The Chronicles of Tao: The Secret Life of a Taoist Master - Brossura

Ming-Dao, Deng

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062502190 ISBN 13: 9780062502193

Casa editrice: Harperone, 1993

Riassunto

For the first time in one volume—an extraordinary spiritual odyssey of the making of the Taoist master Kwan Saihung. Born into a wealthy family in a remote province of China, Kwan defies his parents' wishes and enters into the rigorous and mysterious discipline of Taoist practice. Renamed "Little Butterfly" by his Taoist masters, he survives the upheaval of the Japanese occupation, and the later the Chinese Revolution, all the while becoming adept in the Taoist arts. Eventually his inner and outer journey lead him to America, where he becomes a Golden Gloves boxer and martial arts instructor.

Part adventure, part parable, Chronicles of Tao travels through a labyrinth of enigmatic Taoist practice, marital arts discipline, and international adventure.

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L'autore:

Deng Ming-Dao is the author of ‘365 Tao’, ‘The Chronicles of Tao’, and ‘Scholar Warrior’. He studied with Taoist master Kwan Saihung for thirteen years.

Product Description:

This introduction to Taoism as chronicled in the secret life of a Taoist master incorporates Deng Ming-Dao's three-volume biography and history of China in the 20th century. Kwan Saihung, born to a noble military family, left his post as under-secretary to Zhou Anlai to follow the last master of a rare ascetic lineage of Taoist teachings. Pushed out of the temple to find the way on his own, Kwan was exiled from China only to land in the ghettos of Pittsburgh and to be beaten on the streets of New York and in the harsh realm of Golden Gloves boxing. The author, to whom Kwan Saihung has transmitted his lineage, spins his master's story in a manner that reads like a novel - part fantastical, part historical.

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• Editore: Harperone
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0062502190
• ISBN 13: 9780062502193
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496