Authors:Kohn, Livia, Wang, Robin R.,  Livia Koh,
Publisher: Three Pines Pre
Keywords: alchemy, internal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-01-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1931483116
ISBN-13: 9781931483117

Internal alchemy (neidan) has been the dominant system of Daoist spiritual practice since the Song dynasty, when it was defined as the complex integration of multiple forms of Daoist self-cultivation. Its practitioners transform body energies into subtle levels of spirit and pure cosmic being, hoping to find illumination by returning to the fundamental order of the cosmos and in the process reconcile physiological training with intellectual speculation. Bringing together the best work of leading scholars in the field, this book provides, for the first time in English, a thorough and easily acc

Author: Livia Koh
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: latitude, book, daoyin, tradition, healing, exercises, chinese
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0824832698
ISBN-13: 9780824832698

Daoyin, the traditional Chinese practice of guiding the qi and stretching the body is the forerunner of Qigong, the modern form of exercise that has swept through China and is making increasing inroads in the West. Like other Asian body practices, Daoyin focuses on the body as the main vehicle of attainment; sees health and spiritual transformation as one continuum leading to perfection or self-realization; and works intensely and consciously with the breath and with the conscious guiding of internal energies. This book explores the different forms of Daoyin in historical sequence, beginning w

Author: Anna Livia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: gender, studies, language, linguistic, uses, envy, literary, pronoun
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2000-11-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195138538
ISBN-13: 9780195138535

Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Livia uses the te

Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Keywords: philosophy, mystical, daoist
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 193148306X
ISBN-13: 9781931483063

Author: Livia Llewellyn
Publisher: Lethe Press
Keywords: amp, horrors, love, tales, desire, engines
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2011-03-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1590213246
ISBN-13: 9781590213247

Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: handbook, der, studies, handbuch, oriental, orientalistik, china, orientalisk, daoism, part
Number of Pages: 954
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $324.00
ISBN-10: 9004112081
ISBN-13: 9789004112087

Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism. The chapters are devoted to either specific periods, or topics such as Women in Daoism, Daoism in Korea and Daoist Ritual Music. Each chapter rigidly deals with a fixed set of aspects, such as history, texts, worldview and practices. Clear markings in the chapters themselves and a detailed index make this volume the most accessible key resource on Daoism past and present.

Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Keywords: culture, chinese, daoism
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1931483000
ISBN-13: 9781931483001

Concise and comprehensive introduction to the Daoist religion, thematically divided into four parts: Ancient Thought, Religious Communities, Spiritual Practices, Modernity. The book offers an integrated vision of the tradition in its historical and cultural context, also placing it into a larger framework of comparative religion. Contains many original sources and useful references for further reading. Great for students, practitioners, and general audiences.