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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Daoism"”.
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On Quanzhen Daoism and the Longmen Lineage: An Institutional History of Monasteries, Lineages, and Ordinations
This thesis examines Quanzhen Daoism, and the Longmen lineage in particular, during the Qing dynasty in China from an institutional perspective. By critically analyzing monasteries, lineages, and texts, this study sheds light on why the notion of lineage is crucial for understanding Qing Daoism. …
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A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays
… discourses, focusing primarily on philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and contemporary physics. Systems theory (the science of complex and self-organising systems) is a secondary focus of the creative work and is used metaphorically in theorising the writing process. The creative work, “A coat of …
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Celebrating the Feminine: Daoist Connections to Contemporary Feminism in China
… depth on the meaning. Thirdly, Confucianism and Daoism were compared in order to provide more context and to show how they differ from each other. Lastly, I will use contemporary feminist figures—such as Li Ruzhen, Qiu Jin, and the “Beijing Five”—as examples to show how Daoism was a precursor to …
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Baiyun guan: the Development and Evolution of a Quanzhen Daoist Temple
… religious sectarianism involving Quanzhen Daoism in Baiyun guan despite ongoing changes in the temple's patrons and in the iconographic program at the site. This dissertation provides an exemplary case study demonstrating the dual nature of the site: the enduring presence of religious …
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Being formless: a Daoist movement practice
… a Daoist movement practice. Based on qi-energy, Daoism, a Chinese ontological study of being, suggests that Dao is the formless changing of in-between being. I explore how the formless nature of Dao informs my own creative practice. I argue that formlessness signifies an uncertain, unexpected, …
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Dispassion and the Good Life: A Study of Stoicism and Zhuangism
… traditions, such as Stoicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and eastern Christianity, it does not seem to hold much appeal to people today. To the modern ear, dispassion is often associated with apathy, which refers to a lack of feeling, motivation, or concern. Because of this association, dispassion …
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The influence of Ancient Chinese Wisdom on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: A study of DAQO
… of Ancient Chinese Wisdom—Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—on the CSR disclosure practices of Chinese Concept Stock companies, focusing on Daqo New Energy. A novel framework aligns these philosophical principles with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) indicators to create a unique CSR …
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John Dewey and an ecological philosophy of religion
… in relation to the self-cultivation doctrines of Daoism and Zen Buddhism, highlighting rich connections between Dewey and Eastern thought; all of these thinkers and schools of thought share Dewey’s overriding concern to restore continuity between facts and values, between knowledge and action, …
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Nature Naturing Ziran in Early Daoist Thinking
… is nature? My thesis shows that ziran in early Daoism offers us an alternative to the modern concept of nature as an object to be controlled and exploited for human purposes. Ziran is the very process of the transformation of dao and things, in which the intimacy of dao, things and humans is …
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Cross-Cultural Leadership Development in China
… all 6 paradigms connect to the principles of Daoism; (iii) Chinese managers’ holistic manner of conceptualising leadership is considered unfocused and vague by Western headquarters; (iv) the lack of alignment in conceptualisations of leadership causes Western headquarters to hesitate in …
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The idea of nature in the Daoist classic of Liezi
The Liezi is regarded the third of the Daoist classics following the Laozi and the Zhuangzi. Dating from the pre-Han period (ca. 4-5 century B.C.) to the Six Dynasties (229-589 A.D.), the Liezi constitutes a rich collection of more than a hundred and forty parables, mystical accounts, and …
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The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi 莊子
<p>The Chinese classic Zhuangzi 莊子 is known for its paradoxicality. Among its more difficult claims is that “the world emerges from emptiness,” such that something (or indeed everything) comes from nothing. Interpreters generally avoid this logical impasse by suggesting, for instance, that the …
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The Zhuangzi and Nourishing Xin: Causes of Strife, Positive Ideals of Caring for Living, and Therapeutic Linguistic Practice
This dissertation seeks to extract the Zhuangzi from a variety of problematic interpretations in English-speaking scholarship. The text has been accused of supporting a variety of moral or epistemic positions, including moral relativism, transcendental mysticism, skepticism, anarchism, and …
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Learning from Maoshan: Temple Construction in Early Medieval China
Maoshan, a range of mountains southeast of Nanjing, has been home to one of China's most influential Daoist temples. One of Maoshan's most famous patriarchs was Tao Hongjing (456-536 CE), a polymath whose wide range of interests included alchemy, genealogy, mapmaking, herbal medicine, and Daoist …
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On the Flow and Structure of Process: An Inquiry into Changes of Things, or Shifts of Systems
<p>This dissertation aims to disrupt the false dichotomy of processes vs. things both systematically and historically. The central task of my dissertation is to establish a process ontology in terms of systems. However, both the separation of things and process and the struggle to reunite them are …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
This dissertation is situated at the intersection of the anthropology of ethics and politics in the context of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). I ground my analysis in a long-standing ethical-political tradition, dating from the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), which sees societal …