Taoist Canon, Volume 2 (Replacement Volume) A Historical Companion to the Daozang

Name: Taoist Canon, Volume 2 (Replacement Volume) A Historical Companion to the Daozang
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ISBN: 9780226738130

ISBN-10: 0226738132

ISBN-13: 9780226738130

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kristofer Schipper, Franciscus Verellen

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Taoism remains the only major religion whose canonical texts have not been systematically arranged and made available for study. This long-awaited work, a milestone in Chinese studies, catalogs and describes all existing texts within the Taoist canon. The result will not only make the entire range of existing Taoist texts accessible to scholars of religion, it will open up a crucial resource in the study of the history of China. The vast literature of the Taoist canon, or Daozang, survives in a Ming Dynasty edition of some fifteen hundred different texts. Compiled under imperial auspices and completed in 1445—with a supplement added in 1607—many of the books in the Daozang concern the…

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List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.486