This paper compares the concept of xu jing in Liu Xie’s Wenxin Diaolong with the ideas of xinzhai zuowang and xushi shengbai in Zhuangzi.It argues that xinzhai zuowang is Zhuangzi’s method for self-cultivation to at...
The concept of"inner sage and outer king"(neisheng waiwang圣外王)first appeared in Zhuangzi,later evolving to become the Confucian Way(Dao道).Daoist sages and Confucian sages are inconsistent in terms of inner sage du...
(by Dominic Steavu,University of Hawaii Press,2019,xiv+370pp.)《三皇文:從地方傳統到制度道教》(The Writ of the Three Sovereigns:From Local Lore to Institutional Daoism)是美國宗教史家多米尼克·史德阿夫(Dominic Steavu)於...
The vitality of biodiversity,an essential pillar of a thriving biosphere,is currently at risk.This paper investigates the potential of ancient philosophies,specifically Confucianism and Daoism,as pathways to mitigate ...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.21lzujbkydx036).
Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)has rich theories and techniques for health maintenance.Its cultural tradition of emphasizing health maintenance is not only related to its medical function of treating injuries and di...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.21lzujbkydx036).
Daoist medicine,a special form of traditional Chinese medicine with distinct Daoist styles,has played an important role in the history of plague control in ancient China.Emerged from the pandemics at the end of the Ha...
Based on Zhu Xi's statement that Laozi's teachings were very cruel,Wang Fuzhi condemned Laozi as a crafty,petty person in his Confucian commentaries.Yet,he had to understand the Laozi or Daodejing sympathetically when...
Though Heidegger became a kind of conceptual companion of comparative philosophers,and a methodological example for interpreters of Daoist philosophy claiming that Zhuangzi or Laozi embodied the overcoming of Western...
In this article,I examine Martin Heidegger’s 1950 lecture/essay“The Thing”(Das Ding)in two ways.First,as a piece influenced by chapter 11 of the Daodejing.And second,as a postwar writing which can be interpreted vi...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, 224 pp., $60 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780231175869.China's Green Religion by James Miller is an environmental wake-up call to not only the people of China, but to the world a...