Despite its problematic textual history, the Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing) transmitted in the Taoist Canon of the Ming clearly reflects ideas deeply rooted in the world-view of Han times (206 BC-220 AD). The cohesiveness of its outwardly heterogeneous content resides in the triadic ideology which underlies its cosmological substratum and depicts the whole universe as an arborescent structure derived from the basic Heaven-Earth-Man pattern. Two forms of triadic logic conflict in this ideology: a ternary process of decline in which Man has fallen from primordial perfection and a synthetic process of reversion to Unity in which Man embodies the harmonious reuniting of the poles of binarity. The vitalist trifunctionality of the scheme fl...
The yīn yáng 陰陽 and the wǔ xíng 五行 Five Phases cosmological schemes are of utmost importance not onl...
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Le Huainan zi, au niveau cosmologique, cherche à combiner des notions provenant de deux courants de ...
Despite its problematic textual history, the Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing) transmitted in the...
The affection of the Chinese for numerical categories has now become a cliché but the study of Chine...
International audienceThe affection of the Chinese for numerical categories has now become a cliché ...
International audienceThe Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing) marks a turning point in the historic...
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International audienceThe first complete study and translation of the Taiping jing shengjun mizhi (a...
The “Scripture of the Inner Explanation of the Three Heavens” (DZ 1205), in two juan, is a text of t...
The Taiping jing was compiled in the late 6th century by Daoist practitioners who were close to the ...
The system of The Five Cycles and The Six Qi is one of the major cosmological theories of the tradit...
La dynastie des Song du Nord vit des changements extraordinaires que ce soit au niveau politique ou ...
International audienceThe text opening the "Great Peace Part" ("Taiping bu") in the Ming Taoist Cano...
International audienceThis essay provides the first complete study and translation of the Taiping ji...
The yīn yáng 陰陽 and the wǔ xíng 五行 Five Phases cosmological schemes are of utmost importance not onl...
Divine identity and bureaucracy in Ancient China In classical China the model of bureaucratie powe...
Le Huainan zi, au niveau cosmologique, cherche à combiner des notions provenant de deux courants de ...
Despite its problematic textual history, the Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing) transmitted in the...
The affection of the Chinese for numerical categories has now become a cliché but the study of Chine...
International audienceThe affection of the Chinese for numerical categories has now become a cliché ...
International audienceThe Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing) marks a turning point in the historic...
The "two ancient Taoist writings " of the title are the Taishang lingbao wufu xu (DZ 388) and the Ta...
International audienceThe first complete study and translation of the Taiping jing shengjun mizhi (a...
The “Scripture of the Inner Explanation of the Three Heavens” (DZ 1205), in two juan, is a text of t...
The Taiping jing was compiled in the late 6th century by Daoist practitioners who were close to the ...
The system of The Five Cycles and The Six Qi is one of the major cosmological theories of the tradit...
La dynastie des Song du Nord vit des changements extraordinaires que ce soit au niveau politique ou ...
International audienceThe text opening the "Great Peace Part" ("Taiping bu") in the Ming Taoist Cano...
International audienceThis essay provides the first complete study and translation of the Taiping ji...
The yīn yáng 陰陽 and the wǔ xíng 五行 Five Phases cosmological schemes are of utmost importance not onl...
Divine identity and bureaucracy in Ancient China In classical China the model of bureaucratie powe...
Le Huainan zi, au niveau cosmologique, cherche à combiner des notions provenant de deux courants de ...