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religion --- Ancient China --- Medieval China --- Taoism --- local religion --- Modern China

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Numismatics --- Coins, Ancient --- Catalogs. --- S17/1200 --- S17/2111 --- China: Art and archaeology--Numismatics --- China: Art and archaeology--Musea and exhibitions: France --- Numismatics - China - Catalogs. --- Coins, Ancient - China - Catalogs.

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the end of the world --- prophecies --- world destruction --- history --- science --- religion --- the Mayans --- december 2012 --- the New Testament --- the Book of Revelation --- Ancient Egypt --- Ancient China --- Nostradamus --- Y2K

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Chinese language --- ancient china. --- ancient chinese religious texts. --- chinese book of wisdom. --- chinese culture. --- chinese philosophy. --- chinese political theory. --- chinese religions. --- chinese spiritual leaders. --- chinese spiritual traditions. --- chinese spirituality. --- chinese virtue. --- chinese way. --- confucius. --- daoism. --- daoist theory. --- eastern religions. --- eastern spiritual traditions. --- eastern spirituality. --- lao tzu. --- laozi. --- religious texts. --- spiritual texts. --- spiritual. --- spirituality. --- tao te ching. --- taoism. --- taoist theory. --- the way and virtue.

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In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 C.E..) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Company's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.

Taoists --- Ge, Hong, --- Taoists - China - Biography --- Ge, Hong, - 284-364. - Shen xian zhuan --- alchemy. --- ancient china. --- archival work. --- ascetics. --- buddhism. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese texts. --- classicism. --- daoism. --- discipline. --- divinity. --- eastern philosophy. --- gymnastics. --- immortals. --- lost texts. --- medicine. --- medieval china. --- meditation. --- mortality. --- nonfiction. --- paranormal. --- philosophy. --- religion. --- sexual discipline. --- sexual practices. --- spirituality. --- supernatural being. --- supernatural powers. --- supernatural. --- taoism. --- to live as long as heaven and earth. --- traditions of the divine transcendents. --- transcend death. --- transcendents. --- transfiguration.