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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Welch, Holmes. Taoism. Boston : Beacon Press, 1966, c1965 (OCoLC)761210424 |
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| Named Person: | Laozi. |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Holmes Welch |
| ISBN: | 0807059730 9780807059739 |
| OCLC Number: | 5885732 |
| Notes: | Published in 1957 under title: The parting of the way. |
| Description: | 196 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword -- Part One: The problem of Lao Tzu -- Part Two: The Tao Te Ching -- Inaction -- The uncarved block -- Tao -- Seeking the ancestry -- Part Three: The Taoist movement -- The beginnings of Taoism -- The period of syncretism -- The first four centuries A.D.: the interior gods hygiene school -- The Taoist church -- The school of "pure conversation" -- Ko Hung -- After the fourth century: alchemy and hygiene -- The development of the Taoist pantheon -- Taoist church organization -- The Taoist church in politics -- Later philosophical Taoism -- Part Four: Tao today -- Appendix I: The authorship of the Tao Te Ching -- Appendix II: Chronological chart. |
| Series Title: | Beacon paperback, BP 224 |
| Other Titles: | Parting of the way |
| Responsibility: | Holmes Welch. |
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