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.
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Ano de Publicação:2016
Idioma:English
coleção:Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ; Volume 16.
Descrição Física:1 online resource (596 p.)
Observações:Includes index.
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Sumário:
  • 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.