Transforming the void : : embryological discourse and reproductive imagery in East Asian religions / / edited by Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu.
Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions considers paths to self-cultivation and salvation that are patterned on human embryological development or procreative imagery in the religions of China and Japan. Focusing on Taoism, Esoteric Buddhism, S...
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| Superior document: | Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ;
Volume 16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (596 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Backdrops and Parallels to Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions / Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu
- 1 Prenatal Infancy Regained: Great Peace (Taiping) Views on Procreation and Life Cycles / Grégoire Espesset
- 2 Conceiving the Embryo of Immortality: “Seed-People” and Sexual Rites in Early Taoism / Christine Mollier
- 3 Cosmos, Body, and Gestation in Taoist Meditation / Dominic Steavu
- 4 Symbolic Pregnancy and the Sexual Identity of Taoist Adepts / Catherine Despeux
- 5 Creation and Its Inversion: Cosmos, Human Being, and Elixir in the Cantong Qi (The Seal of the Unity of the Three) / Fabrizio Pregadio
- 6 On the Effectiveness of Symbols: Women’s Bodies as Mandalas / Brigitte Baptandier
- 7 The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources / Lucia Dolce
- 8 Buddhism Ab Ovo: Aspects of Embryological Discourse in Medieval Japanese Buddhism / Bernard Faure
- 9 “Human Yellow” and Magical Power in Japanese Medieval Tantrism and Culture / Nobumi Iyanaga
- 10 “Lost in the Womb”: Conception, Reproductive Imagery, and Gender in the Writings and Rituals of Japan’s Medieval Holy Men / Anna Andreeva
- 11 Embryology in Early Modern Sōtō Zen Buddhism / Kigensan Licha
- 12 Foetal Buddhahood: From Theory to Practice – Embryological Symbolism in the Autumn Peak Ritual of Haguro Shugendo / Gaynor Sekimori
- Index / Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu.