caves at Dunhuang in the final years o...

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Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i ; 5.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i: Xuantang Anthology—Series Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Translator’s Preface
  • Preface
  • 1 Explanatory Abstract
  • 2 Recorded Commentary of Xiang’er
  • 3 Annotative Discussion
  • 4 Annotative Notes
  •  1 The Origin of the Name “Daoist Religion”
  •  2 The Genuine Dao, Genuineness of the Dao, and the Genuine Text
  •  3 Tenets of the Dao
  •  4 Person of Dao, Daoist Priest, and Transcendent Person
  •  5 Guarding the One
  •  6 On Joy and Anger, Auspicious and Inauspicious Fortune
  •  7 The Sound of Rapidly Plucked Strings in Equilibrium
  •  8 On Life and Studying Life
  •  9 Auspicious Talismans of Great Peace
  •  10 The Natural
  •  11 Harmonizing the Five Elements
  •  12 Issuing Forth Prosperity to Overcome Confinement
  •  13 Halos of the Sun and Moon, and the Guest Who Defiantly Does Not Shine
  •  14 The Arsenal and Tower, Wolf and Fox, General and Cavalry Officials, Chamber and Spearhead Stars
  •  15 The Dragon Is without Sons, False Arts
  •  16 Jade Maiden
  •  17 Writings of the Yellow Emperor, Mysterious Maiden, and Rong Cheng
  •  18 Enriching the Marrow and Cherishing the Essence
  •  19 The Dao Prohibits Sacrificial Tributes to the Dead
  •  20 Disaster Returns to One’s Descendants
  •  21 Great Yin
  •  22 Officials of Earth
  •  23 Officers of Heaven and the Life-Count
  •  24 The Corpse and Corpse People
  •  25 The Compass
  •  26 The Bright Hall
  •  27 Straw Dogs
  •  28 Xi Zhong Made Carts, the Yellow Emperor Made Rooms
  •  29 Great Virtue
  •  30 The Character Zhuo 汋
  •  31 The Ladle
  •  32 Rhymed Words in the Xiang’er Commentary
  •  33 The Title of Laozi’s Book
  • 5 Different Explanations of the Xiang’er Commentary
  • 6 The Xiang’er Commentary and Heshang Gong’s Section and Verse
  •  1 Part 1
  •  2 Part 2
  • 7 Comparison between the Xiang’er Commentary and Suo Dongxuan Edition
  • 8 The Xiang’er Commentary and Scripture of Great Peace
  • 9 Supplement to the Lost Texts of the Xiang’er Commentary
  • 10 Examining Zhang Daoling’s Writings
  • 11 The Nine Precepts and Three Harmonies of the Xiang’er Commentary, with Additional Discussion on the Newly Published Critical Edition of the Scripture of Great Peace
  • 12 Continued Discussion of the Xiang’er Commentary
  •  1 Preface
  •  2 Addendum to manuscript number 6825 in the Stein Catalogue
  •  3 Sun Simiao Citing the Precepts of Xiang’er, with Further Discussion of Xiang’er being Called a Transcendent Person
  •  4 The Nine Practices of the Xiang’er Commentary and Lord Lao’s Visualization Diagram
  •  5 On the Xiang’er Commentary’s “First was the Scripture then the 5,000-Character Classic as the Daoist Numerical System.”
  •  6 The Xiang’er Scripture as Received by the Preceptor of Eminent Mystery
  •  7 Discussing “Do Not Harm the Kingly Breath” in the Twenty-Seven Precepts of Xiang’er and the Scripture of Great Peace
  •  8 A Brief Record of Daoist Writings Citing the Xiang’er Commentary
  •  9 Conclusion
  • 13 Four Points on the Xiang’er Commentary
  •  1 The Jixia Academy and the theory of Essence and Breath
  •  2 The State of Chu and the theory of Proper Breath and Primal Breath
  •  3 Huang-Lao and the Theory of Identical Breath, Profound Breath, and Tyrant Breath
  •  4 The “Five Elements” Silk Text and the School of Rites’ Theory of the Breath of Benevolence, Breath of Righteousness, and Breath of Ritual
  •  5 The Scripture of Great Peace’s theory of Preserving the Primal Breath and Wang Fu’s Theory of the Breath of the Dao
  •  6 The Early Han Mawangdui Recipe for Nourishing Life and the Theory of Contracting Breath as the Root of Zhang Daoling’s Thought
  • Appendices
  • Postscript
  • Bibliography
  • Index.