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Taoism and Chinese Religion

Ways to Paradise

The Chinese Quest for Immortality

by Michael Loewe

A study of Han dynasty beliefs about immortality and the afterlife, based on tomb finds such as the Mawangdui banner and on bronze mirrors and texts. Loewe discusses the Queen Mother of the West and the paradises of the immortals.

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