Chinese Healing Exercises The Tradition of Daoyin 1st Edition by Livia Kohn ISBN 9780824832698 978-0824832698

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ISBN 10:9780824832698

ISBN 13:978-0824832698

Author:Livia Kohn

Daoyin, the traditional Chinese practice of guiding the qi and stretching the body is the forerunner of Qigong, the modern form of exercise that has swept through China and is making increasing inroads in the West. Like other Asian body practices, Daoyin focuses on the body as the main vehicle of attainment; sees health and spiritual transformation as one continuum leading to perfection or self-realization; and works intensely and consciously with the breath and with the conscious guiding of internal energies.

This book 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. After examining the medieval Daoyin Scripture and ways of integrating the practice into Tang Daoist immortality, the work outlines late imperial forms and describes the transformation of the practice in the modern world.

Presenting a rich crop of specific exercises together with historical context and comparative insights, Chinese Healing Exercises is valuable for both specialists and general readers. It provides historical depth and opens concrete details of an important but as yet little-known health practice.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
   Human beings are by nature embodied creatures. The very foundation of our life is the concrete, material reality into which we are born and which we shape…
2. Chapter One: Early Medical Manuscripts
   The earliest systematic and detailed information on Chinese healing exercises comes from ancient medical manuscripts that were excavated over the last twenty years…
3. Chapter Two: Officials, Hermits, and Ecstatics
   Moderation and elementary healing are also at the core of the next sources on healing exercises, from the fourth century C.E., written by literati aristocrats of southern China…
4. Chapter Three: The Exercise Classic
   The first such systematization of healing exercises and routines appears in the Daoyin jing, the only text in the Daoist canon that deals exclusively with physical practices…
5. Chapter Four: Pathways to Immortality
   Bringing the integrative trend visible in the Daoyin jing to full fruition, Daoists and medical masters of the Tang dynasty created a highly complex and intricate system…
6. Chapter Five: Modern Precursors
   A complete new chapter of developments in Chinese healing exercises, and one that would lead directly to their modern adaptation into qigong, commenced with the Song dynasty…
7. Chapter Six: Daoyin Today
   The most obvious place to look for traditional Chinese healing exercises today is modern Chinese qigong—a Communist adaptation of ancient practices for public health…
8. Conclusion
   Over six chapters and many pages we have now pursued the history and unfolding of Chinese healing exercises or Daoyin…

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