The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping Jing and the Beginnings of Daoism

Barbara Hendrischke

Univ of California Press, 18.03.2015 - 420 Seiten

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 practical manner by instructing men and women how to appease heaven and satisfy earth and thereby reverse the fate that thousands of years of human wrongdoing has brought about. The scripture stems from the beginnings of the Daoist religious movement, when ideas contained in the ancient Laozi were spread with missionary fervor among the population at large. The Taiping jing demonstrates how early Chinese medieval thought arose from the breakdown of the old imperial order and replaced it with a vision of a new, more diverse and fair society that would integrate outsiders—in particular women and people of a non-Chinese background.

Inhalt

• Section: 42
• Section: 55
• Section 48: 67
• One Man and Two Women: 95
• How to Promote the Good and Halt the Wicked: 105
• How to Preserve the Three Essentials: 113
• The Three Needs and the Method of Dealing with: 121
• How to Verify the Trustworthiness of Texts: 136
• An Explanation of the Masters Declaration: 153
• The True Contract: 170
• How to Distinguish between Root and Branches: 180
• Section 66: 188
• How to Enjoy Giving Life Wins Favor with Heaven: 189
• Virtue: 241
• The Composition of the TPJ: 343
• Bibliography: 373
• Index: 393

Autoren-Profil

Barbara Hendrischke is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages at the University of New South Wales. She is author of Wen-tzu--Ein Beitrag zur Problematik und zum Verständnis eines taoistischen Textes and Taiping jing: The Origin and Transmission of the 'Scripture on General Welfare'--The history of an unofficial text. Barbara Hendrischke is Honorary Member of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. She is author of Wen-tzu—Ein Beitrag zur Problematik und zum Verständnis eines taoistischen Textes and Taiping jing: The Origin and Transmission of the ‘Scripture on General Welfare’—The history of an unofficial text.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping Jing and the Beginnings of Daoism; Band 3 von Daoist Classics
• Autor/in: Barbara Hendrischke
• Übersetzt von: Barbara Hendrischke
• Verlag: Univ of California Press, 2015
• ISBN: 0520286286, 9780520286283
• Länge: 420 Seiten