Contents; Preface; Conventions; Introduction; Section 41. How to Distinguish between Poor and Rich; Section 42. One Man and Two Women; Section 43. How to Promote the Good and Halt the Wicked; Section 44. How to Preserve the Three Essentials; Section 45. The Three Needs and the Method of [Dealing with]Auspicious and Ominous Events; Section 46. You Must Not Serve the Dead More Than the Living; Section 47. How to Verify the Trustworthiness of Texts and Writings; Section 48. An Explanation of the Reception and Transmission[of Evil] in Five Situations.
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Section 50. An Explanation of the Master's DeclarationSection 51. The True Contract; Section 52. How to Work Hard to Do Good; Section 53. How to Distinguish between Root and Branches; Section 54. How to Enjoy Giving Life Wins Favor with Heaven; Section 55. How to Classify Old Texts and Give a Title to theBook; Section 56. How the Nine Groups of Men Disperse CalamitiesInherited from Former Kings; Section 57. How to Examine What Is True and What Is False Dao; S.
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This first Western-language translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or ''Scripture on Great Peace, '' documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism's origins. Barbara Hendrischke, a leading expert on the Taiping jing in the West, has spent twenty-five years on this magisterial translation, which includes notes that contextualize the scripture's political and religious significance. Virtually unknown to scholars until the 1970s, the Taiping jing raises the hope for salvation in a pra.
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Title
Scripture on great peace.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Tai ping jing.
Language (when part of a heading)
English.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Taiping jing and the beginning of Daoism
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Tai ping jing.
Tai ping jing.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Philosophy, Chinese.
Taoism, Early works to 1800.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT-- Spirituality-- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.