Professor Brooks of the Warring States Workshop included an interesting article on the Guodian texts as part of his and Taeko Brooks' Warring States Texts. I...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Mar 1, 2001 3:07 pm
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Wang Bi (226-249 A.D.) saw Laozi and Confucius as the two great sages, with a slight superiority for Confucius. So in his commentary on the Dao De Jing he uses...
Thomas
tc23@...
Mar 3, 2001 1:17 pm
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From Wang Bi's introduction to the Dao De Jing (that was preserved in the Daoist Canon): "As a book, the Laozi can almost be covered completely with a single...
Thomas
tc23@...
Mar 4, 2001 10:20 am
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Wang Bi (226-249 A.D.) wrote the most famous commentaries of the Dao De Jing, the Yi Jing. He also wrote an Analects commentary of which only fragments exist....
Thomas
tc23@...
Mar 5, 2001 7:10 pm
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The Australasian Society of Asian & Comparative philosophy is having a conference in Hong Kong in July 12-14 this year with the theme "Comparative Philosophy...
Chad Hansen
chansen@...
Mar 6, 2001 6:50 am
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... De : Chad Hansen ... discussion-->especially on the issues of freedom and spontaneity. To Chad and all, I must say that I find this concept of "new Daoism"...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 6, 2001 4:57 pm
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According to Fung Yu-lan, (History vol.1 P. 174) towards the end of the Han dynasty, the Lao-Zhuang movement replaced the Huang-Lao; interest in then Zhuangzi...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 7, 2001 9:04 pm
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These outsiders of Taoism, the Lao-Zhuang of the late Han dynasty never really died out, as Livia Kohn has pointed out: "Lao-Zhuang begins where philosophical...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 7, 2001 10:08 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the Daoist_Text_Symposium group: Is Daoism o a continuum, ranging from philosophical to religious...
Daoist_Text_Symposium...
Mar 8, 2001 6:50 am
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A great link by Russel Kirkland; http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/pdf/pubs/VARIETIES.pdf "As Harold Roth has put it 'the Lao-Zhuang tradition is actually a...
Thomas
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Mar 8, 2001 2:28 pm
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This may sound silly but here is a coffee cup analogy: the coffee is the self cultivation/meditation core of Daoism; the philosophy is the milk; the religious...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:15 pm
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Hi, I'm new to this list, but I notice no one is mentioning another "variety" of Daoism (including for the vote), namely classical Daoism, or emperical Daoism....
Jim
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Mar 8, 2001 7:17 pm
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I think that it is important to point out that here we discuss the TEXT, not the various practices associated thereto......
shirotsuru@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:48 pm
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I'm sorry if I offended. On the other hand, the texts (pu kua, YECIM, DDJ) are about the practice, and the practice contributes to the understanding of the...
Jim
waldpond@...
Mar 8, 2001 10:52 pm
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... going back to the beginning exactly what 'practise' is indicated in the texts? ... my understanding is that you should post your feelings about the various...
George Henry
gchenry@...
Mar 8, 2001 11:12 pm
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Regarding Appropriates ... I'm new to this list, but I notice no one is mentioning another "variety" of Daoism (including for the vote), namely classical...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Mar 9, 2001 12:53 am
523
The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic (Huangdi neijing) is the major work of ancient Chinese medicine, it's thought to have been written during the Han dynasty...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 9, 2001 7:51 am
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DDJ6: "'The Valley Spirit is undying.' This is mysterious Femininity. The Abode of mysterious Femininity: This is the Root of Heaven and Earth. I seems to...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 9, 2001 2:37 pm
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... YECIM, ... the ... to ... separates the ... the ... Yes. That is exactly what my post was about, as I understand it. The very first words spoken (on the...
Jim
waldpond@...
Mar 9, 2001 8:44 pm
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... work of ... the Han ... Or maybe a little earlier - the dating isn't very accurate from my understanding, with some credible claims as early as 2nd century...
Jim
waldpond@...
Mar 9, 2001 11:10 pm
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... i think that i am missing something here. possibly you meant a later text was attributed to an earlier authority. ... whatever.. it seems to me that *new...
George Henry
gchenry@...
Mar 9, 2001 11:22 pm
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... you are implying/stating that there was some sort of practise.. there was further down the road (path/way) ... as a Chuangist i can agree with the quote.....
George Henry
gchenry@...
Mar 10, 2001 12:10 am
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It is probably not a good time to be discussing the forum's methodology while I am recovering from possible food poisoning, but on the other hand, the computer...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Mar 10, 2001 4:13 am
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... defined, to be ... more ... Why? ... because ... I clearly have commited a great gaffe on this group. I had no idea there was such a wide gulf between...
Jim
waldpond@...
Mar 10, 2001 6:12 am
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It's a crucial article! http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/pubs/pres/TENN97.html The philosophical / religious Taoism distinction that we are so used to...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 10, 2001 9:13 am
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It looks like philosophical Daoism is a Confucian creation! Since the Wei-Jin dynasty Profound Learning "Neo-Taoist" literati like Wang Bi were basically...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 10, 2001 11:16 am
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Rudolf Wagner's view (In: The Craft of a Chinese Commentator, Wang Bi on the Laozi): "In fact, the concept of an 'original' Laozi text with an intrinsically ...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 10, 2001 2:02 pm
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Wing-Tsit Chan in his Source Book in Chinese Philosophy writes that: "Although it has been customary to speak of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu together as Lao-Chuang,...
Thomas
tc266@...
Mar 10, 2001 5:35 pm
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Thomas wrote: It's a crucial article! http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/pubs/pres/TENN97.html The philosophical / religious Taoism distinction that we...
Jim
waldpond@...
Mar 10, 2001 8:42 pm
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Livia Kohn: "Taoism as a philosophy in the Six Dynasties period meant the so-called school of Lao-Chuang, i.e., a mixture of ideas based on the Tao-te-ching...
