Chinese Healing Exercises - The Tradition of Daoyin

Informationen zum Autor Livia Kohn, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University. The author or editor of close to sixty books (including the annual Journal of Daoist Studies), she spent ten years in Kyoto doing research. She currently serves as the executive editor of Three Pines Press as well as the Journal of Daoist Studies, runs international conferences, and guides study tours to Japan. Klappentext Explores the different forms of Daoyin in historical sequence, beginning with the early medical manuscripts of the Han dynasty, then moving into its religious adaptation in Highest Clarity Daoism. This work outlines late imperial forms and describes the transformation of the practice in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Explores the different forms of Daoyin in historical sequence! beginning with the early medical manuscripts of the Han dynasty! then moving into its religious adaptation in Highest Clarity Daoism. This work outlines late imperial forms and describes the transformation of the practice in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Livia Kohn
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2008
• EAN: 9780824832346
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3234-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Latitude 20 Book; Latitude 20 Books (Hardcover); A Latitude 20 Book; Latitude 20 Book; Latitude 20 Books (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine