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Taoism and Chinese Religion

Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion

by Stephen Eskildsen

A study of ascetic practices in early medieval Taoism, including dietary restriction, celibacy and endurance of hardship. Eskildsen traces how these disciplines were justified and how attitudes to them changed over time.

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