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Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hundun)

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 | #3937675 in Books |  Three Pines Press |  2009-08-31 |  2009-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.69 x.60 x7.44l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 286 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| it could easily be given a pass|By Scott P. Bradley|Doubtless this book is a must read for sinologists, if only to have done one’s necessary homework. For the unobliged layperson, on the other hand, it could easily be given a pass. Its principal focus is the mythological antecedents of hun-dun—primordial chaos. One succinct paragraph could have easily covered this t|About the Author|N. J. Girardot is a graduate of the University of Chicago under the great Mircea Eliade and has for many years served as professor of East Asian religions at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism examines some of the earliest texts associated with the Daoist tradition (primarily the Daode jing, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi) from the outlook of the comparative history of religions and finds a kind of thematic and soteriological unity rooted in the mythological symbolism of hundun, the primal chaos being and principle that is foundational for the philosophy and practice of the Dao as creatio continua in cos...

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