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DaoismA Short Bibliography

Fabrizio Pregadio

2016

Daoism — A Short Bibliography

This bibliography is addressed in the first place to students of my courses on Daoism. The earliest version dates from 1998. From time to time I update it, adding new materials and omitting a few of the older ones. The present version contains works dating to 2016. — FP

1. OVERVIEWS AND GENERAL WORKS

Books

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1997. Early Daoist Scriptures. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kaltenmark, Max. 1969. Lao Tzu and Taoism. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Originally published as Lao tseu et le taoïsme (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965).

Kirkland, Russell. 2004. Taoism: The Enduring Tradition. New York and London: Routledge.

Kohn, Livia. 1993. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kohn, Livia, ed. 2000. Daoism Handbook. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Kohn, Livia. 2009. Introducing Daoism. London and New York: Routledge.

Lagerwey, John. 2010. China: A Religious State. Hong Kong: Kong Kong University Press.

Maspero, Henri. 1981. Taoism and Chinese Religion. Translated by Frank A. Kierman, Jr. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. [Originally published as Le Taoïsme et les religions chinoises (Paris: Gallimard, 1971).]

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Miller, James. 2003. Daoism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Oneworld. [Republished as Daoism: A Beginner’s Guide (Oxford: Oneworld, 2008).]

Pregadio, Fabrizio, ed. 2008. The Encyclopedia of Taoism. 2 vols. London and New York: Routledge.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1997. Taoism: Growth of a Religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Originally published as Histoire du Taoïsme des origines au XIVe siècle (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1991).

Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. Originally published as Le corps taoïste: Corps physique, corps social (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1979).

Schipper, Kristofer. 2008. La religion de la Chine: La tradition vivante. Paris: Fayard.

Articles

Baldrian, Farzeen. 1987. “Taoism: An Overview.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, first edition, 14: 288-306. New York and London: Macmillan.

Barrett, T.H. 2000. “Daoism: A Historical Narrative.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, xviii-xxvii. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2005. “Daoism: An Overview.” In Lindsay Jones, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, 4: 2176-92. New York and London: Macmillan.

Kirkland, Russell. 2000. “Explaining Daoism: Realities, Cultural Constructs and Emerging Perspectives.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, xi-xviii. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Lagerwey, John. 2005. “Daoist Devotional Life.” In Lindsay Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, 14: 9842-46. New York and London: Macmillan.

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Lagerwey, John. 1987 and 2005. “The Taoist Religious Community.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, first edition, 14: 306-17; Lindsay Jones, ed., second edition, 4: 2192-202. New York and London: Macmillan.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2016. Religious Daoism”. In Edward N. Zalta, ed., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. <plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism-religion/>.

Schipper, Kristofer. 2000. “The Story of the Way.” In Stephen Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, 33-55. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.

Seidel, Anna. 1997. “Taoism: The Unofficial High Religion of China.” Taoist Resources 7.2: 39-72.

Daoist Canon (Daozang ) and Daoist Literature

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1986. “Taoist Literature. Part I: Through the T’ang Dynasty.” In William H. Nienhauser, Jr., ed., The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, 138-52. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Boltz, Judith M. 1986. “Taoist Literature. Part II: Five Dynasties to the Ming.” In William H. Nienhauser, Jr., ed., The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, 152-74. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Boltz, Judith M. 1987 and 2005. “Taoism: Taoist Literature.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, first edition, 14: 317-29; Lindsay Jones, ed., second edition, 4: 2202-12. New York and London: Macmillan.

Boltz, Judith M. 1987. A Survey of Taoist Literature: Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California. Repr. 1995, with corrigenda.

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Lagerwey, John. 2009. “Littérature taoïste et formation du Canon.” In John Lagerwey, ed., Religion et société en Chine ancienne et médiévale, 459-92. Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf / Institute Ricci.

Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds. 2004. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Van der Loon, Piet. 1984. Taoist Books in the Libraries of the Sung Period: A Critical Study and Index. London: Ithaca Press.

Wang Chengwen. 2010. “The Revelation and Classification of Daoist Scriptures.” In John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD), 2: 775-888. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Daoism and Buddhism

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2004, “Daoism and Buddhism.” In Robert E. Buswell, ed., Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 197-201. New York: Macmillan.

Bumbacher, Stephan Peter. 2012. “Early Buddhism in China: Daoist Reactions.” In Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher, eds., The Spread of Buddhism, 203-46. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Mollier, Christine. 2008. Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Robinet, Isabelle. 2004. “De quelques effects du bouddhisme sur la problématique taoïste: Aspects de la confrontation du taoïsme au bouddhisme.” In John Jagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society, 1: 411-516. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Sharf, Robert H. 2002. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

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Wang Youru. 2003. Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking. London: Routledge-Curzon.

Zürcher, Erik. 1980. “Buddhist Influence on Early Taoism: A Survey of Scriptural Evidence.” T’oung Pao 66: 84-147.

Daoist Art and Iconography

Cedzich, Ursula-Angelika. 2005. “Daoist Iconography.” In Lindsay Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, 7: 4331-36. New York and London: Macmillan.

Huang, Shih-shan Susan. 2012. Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Little, Stephen. 2000. Taoism and the Arts of China. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.

Little, Stephen. 2000. “Daoist Art.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 709-46. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Schipper, Kristofer. 2005. “The True Form: Reflections on the Liturgical Basis of Taoist Art.” Sanjiao wenxian 4: 91–113.

Verellen, Franciscus. “The Dynamic Design: Ritual and Contemplative Graphics in Daoist Scriptures.” In Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan, 159-86. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.

Daoism and Literature

Kroll, Paul. 1996. “On ‘Far Roaming.’” Journal of the American Oriental Society 116: 653-69.

Kroll, Paul. 1999. “The Light of Heaven in Medieval Taoist Verse.” Journal of Chinese Religions 27: 1-12.

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Kroll, Paul. 2010. “Daoist Verse and the Quest of the Divine.” In John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD), 2: 953-85. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Schafer, Edward H. 1985. Mirages on the Sea of Time: The Taoist Poetry of Ts’ao T’ang. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1965. L'Empereur Wou des Han dans la legende taoiste: Han Wou-ti nei-tchouan. Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Daoism and Women

See also titles listed in Section 10: “Alchemy: Nüdan (Internal Alchemy for Women)”

Despeux, Catherine. 2000. “Women in Daoism.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 384-412. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Despeux, Catherine, and Livia Kohn. 2003. Women in Daoism. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Daoism and Ecology

Girardot, Norman J., James Miller, and Liu Xiaogan, eds. 2001. Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Goldin, Paul R. 2005. “Why Daoism Is Not Environmentalism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32: 75-87.

Miller, James. 2005. “Ecology and Daoism.” In Lindsay Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, 4: 2635-38. New York and London: Macmillan.

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Daoism Outside China

Jung, Jae-seo. 2000. “Daoism in Korea.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 792-820. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Masuo, Shin’ichirō. 2000. “Daoism in Japan.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 821-42. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Surveys of Daoist Studies

Barrett, T.H. 1987 and 2005. “Taoism: History of Study.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, first edition, 14: 329-32; Lindsay Jones, ed., second edition, 4: 2212-16. New York and London: Macmillan.

Ding Huang. 2000. “The Study of Daoism in China Today.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 765-91. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Kohn, Livia. 2000. “Research on Daoism.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, xxvii-xxxiii. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Seidel, Anna. 1989-90. “Chronicle of Taoist Studies in the West 1950-1990.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 5: 223-347.

Verellen, Franciscus. 1995. “Taoism,” in “Chinese Religions: The State of the Field.” Journal of Asian Studies 54: 322-46.

2. EARLY DAOIST TEXTS

Laozi (Daode jing ): (1) Translations

Chen, Ellen Marie. 1989. The Tao te ching: A New Translation with Commentary. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House.

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Henricks, Robert G. 1989. Lao-Tzu: Te-Tao Ching. A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-wang-tui Texts. New York: Ballantine Books.

Henricks, Robert G. 2000. Lao Tzu’s Tao Te ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ivanhoe, Philip J. 2002. The Daodejing of Laozi. Indianapolis: Hackett.

Izutsu, Toshihiko. 2001. Lao-tzu: The Way and Its Virtue. Tokyo: Keio University Press.

Lau, D. C. 1982. Tao Te Ching. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Mair, Victor. Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

Waley, Arthur. 1934. The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. London: George Allen and Unwin.

Laozi (Daode jing): (2) Studies

Baxter, William H. 1998. “Situating the Language of the Lao-tzu: The Probable Date of the Tao-te-ching.” In Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 231-53. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Boltz, William G. 1993. “Lao tzu Tao te ching.” In Michael Loewe, ed., Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, 269–92. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China and Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.

Chan, Alan K.L. 2000. “The Daode jing and Its Tradition.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 1-29. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Chan, Alan K.L. 2014. “Laozi.” In Edward N. Zalta, ed., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. <plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/laozi/>.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds. 1999. Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Graham, A.C. 1989. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, IL: Open Court. [Pp. 215-35.]

Kohn, Livia, and Michael LaFargue, eds. 1998. Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kohn, Livia. 2008. “The Reception of Laozi.” In Gary D. DeAngelis and Warren G. Frisina, eds., Teaching the Daode Jing, 131-45. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Roth, Harold D. 1999. “The Laozi in the Context of Early Daoist Mystical Praxis.” In Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi, 59-96. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Schwartz, Benjamin. 1985. “The Thought of the Tao-te-ching.” In Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 198-210. Albany: State University of New York Press. [Shorter version of a chapter in The World of Thought in Ancient China, 186-254 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).]

Laozi (Daode jing): (3) Commentaries

Chan, Alan K.L. 1998. “A Tale of Two Commentaries: Ho-shang-kung and Wang Pi on the Lao-tzu.” In Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 89-117. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Chan, Alan K.L. 1991. Two Visions of the Way: A Study of the Wang Pi and Ho-shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao-tzu. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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Lynn, Richard John. 1999. Lao Tzu. The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi. New York: Columbia University Press.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1977. Les commentaires du Tao tö king jusqu’au VIIe siècle. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1998. “Later Commentaries: Textual Polysemy and Syncretistic Interpretations.” In Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 119-42. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1999. “The Diverse Interpretations of the Laozi.” In Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi, 127-59. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Wagner, Rudolf G. 2000. The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Wagner, Rudolf G. 2003. A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Zhuangzi : (1) Translations

Graham, A.C. 1981. Chuang-tzu: The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings. London: Allen and Unwin.

Mair, Victor H. 1994. Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu. New York: Bantam Books.

Watson, Burton. 1968. The Complete Works of Chuang-tzu. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ziporyn, Brook A. 2009. The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett.

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Zhuangzi: (2) Studies

Graham, A.C. 1969-70. “Chuang-tzu’s Essay on Seeing Things as Equal.” History of Religions 9: 137-59.

Graham, A.C. 1989. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, IL: Open Court. [Pp. 170-211, 306-11.]

Liu Xiaogan. 1994. Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies.

Mair, Victor H. 2000. “The Zhuangzi and Its Impact.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 30-52. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1983. “Chuang Tzu et le taoïsme ‘religieux.’” Journal of Chinese Religions 11: 59-105.

Roth, Harold D. 1991. “Who Compiled the Chuang-tzu?” In H. Rosemont, ed., Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts, 79-128. La Salle, IL: Open Court Press.

Roth, Harold D. 2003. A Companion to Angus C. Graham’s Chuang Tzu. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Roth, Harold. 2014. “Zhuangzi.” In Edward N. Zalta, ed., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. <plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/zhuangzi/>.

Huang-Lao and Huainan zi

Larre, Claude. 1982. Le Traité VII du Houai nan tseu: Les esprits légers et subtils animateurs de l’essence. Taipei, Paris, Hong Kong: Institut Ricci.

Le Blanc, Charles, and Rémi Mathieu, eds. 2003. Philosophes taoïstes: II, Huainan zi. Paris: Gallimard.

Major, John S. 1993. Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four and Five of the Huainanzi. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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Major, John S., Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold Roth. 2010. The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China. New York: Columbia University Press.

Yates, Robin D. S. 1997. Five Lost Classics: Tao, Huanglao, and Yin-yang in Han China. New York: Ballantine Books.

Other Studies on Daoist Thought

Assandri, Friederike. 2009. Beyond the Daode jing: Twofold Mystery in Tang Daoism. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Izutsu, Toshihiko. 1983. Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Survey of Key Philosophical Concepts. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.

Kohn, Livia. 1991. Taoist Mystical Philosophy: The Scripture of Western Ascension. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kohn, Livia. 1992. Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Michael, Thomas. 2005. The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Chapter 10: “Teaching without Words.”]

3. HISTORY OF DAOISM

General Perpsectives and Background

See also titles listed in Section 4: “Dao and Cosmos”

Espesset, Grégoire. 2009. “Latter Han Religious Mass Movements and the Early Daoist Church.” In John Lagerwey and Marc

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Kalinowski, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC–220 AD), 2: 1061-1102. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Hendrischke, Barbara. 1992. “The Taoist Utopia of Great Peace.” Oriens Extremus 35: 61-91.

Hendrischke, Barbara. 2004. “The Place of the Scripture on Great Peace in the Formation of Taoism.” In John Jagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society, 1: 249-78. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Hendrischke, Barbara. 2006. The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kaltenmark, Max. 1979. “The Ideology of the T’ai-p’ing ching.” In Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, 19-52. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Lagerwey, John. 1981. Wu-shang pi-yao: Somme taoïste du VIe siècle. Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Raz, Gil. 2012. The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition. London: Routledge.

Seidel, Anna. 1983. “Imperial Treasures and Taoist Sacraments: Taoist Roots in the Apocrypha.” In Michel Strickmann, ed., Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour of Rolf A. Stein, 2: 291-371. Bruxelles: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises.

Seidel, Anna. 1983. “Taoist Messianism.” Numen 31: 161-74.

Stein, Rolf A. 1963. “Remarques sur les mouvements du taoïsme politico-religieux au IIe siècle ap. J.-C.” T’oung pao 50: 1–78.

Stein, Rolf A. 1979. “Religious Taoism and Popular Religion from the Second to Seventh Centuries.” In Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, 53-81. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

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Deification of Laozi

Boltz, Judith M. 1987 and 2005. “Lao-tzu.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, first edition, 8: 454-59; Lindsay Jones, ed., second edition, 5315-20. New York and London: Macmillan.

Graham, A.C. 1998. “The Origins of the Legend of Lao Tan.” In Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 23-40. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kohn, Livia. 1996. “Laozi: Ancient Philosopher, Master of Immortality, and God.” In Donald S. Lopez, ed., Religions of China in Practice, 52-63. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Kohn, Livia. 1998. God of the Dao: Lord Lao in History and Myth. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Kohn, Livia. 1998. “The Lao-tzu Myth.” In Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, 41-62. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Schafer, Edward H. 1997. “The Scripture of the Opening of Heaven by the Most High Lord Lao.” Taoist Resources 7.2: 1-20.

Seidel, Anna. 1969. La divinisation de Lao tseu dans le Taoïsme des Han. Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Seidel, Anna. 1969-70. “The Image of the Perfect Ruler in Early Taoist Messianism: Lao-tzu and Li Hung.” History of Religions 9: 216-47.

Tianshi dao (Way of the Celestial Masters)

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1997. “The Xiang’er Commentary to the Laozi.” In Early Daoist Scriptures, 29-148. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hendrischke, Barbara. 2000. “Early Daoist Movements.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 134-64. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Kleeman, Terry. 2016. Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center.

Kobayashi, Masayoshi 1995. “The Establishment of the Taoist Religion (Tao-chiao) and Its Structure.” Acta Asiatica 68: 19-36.

Kohn, Livia. 2000. “The Northern Celestial Masters.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 283-308. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Mather, Richard B. 1979. “K’ou Ch’ien-chih and the Taoist Theocracy at the Northern Wei Court, 425-451.” In Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, 103-22. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Nickerson, Peter S. 2000. “The Southern Celestial Masters.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 256-82. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Puett, Michael. 2004. “Forming Spirits for the Way: The Cosmology of the Xiang’er commentary to the Laozi.” Journal of Chinese Religions 32: 1-27.

The “Southern Tradition”

Andersen, Poul. 1994. “Talking to the Gods: Visionary Divination in Early Taoism (The Sanhuang Tradition).” Taoist Resources 5.1: 1-24.

Campany, Robert F. 2002. To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong’s Traditions of Divine Transcendents. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ware, James. 1966. Alchemy, Medicine and Religion in the China of A.D. 320: The Nei P’ien of Ko Hung (Pao-p’u tzu). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Shangqing (Highest Clarity)

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1997. “The Upper Scripture of Purple Texts Inscribed by the Spirits.” In Early Daoist Scriptures, 275-372. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Miller, James. 2008. The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China. Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1984. La révélation du Shangqing dans l’histoire du taoïsme. 2 vols. Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Robinet, Isabelle. 2000. “Shangqing: Highest Clarity.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook: 196-224. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Strickmann, Michel. 1977. “The Mao shan Revelations: Taoism and the Aristocracy.” T’oung Pao 63: 1-64.

Strickmann, Michel. 1979. “On the Alchemy of T’ao Hung-ching.” In Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, 123-92. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Strickmann, Michel. 1981. Le Taoïsme du Mao Chan: Chronique d’une révélation. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises.

Lingbao (Numinous Treasure)

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1983. “Sources of the Ling-pao Scriptures.” In Michel Strickmann, ed., Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour of Rolf A. Stein, 2: 434-86. Bruxelles: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises..

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1997. “The Wondrous Scripture of the Upper Chapters on Limitless Salvation.” In Early Daoist Scriptures, 373-438. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Kaltenmark, Max. 1960. “Ling-pao : Note sur un terme du taoïsme religieux.” Mélanges publiés par l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Collège de France 2: 559-88. Paris: Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Collège de France.

Lagerwey, John. 2004. “Deux écrits taoïstes anciens.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 14: 139-171.

Lü, Pengzhi, and Patrick Sigwalt. 2005. “Les textes du Lingbao ancien dans l’histoire du taoïsme.” T’oung Pao 91: 183-209.

Nickerson, Peter S. 1996. “Abridged Codes of Master Lu for the Daoist Community.” In Donald S. Lopez, ed., Religions of China in Practice, 347-59. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Yamada Toshiaki. 2000. “The Lingbao School.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 225-55. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Tang and Five Dynasties

Barrett, Timothy H. 1994. “The Emergence of the Taoist Papacy in the T'ang Dynasty.” Asia Major, Third series, 7: 89-106.

Barrett, T.H. 1996. Taoism under the T’ang: Religion and Empire during the Golden Age of Chinese History. London: Wellsweep Press.

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1994. “Time After Time: Taoist Apocalyptic History and the Founding of the Tang Dynasty.” Asia Major, Third Series, 7: 59-88.

Kohn, Livia, and Russell Kirkland. 2000. “Daoism in the Tang (618-907).” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 339-83. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Verellen, Franciscus. 1989. Du Guangting (850-933): Taoïste de cour à la fin de la Chine médiévale. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises.

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Song Dynasty

Davis, Edward L. 2001. Society and the Supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Hymes, Robert P. 2002. Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Skar, Lowell. 2000. “Ritual Movements, Deity Cults, and the Transformation of Daoism in Song and Yuan Times.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 413-63. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Quanzhen (Complete Reality): Early Period

Goossaert, Vincent. 2001. “The Invention of an Order: Collective Identity in Thirteenth-Century Quanzhen Taoism.” Journal of Chinese Religions 29: 111-38.

Marsone, Pierre. 2001. “Accounts of the Foundation of the Quanzhen Movement: A Hagiographic Treatment of History.” Journal of Chinese Religions 29: 95-110.

Marsone, Pierre. 2010. Wang Chongyang (1113-1170) et la foundation du Quanzhen: Ascètes taoïstes et alchimie intérieure. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises.

Reiter, Florian. 1984-85. “‘Ch’ung-yang Sets Forth his Teachings in Fifteen Discourses’: A Concise Introduction to the Taoist Way of Life of Wang Che.” Monumenta Serica 36: 33-54.

Yao Tao-chung. 2000. “Quanzhen: Complete Perfection.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 567-93. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Ming Dynasty

Berling, Judith A. 1998. “Taoism in Ming Culture.” In The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2, ed. by Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote, 953-86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

De Bruyn, Pierre-Henri. 2000. “Daoism in the Ming (1368-1644).” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 594-622. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Qing Dynasty

Esposito, Monica. 2000. “Daoism in the Qing (1644-1911).” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 623-58. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Esposito, Monica. 2004. “The Longmen School and Its Controversial History during the Qing Dynasty.” In John Jagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society, 2: 621-98. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Esposito, Monica. 2014. Facets of Qing Daoism. Wil (Switzerland): UniversityMedia.

Mori Yuria. 2002. “Identity and Lineage: The Taiyi jinhua zongzhi and the Spirit-Writing Cult to Patriarch Lü in Qing China.” In Livia Kohn and Harold D. Roth, eds., Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual, 165-84. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Modern and Contemporary Daoism

Lai, Chi-Tim. 2003. “Daoism in China Today, 1980-2002.” The China Quarterly 174: 413-27. [Also published in Daniel L. Overmyer, ed., Religion in China Today, 107-121 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).]

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Overmyer, Daniel L., ed. 2003. Religion in China Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Saso, Michael. 2000. Taoist Master Chuang. Second edition. Eldorado Springs, CO: Sacred Mountain Press.

4. DAO AND COSMOS

Background and General Perspectives

Csikszentmihalyi, Mark. 2000. “Han Cosmology and Mantic Practices.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 53-73. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

DeWoskin, Kenneth. 1983. Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China. New York: Columbia University Press.


Harper, Donald J. 1999. “Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought.” In Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds., The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins to 221 B.C., 813-84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kalinowski, Marc. 2004. “Technical Traditions in Ancient China and Shushu Culture in Chinese Religion.” In John Jagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society, 1: 223-48. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Ngo Van Xuyet. 1976. Divination, magie et politique dans la Chine ancienne. Essai suivi de la traduction des “Biographies des Magiciens” tirées de l’“Histoire des Han postérieurs.” Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Sakade Yoshinobu. 2000. “Divination as Daoist Practice.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 541-66. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Cosmogony

Girardot, Norman J. 1983. Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hun-tun). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kaltenmark, Max. 1959. “La naissance du monde en Chine.” In La naissance du monde (Sources orientales 1), 453-68. Paris: Editions du Seuil.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1994. “Primus movens et création récurrente.” Taoist Resources, 5.2: 29–70.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1995. “Un, deux, trois: Les différentes modalités de l’Un et sa dynamique.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, 8: 175-220.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1997. “Genèses: Au début, il n’y a pas d’avant.” In Jacques Gernet and Marc Kalinowski, eds., En suivant la Voie Royale: Mélanges en hommage à Léon Vandermeersch, 121-40. Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Robinet, Isabelle. 2002. “Genesis and Pre-Cosmic Eras in Daoism." In Lee Cheuk Yin and Chan Man Sing, eds., Daoyuan binfen lu

[A Daoist Florilegium: A Festschrift Dedicated to Professor Liu Ts’un-yan on His Eighty-Fifth Birthday], 144-84. Hong Kong: Shangwu yinshuguan.

Cosmology

Graham, A.C. 1986. Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking. Singapore: The Institute of East Asian Philosophies.

Graham, A.C. 1989. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, IL: Open Court. [“Correlative Thinking and Correlative Cosmos-Building,” pp. 319-25.]

Kalinowski, Marc. 1991. Cosmologie et divination dans la Chine ancienne: Le Compendium des Cinq Agents (Wuxing dayi, VIe siècle). Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

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Needham, Joseph. 1956. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. II: History of Scientific Thought. With the research assistance of Wang Ling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [“The Fundamental Ideas of Chinese Science,” pp. 216-345.]

Robinet, Isabelle. 2011. “Role and Meaning of Numbers in Taoist Cosmology and Alchemy.” In The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy, 45-73. Mountain View, CA: Golden Elixir Press. [Originally published as “Le rôle et le sens des nombres dans la cosmologie et l’alchimie taoïstes,” Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 16: 93-120.]

Schipper, Kristopher, and Wang Hsiu-huei. 1986. “Progressive and Regressive Time Cycles in Taoist Ritual.” In J. T. Fraser, N. Lawrence, and F. C. Haber, eds., Time, Science, and Society in China and the West (The Study of Time, V), 185-205. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Schwartz, Benjamin. 1985. The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [“Correlative Cosmology,” pp. 350-82.]

Sivin, Nathan. 1995. “State, Cosmos, and Body in the Last Three Centuries B.C.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 55: 5-37.

Yijing (Book of Changes)


Ho Peng Yoke. 1985. Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [Pp. 34-51: “The System of Yijing.”]

Lynn, Richard John. 1994. The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Shaughnessy, Edward L. 1993. “I ching (Chou i).” In Michael Loewe, ed., Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, 216-28. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China and Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.

Shaughnessy, Edward L. 1996. I Ching: The Classic of Changes. New York: Ballantine.

Wilhelm, Richard. 1950. The I-ching or Book of Changes. New York: Bollingen.

5. DEITIES, RITUALS, AND SACRED SITES

Deities

Boltz, Judith M. 1986. “In Homage to T’ien-fei.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 106: 211-32.

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2010. “Daoist Pantheons.” In John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220–589 AD), 1169-1203. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Cahill, Suzanne E. 1993. Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Kleeman, Terry. 1994. A God’s Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Little, Stephen. 2000. Taoism and the Arts of China. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago. [Pp. 227-311.]

Maspero, Henri. 1981. Taoism and Chinese Religion. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. [Pp. 75-196, 364-72, 431-41.]

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Rituals

Andersen, Poul. 1995. “The Transformation of the Body in Taoist Ritual.” In Jane Marie Law, Religious Reflections on the Human Body, 186-208. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Andersen, Poul. 2001. “Concepts of Meaning in Chinese Ritual.” Cahiers d’Extreme-Asie 12: 155-83.

Benn, Charles D. 1991. The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Benn, Charles D. 2000. “Daoist Ordination and Zhai Rituals in Medieval China.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 309-39. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Boltz, Judith M. 1993. “Not by the Seal of Office Alone: New Weapons in the Battle with the Supernatural.” In P. Ebrey and P. Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T’ang and Sung China, 241-305. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Cedzich, Ursula-Angelika. 1993. “Ghosts and Demons, Law and Order: Grave Quelling Texts and Early Taoist Liturgy.” Taoist Resources 4.2: 23-35.

Dean, Kenneth. 2000. “Daoist Ritual Today.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 659-82. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Hou Ching-lang. 1975. Monnaies d’offrande et la notion de Trésorerie dans la religion chinoise. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises.

Lagerwey, John. 1987. Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History. New York and London: Macmillan.

Lagerwey, John. 2009. “Le rituel taoïste du IIe au VIe siècle.” In John Lagerwey, ed., Religion et société en Chine ancienne et médiévale, 565-600. Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf / Institute Ricci.

Lü Pengzhi. 2010. “Daoist Rituals.” In John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of

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Division (220-589 AD), 2: 1245-1349. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Mollier, Christine. 1997. “La méthode de l’Empereur du Nord du Mont Fengdu: Une tradition exorciste du taoïsme médiéval.” T’oung Pao 83: 329-85.

Nickerson, Peter S. 1994. “Shamans, Demons, Diviners, and Taoists: Conflict and Assimilation in Medieval Chinese Ritual Practice (c. A.D. 100-1000).” Taoist Resources 5.1: 41-66.

Reiter, Florian C., ed. 2009. Foundations of Daoist Ritual: A Berlin Symposium. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Reiter, Florian C., ed. 2011. Exorcism in Daoism: A Berlin Symposium. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1971. “Démonologie chinoise.” In Génies, Anges, et Démons (Sources orientales 8), 405-27. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1974. “The Written Memorial in Taoist Ceremonies.” In Arthur P. Wolf, ed., Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society, 309-24. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1975. Le Fen-teng: Rituel taoïste. Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1985. “Vernacular and Classical Ritual in Taoism.” Journal of Asian Studies 45: 21-57.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Chapter 5: “Ritual.”]

Strickmann, Michel. 2002. Chinese Magical Medicine. Edited by Bernard Faure. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Takimoto, Yūzō, and Liu Hong. 2000. “Daoist Ritual Music.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 747-64. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Writing, Talismans, Registers, and Charts

Bumbacher, Stephen Peter. 2012. Empowered Writing: Exorcistic and Apotropaic Rituals in Medieval China. St Petersburg, FL: Three Pines Press.

Chen Hsiang-ch’un. 1942. “Examples of Charms against Epidemics with Short Explanations.” Folklore Studies 1: 37-54.

Despeux, Catherine. 2000. “Talismans and Sacred Diagrams.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 498-540. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Drexler, Monika. 1994. Daoistische Schriftmagie: Interpretationen zu den Schriftamuletten Fu im Daozang. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.

Lagerwey, John. 1986. “Ecriture et corps divin.” In Charles Malamoud and Jean-Pierre Vernant, eds., Corps des dieux (Le temps de la réflexion, 7), 275-86. Paris: Gallimard.

Legeza, Lazlo. 1975. Tao Magic: The Secret Language of Diagrams and Calligraphy. London: Thames and Hudson.

Mollier, Christine. 2003. “Talismans.” In Marc Kalinowski, ed., Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale: Étude des manuscrits de Dunhuang de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 405–29. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Monasticism and Priesthood

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2011. “The Early Lingbao Scriptures and the Origins of Daoist Monasticism.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 20: 95-124.

Goossaert, Vincent. 2000. Dans les temples de la Chine: Histoire des cultes, vie des communautés. Paris, Albin Michel.

Kim, Sung-hae. 2006. “Daoist Monasticism In Contemporary China.” In James Miller, ed., Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies, 101-22. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press.

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Kohn, Livia. 2001. “Daoist Monastic Discipline: Hygiene, Meals, and Etiquette.” T’oung Pao 87: 153-93.

Kohn, Livia. 2004. The Daoist Monastic Manual: A Translation of the Fengdao kejie. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Lagerwey, John. 1987 and 2005. “Taoist Priesthood.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, 11: 547-50; Lindsay Jones, ed., second edition, 11: 7413-16. New York and London: Macmillan.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Chapter 4: “The Masters of the Gods.”]

Yoshioka Yoshitoyo. 1979. “Taoist Monastic Life.” In Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, 229-52. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Temples and Monasteries

Kohn, Livia. 2000. “A Home for the Immortals: The Layout and Development of Medieval Daoist Monasteries.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53: 79-106.

Shatzman Steinhardt, Nancy. 2000. “Taoist Architecture.” In Stephen Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, 57-75. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.

Shatzman Steinhardt, Nancy. 2005. “Daoist Temple Compounds.” In Lindsay Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion, 13: 9056-58. Second edition. New York and London: Macmillan.

Sacred Geography and Sacred Sites

Hahn, Thomas. 2000. “Daoist Sacred Sites.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 683-708. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Little, Stephen. 2000. Taoism and the Arts of China. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago. [Pp. 147-61.]

Raz, Gil. 2010. “Daoist Sacred Geography.” In John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD), 2: 1399-1442. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Robson, James. 2009. Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue ) in Medieval China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center.

Verellen, Franciscus. 1995. “The Beyond Within: Grotto-Heavens (dongtian ) in Taoist Ritual and Cosmology.” Cahiers d’Extreme Asie 8: 265-90.

6. SOTERIOLOGY

General Perspectives

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1990. “Stages of Transcendence: The Bhūmi Concept of Taoist Scripture.” In Robert E. Buswell, ed., Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, 119-47. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Boltz, Judith M. 1983. “Opening the Gates of Purgatory: A Twelfth-century Meditation Technique for the Salvation of Lost Souls.” In Michel Strickmann, ed., Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour of R.A. Stein, 2: 487-511. Bruxelles: Institute Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises.

Cedzich, Ursula-Angelika. 2001. “Corpse Deliverance, Substitute Bodies, Name Change, and Feigned Death: Aspects of Metamorphosis and Immortality in Early Medieval China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 29: 1-68.

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Chen, Ellen Marie. 1973. “Is there a Doctrine of Physical Immortality in the Tao Te Ching?” History of Religions 12: 231-47.

Lagerwey, John. 1987 and 2005. “Chen-jen.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, first edition, 3: 231-33; Lindsay Jones, ed., second edition, 9: 958-60. New York and London: Macmillan.

Penny, Benjamin. 2000. “Immortality and Transcendence.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 109-33. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Poo, Mu-Chou. 2005. “Afterlife: Chinese Concepts.” In Lindsay Jones, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, 1: 169-72. New York and London: Macmillan.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2004. “The Notion of ‘Form’ and the Ways of Liberation in Daoism.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 14: 95–130.

Puett, Michael. 2004. “The Ascension of the Spirit: Toward a Cultural History of Self-Divinization Movements in Early China.” In John Jagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society, 1: 193-222. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press and Paris: École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1979. “Metamorphosis and Deliverance from the Corpse in Taoism.” History of Religions 19: 37-70.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1986. “The Taoist Immortal: Jesters of Light and Shadow, Heaven and Earth.” Journal of Chinese Religions 13-14: 87-105.

Seidel, Anna. 1987. “Afterlife: Chinese Concepts.” In Mircea Eliade, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion, 1: 124-27. New York and London: Macmillan.

Seidel, Anna. 1987. “Post-mortem Immortality, or: the Taoist Resurrection of the Body.” In S. Shaked, D. Shulman, and G. G. Stroumsa, eds., Gilgul: Essays on Transformation, Revolution and Permanence in the History of Religions, 223-37. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Immortals and Hagiography

Berkowitz, Alan J. 1996. “Record of Occultists.” In Donald S. Lopez, ed., Religions of China in Practice, 446-70. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Bumbacher, Stephan Peter. 2000. The Fragments of the Daoxue zhuan: Critical Edition, Translation and Analysis of a Medieval Collection of Daoist Biographies. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Cahill, Suzanne E. 2006. Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood: “Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled city,” by Du Guangting (850-933). Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Campany, Robert F. 2002. To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong’s Traditions of Divine Transcendents. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Campany, Robert F. 2009. Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Kaltenmark, Max. 1953. Le Lie-sien tchouan (Biographies légendaires des Immortels taoïstes de l’antiquité). Pékin: Université de Paris, Publications du Centre d’Études Sinologiques de Pékin.

Katz, Paul R. 1999. Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Ethics, Morals, Precepts

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2010. “Imagining Community: Family Values and Morality in the Lingbao Scriptures.” In Alan K.L. Chan and Yuet-Keung Lo, eds., Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China, 203-26. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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Csikszentmihalyi, Mark. 2009. “Ethics and Self-Cultivation Practice in Early China.” In John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC–220 AD), 519-42. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Hendrischke, Barbara. 1991. “The Concept of Inherited Evil in the Taiping jing.” East Asian History 2: 1-30.

Kleeman, Terry. 1991. “Taoist Ethics.” In John Carman and Mark Juergensmayer, eds., A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics, 162-95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kohn, Livia. 2004. Cosmos and Community: The Ethical Dimension of Daoism. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Lagerwey, John. 2007. “Evil and Its Treatment in Early Taoism.” In Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, and Hendrik M. Vroom, eds., Probing the Depths of Evil and Good: Multireligious Views and Case Studies, 73-86. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi.

Lai, Chi-Tim. 2010. “Illness, Healing, and Morality in Early Heavenly Master Daoism.” In Alan K.L. Chan and Yuet-Keung Lo, eds., Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China, 173-201. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Mollier, Christine. 2006. “Visions of Evil: Demonology and Orthodoxy in Early Daoism.” In Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan, 74-100. London and New York: Routledge.

Schipper, Kristofer. 2001. “Daoist Ecology: The Inner Transformation. A Study of the Precepts of the Early Daoist Ecclesia.” In Norman J. Girardot, James Miller, and Liu Xiaogan, eds., Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape, 79-93. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Press.

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7. VIEWS OF THE HUMAN BEING

Despeux, Catherine. 1996. “Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d’identité.” L’Homme 137: 87-118.

Despeux, Catherine. 2005. “Visual Representations of the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts from the Song to the Qing Period (Tenth to Nineteenth Century).” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 1: 10-52.

Huang, Shih-shan Susan. 2010, 2011. “Daoist Imagery of Body and Cosmos.” Part 1: “Body Gods and Starry Travel”; part 2: “Body Worms and Internal Alchemy.” Journal of Daoist Studies 3: 57-90; 4: 32-62.

Ishida, Hidemi. 1989. “Body and Mind: The Chinese Perspective.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 41-71. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Kohn, Livia. 1991. “Taoist Visions of the Body.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 18: 227-52.

Lévi, Jean. 1989. “The Body: The Daoists’ Coat of Arms.” In Michel Feher et al., eds., Fragments for a History of the Human Body, 105–26. New York: Zone.

Lewis, Mark Ed. 2006. The Construction of Space in Early China. State University of New York Press. [Chapter 1: “The Human Body.”]

Neswald, Sara Elaine. 2009. “Internal Landscapes.” In Livia Kohn and Robin R. Wang, eds., Internal Alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality, 27-52. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. Forthcoming. “The Alchemical Body in Daoism.” In Manuel Vasquez and Vasudha Narayana, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Material Religion. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Saso, Michael. 1997. “The Taoist Body and Cosmic Prayer.” In Sarah Coakley, ed., Religion and the Body, 231-47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1978. “The Taoist Body.” History of Religions 17: 355-81.

Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. Originally published as Le corps taoïste: Corps physique, corps social (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1979).

Sivin, Nathan. 1995. “State, Cosmos, and Body in the Last Three Centuries B.C.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 55: 5-37.

8. “NOURISHING LIFE” (YANGSHENG )

General Studies

Despeux, Catherine. 2009. “Culture de soi et pratiques d’immortalité dans la Chine antique des Royaumes combattants aux Han.” In John Lagerwey, ed., Religion et société en Chine ancienne et médiévale, 241-75. Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf / Institute Ricci.

Despeux, Catherine. 2009. “Pratiques bouddhiques et taoïques du IIIe au VIe siècle (221-581).” In John Lagerwey, ed., Religion et société en Chine ancienne et médiévale, 643-83. Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf / Institute Ricci.

Engelhardt, Ute. 2000. “Longevity Techniques and Chinese Medicine.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 74-108. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Eskildsen, Stephen. 1998. Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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Harper, Donald J. 1998. Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts. London and New York: Kegan Paul International.

Kohn, Livia, ed. 1989. Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Kohn, Livia. 2012. A Sourcebook in Chinese Longevity. St. Petersburg, FL: Three Pines Press.

Maspero, Henri. 1981. Taoism and Chinese Religion. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. [Pp. 443-554. This section originally published as “Les procédés de nourrir le principe vital dans la religion taoïste ancienne,” Journal Asiatique, 229 (1937): 177-252, 353-430.]

Yangsheng Practices

Campany, Robert F. 2005. “The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China.” T’oung Pao 91: 1-57.

Despeux, Catherine. 1981. Taiki k’uan: Technique de combat, technique de longue vie. Paris: Guy Trédaniel.

Despeux, Catherine. 1989. “Gymnastics: The Ancient Tradition.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 225-61. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Engelhardt, Ute. 1989. “Qi for Life: Longevity in the Tang.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 263-96. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Kohn, Livia. 2008. Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Kohn, Livia. 2012. A Source Book in Chinese Longevity. Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press.

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Miura Kunio. 1989. “The Revival of Qi: Qigong in Contemporary China.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 331-62. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Palmer, David A. 2006. Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China. New York: Columbia University Press.

Raz, Gil. 2008. “The Way of the Yellow and the Red: Re-examining the Sexual Initiation Rite of Celestial Master Daoism.” Nan Nü 10: 86-120.

Raz, Gil. 2013. “Imbibing the Universe: Methods of Ingesting the Five Sprouts.” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 7: 65-100.

9. MEDITATION

Inner Gods

Lagerwey, John. 2004. “Deux écrits taoïstes anciens.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 14: 139-171.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2005. “Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy.” In Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoist Books and Daoist Histories: Essays in Honour of Emeritus Professor Liu Ts’un-yan.

Puett, Michael. 2010. “Becoming Laozi: Cultivating and Visualizing Spirits in Early Medieval China.” Asia Major, Third Series, 23: 223-52.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1993. Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity. Albany: State University of New York Press. [Chapter 2.]

Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Chapters 6 and 8.]

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Schipper, Kristofer. 1995. “The Inner World of the Laozi zhongjing.” In Huang Chun-chieh and Erik Zürcher, eds., Time and Space in Chinese Culture, 114-31. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Shangqing Practices

Andersen, Poul. 1989-90. “The Practice of Bugang.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 5: 15-53.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1976. “Randonnées extatiques des taoïstes dans les astres.” Monumenta Serica 32: 159-273.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1989. “Visualization and Ecstatic Flight in Shangqing Taoism.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 159-91. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1993. Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity. Albany: State University of New York Press.

“Guarding the One” and “Guarding the Three Ones”

Andersen, Poul. 1979. The Method of Holding the Three Ones: A Taoist Manual of Meditation of the Fourth Century A.D. London and Malmö: Curzon Press.

Kohn, Livia. 1989. “Guarding the One: Concentrative Meditation in Taoism.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 125-58. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1993. Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity. Albany: State University of New York Press. [Chapter 4.]

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“Inner Training” (Neiye ) and Early Practices

Graziani, Romain. 2009. “The Subject and the Sovereign: Exploring the Self in Early Chinese Self-Cultivation.” In John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, eds., Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD), 459-517. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Roth, Harold D. 1996. “The Inner Cultivation Tradition of Early Daoism.” In Donald S. Lopez, ed., Religions of China in Practice, 123-48. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Roth, Harold D. 1997. “Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Taoism.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60: 295-314.

Roth, Harold D. 1999. Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-Yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. Columbia University Press.

Concentration and Contemplation

Kohn, Livia. 1989. “Taoist Insight Meditation: the Tang Practice of Neiguan.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 193-224. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan.

Kohn, Livia. 2010. Sitting in Oblivion: The Heart of Daoist Meditation. Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press. [Revised and enlarged edition of Seven Steps to the Tao: Sima Chengzhen’s Zuowanglun (Nettelal: Steyler Verlag, 1987).]

Kohn, Livia. 1992. Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Chapter 5.]

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10. ALCHEMY

Waidan (External Alchemy)

Ho Peng Yoke. 1985. Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [Pp. 171-217.]

Ho, Peng Yoke. 2007. Explorations in Daoism: Medicine and Alchemy in Literature. Edited by John P.C. Moffett and Cho Sungwu. London and New Tork: Routledge.

Needham, Joseph. 1974, 1976, 1980. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Parts 2-4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2000. “Elixirs and Alchemy.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 165-95. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2006. Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Sivin, Nathan. 1968. Chinese Alchemy: Preliminary Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sivin, Nathan. 1977. “Chinese Alchemy and the Manipulation of Time.” Isis 67: 513-527. Repr. in Nathan Sivin, ed., Science and Technology in East Asia. Articles from Isis, 1913-1975, 109-122 (New York: Science History Publications, 1977).

Sivin, Nathan. 1980. “The Theoretical Background of Elixir Alchemy.” In Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol. V.2, 210-305. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Strickmann, Michel. 1979. “On the Alchemy of T’ao Hung-ching.” In Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, 123-92. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

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Ware, James. 1966. Alchemy, Medicine and Religion in the China of A.D. 320: The Nei P’ien of Ko Hung (Pao-p’u tzu). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Neidan (Internal Alchemy)

Baldrian-Hussein, Farzeen. 1984. Procédés Secrets du Joyau Magique: Traité d’Alchimie Taoïste du XIe siècle. Paris: Les Deux Océans.

Cleary, Thomas. 1987. Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Crowe, Paul. 2012. “Nature, Motion, and Stillness: Li Daochun’s Vision of the Three Teachings.” Journal of Daoist Studies 5: 61-88.

Crowe, Paul. 2014, “Dao Learning and the Golden Elixir: Shared Paths to Perfection.” Journal of Daoist Studies 7: 88-116.

Despeux, Catherine. 1979. Zhao Bichen: Traité d’Alchimie et de Physiologie taoïste (Weisheng shenglixue mingzhi). Paris: Les Deux Océans.

Despeux, Catherine. 1994. Taoïsme et corps humain: Le Xiuzhentu. Paris: Guy Trédaniel Editeur.

Komjathy, Louis. 2008, 2009. “Mapping the Daoist Body.” Part 1: “The Neijing tu in History”; part 2: “The Text of the Neijing tu.” Journal of Daoist Studies 1: 67-92; 2: 64-108.

Liu, Xun. 2009. Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center.

Liu Yiming [ , 1734-1821]. 2013. Cultivating the Tao: Taoism and Internal Alchemy. The Xiuzhen biannan (ca. 1798). Translated by Fabrizio Pregadio. Mountain View, CA: Golden Elixir Press.

Needham, Joseph. 1983. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 5: Spagyrical Discovery

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and Invention: Physiological Alchemy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2005. “Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy.” In Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan, 121-58. London: Routledge.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2011. The Seal of the Unity of the Three: A Study and Translation of the Cantong qi, the Source of the Taoist Way of the Golden Elixir. Mountian View: Golden Elixir Press.

Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2014. “Destiny, Vital Force, or Existence? On the Meanings of Ming in Daoist Internal Alchemy and Its Relation to Xing or Human Nature.” Daoism: Religion, History and Society (Daojiao yanjiu xuebao ) 6: 157-218.

Pregadio, Fabrizio, and Lowell Skar. 2000. “Inner Alchemy (Neidan).” In Livia Kohn, ed., Daoism Handbook, 464-97. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1989. “Original Contributions of Neidan to Taoism and Chinese Thought.” In Livia Kohn, ed., Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques, 297-330. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Robinet, Isabelle. 1995. Introduction à l’alchimie intérieure taoïste: De l’unité et de la multiplicité. Avec une traduction commentée des Versets de l’éveil à la Vérité. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf.

Robinet, Isabelle. 2011. The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy. Edited and translated by Fabrizio Pregadio. Mountain View, CA: Golden Elixir Press.

Steavu, Dominic. 2015. “Cosmos, Body, and Gestation in Taoist Meditation.” In Creation and Animation: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions, ed. Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu, 186-211. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

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Van Enckevort, P.G.G. 2014. “The Three Treasures: An Enquiry into the Writings of Wu Shouyang.” Journal of Daoist Studies 7: 117-45.

Wang Mu [ ]. 2011. Foundations of Internal Alchemy: The Taoist Practice of Neidan. Translated by Fabrizio Pregadio. Mountain View, CA: Golden Elixir Press. [Originally published as “Wuzhen pian danfa yaozhi” in Wuzhen pian qianjie

(Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1990).]

Zhang, Guangbao. 2009. “History and Early Lineages.” In Livia Kohn and Robin R. Wang, eds., Internal Alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality, 53-72. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Quanzhen Self-Cultivation

Eskildsen, Stephen E. 2004. The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Komjathy, Louis. 2007. Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism. Leyden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

Komjathy, Louis. 2013. The Way of Complete Perfection: A Quanzhen Daoist Anthology. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Nüdan (Internal Alchemy for Women)

Despeux, Catherine. 1990. Immortelles de la Chine ancienne: Taoïsme et alchimie féminine. Puiseaux: Pardès.

Valussi, Elena. 2009. “Blood, Tigers, Dragons: The Physiology of Transcendence for Women.” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 4: 46–85.

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Valussi, Elena. 2009. “Female Alchemy: An Introduction.” In Livia Kohn and Robin R. Wang, eds., Internal Alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality, 141-62. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

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