Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.
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Reading Daodejing synthetically -- Modern scholarship on the Daodejing -- Traditions of reading the Daodejing -- The Daos of Laozi and Confucius -- Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing -- The sage and the world -- The sage and the project -- The sage and bad knowledge -- The sage and good knowledge.
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"Thomas Michael's study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao."