Authors: Ming-dao Deng, Ming-DAO Deng
ISBN-13: 9780062502193, ISBN-10: 0062502190
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: October 1993
Edition: 1st HarperCollins paperback ed
Deng Ming-Dao is the author of eight books, including 365 Tao, Everyday Tao, Scholar Warrior, and Chronicles of Tao. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He studied qigong, philosophy, meditation, and internal martial arts with Taoist master Kwan Saihung for thirteen years, and studied with two other masters before that. He is an award-winning graphic designer and fine artist whose work is in several collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dengs watercolors appear at the beginning of each chapter in this I Ching.
For the first time in one volumethe odyssey of the secret life of a Taoist master.
Author Biography: Deng Ming-Dao is the author of The Wandering Taoist, Seven Bamboo Tablets of the Cloudy Satchel, Gateway to a Vast World, and Scholar Warrior.
An intriguing story . . . evokes both a China that no longer exists and its headlong clash with modern times.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Note on Romanization | 7 | |
1 | The Wandering Taoist | |
1 | The Taishan Festival | 11 |
2 | A Chance Encounter | 18 |
3 | The Guan Family Mansion | 25 |
4 | The Mischievous Student | 30 |
5 | Journey with Two Acolytes | 40 |
6 | Entering Another World | 46 |
7 | The Grand Mountains | 50 |
8 | Learning from the Natural World | 58 |
9 | Immortals | 68 |
10 | Turning Point at Twelve | 77 |
11 | Wudangshan | 84 |
12 | The Grand Master Challenges Saihung | 91 |
13 | A Decision Made Alone | 101 |
14 | Internal Alchemy | 111 |
15 | War | 123 |
16 | Homecoming | 132 |
17 | The Labyrinth | 137 |
18 | Temptation and Knowledge | 144 |
19 | Internal Gazing | 154 |
2 | Seven Bamboo Tablets of the Cloudy Satchel | |
20 | Master and Student | 161 |
21 | Two Butterflies | 184 |
22 | Nocturnal Lessons | 201 |
23 | A Quest | 212 |
24 | Shanghai | 237 |
25 | Ashes | 263 |
26 | Butterfly Dream | 284 |
27 | The Golden Embryo | 305 |
3 | Gateway to a Vast World | |
28 | Beyond Immortality | 327 |
29 | Contemplating the Void | 344 |
30 | The Hairpin | 349 |
31 | Chinese of Pittsburgh | 354 |
32 | The End of Huashan | 373 |
33 | No Song to Sing | 387 |
34 | Child of Peace | 402 |
35 | Isle of Anonymity | 407 |
36 | Golden Gloves | 419 |
37 | Renunciation | 434 |
38 | Gate of Liberation | 442 |
39 | Perseverance | 458 |
Afterword | 469 |