Taoism : the parting of the way
- Title
- Taoism : the parting of the way / Holmes Welch.
- Published by
- Boston : Beacon Press, 1966, ©1965.
- Author
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Details
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- Description
- 196 pages; 21 cm.
- Series statement
- Beacon paperback BP 224
- Uniform title
- Beacon paperbacks ; 224.
- Alternative title
- Parting of the way
- Subject
- Contents
- Foreword -- Part One: The problem of Lao Tzu -- Part Two: The Tao Te Ching -- Inaction -- The uncarved block -- Tao -- Seeking the ancestry -- Part Three: The Taoist movement -- The beginnings of Taoism -- The period of syncretism -- The first four centuries A.D.: the interior gods hygiene school -- The Taoist church -- The school of "pure conversation" -- Ko Hung -- After the fourth century: alchemy and hygiene -- The development of the Taoist pantheon -- Taoist church organization -- The Taoist church in politics -- Later philosophical Taoism -- Part Four: Tao today -- Appendix I: The authorship of the Tao Te Ching -- Appendix II: Chronological chart.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Published in 1957 under title: The parting of the way.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 186-188.