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Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-Transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism

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Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-Transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism - Komjathy, Louis
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Employing a comparative religious studies approach, this book provides a comprehensive discussion of early Quanzhen as a Daoist religious movement charactized by asceticism, alchemical transformation, and mystical experiencing. Emphasis is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, religious praxis, and religious experience.

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Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-Transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism 2007, Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

ISBN-13: 9789004160385

Hardcover