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Bianchi, Ester. "L'Insegnamento tantrico del "Lama cinese" Nenghai (1886-1967) : inquadramento storico e analisi testuale del corpus di Yamântaka-Vajrabhairava." Doctoral thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EPHE5018.
Full textThis work deals with tantric teachings of the so-called ‘Chinese lama’ Nenghai and is connected with the new research field concerned with the spreading of Tibetan Buddhism in modern and contemporary China. It locates this Master’s life and work in the proper historical background, analyses the scriptural cycle which mostly characterises his doctrinal tradition and presents the Italian translation of the Chinese version of a sadhana belonging to the same cycle. The main purpose of this study is to try and clarify the historical, doctrinal and philological aspects of Nenghai’s teachings, particularly focusing on his translations of the Yamantaka-Vajrabhairava tantric corpus. In the Conclusion, I attempt to understand whether the tantric teaching of this Master was influenced by the Chinese Buddhist tradition, both in style and lexicon, and in contents. He was deeply convinced of the fundamental identity of all Buddhist traditions of Asia, but also maintained that it was necessary to integrate them with the methods of tantra. Both in his exoteric works and, in a minor way, in his texts concerning the lower tantras, one finds elements of clear Chinese origin. On the contrary, my analysis of the “Sadhana of the Solitary Deity Yamantaka” suggests that he was very faithful to the Tibetan tradition as far as Anuttarayoga was concerned
Goossaert, Vincent. "La création du taôisme : l'ordre Quanzhen." Paris, EPHE, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997EPHE5019.
Full textChuang, Hung-I. "Les croyances concernant la divinité taoi͏̈ste Xuanwu (Xème-XIIIème siècles)." Paris, EHESS, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994EHES0331.
Full textXUANWU IS A TAOIST DIVINITY. IT WAS DURING THE SONG DYNASTY THAT MOST OF THE LEGENDS AND TEXTS OF TAOIST CANON CONCERNING THIS DIVINITY WERE DEVELOPED. THE TOPIC OF THIS research IS TO STUDY THE LEGENDS WRITTEN ABOUT XUANWU. HIS MIRACULOUS DEEDS AND THE CULT FOLLOWED BY THE EMPERORS. THE TAOIST, THE COMME PEOPLE DURING THE SONG DYNASTY
Lebranchu, Marc. "Les fabriques du taoïsme en Occident : quatre siècles de représentation et de réception du taoïsme en France et en Europe." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP071.
Full textOf all the great religious traditions Taoism is the least known. The aim of this research is to provide a panorama of its representations and its reception in the West, particularly in France and in Europe: to identify its stages of development and its modalities, its vectors and publics. This occurs at a pivotal moment when its spread in the West correlates with an inversion in terms of its public image from negative to positive. This work draws on missionary history, orientalism and sinology. It questions the role played by the various actors and contexts of reception in the fabric of its representations that essentialise a complex and evolving Chinese religious tradition. In a more socio-anthropological approach, this thesis analyzes contemporary modes of diffusion and appropriation through various practices of Chinese origin which respond to a contemporary souci de soi oriented towards individual realization within the world. Using a comparative approach that considers the reception of other Asian traditions in the West and of Taoism in the United States, this study seeks to identify the specific features of the construction of Western Taoism in a postmodern age. This manufacture of Taoism is situated within the movement of the internationalization and globalization of the religious phenomenon and of the dynamics of Anglo-Saxon liberal puritanism and New Age movements. These dynamics bring together the imperatives of well-being and self-realization, individual spiritual quest and questioning of European thought
Hsu, Jui-Kun. "La musique taoi͏̈ste à Tai͏̈wan : la troisième secte révélée par la musique liturgique." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081522.
Full textTaoism is the most widely spread religions belive in taiwan. Until now many researches have been done on the subject as well as in chinese language as in occidental and japonese languages, but very few focuses on one of the most fondamental aspects of the ritual: liturgical music. In this paper, the author first swiftly introduces taoist religion, than focuts out researches on litugical music of a sect that has been ignores until present time. Thanks to his work on the field, he introduses musical transcriptions followed by deep analysis, than he leads acomparison with musical taanscriptions of various taoist sects on the island. He demonstrates there is a third taoist sect in taiwan
Esposito, Monica. "La Porte du Dragon : l'école Longmen du mont Jingai͏̈ et ses pratiques alchimiques d'après le Daozang Xubian (suite au canon taoi͏̈ste)." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070101.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is the study of a taoist school - the longmen and its works such as they have been presented in the Daozang Xubian (continuation of the taoist canon) by Min Yide (1758-1836). The thesis contains an introduction on inner alchemy with a rather philological approach the first and second chapters are consecrated to the history of the longmen school. The third chapter, heart of this thesis, includes a detailed analysis of the main cycle of this school as well as the translation of two texts dealing with women's alchemy. It is followed by an annotated translation of the work which motivated this research : the voice of heart's exchange between the two Lan masters (Erlan Xinhua). Two appendices conclude this thesis by a synoptic analysis 0f the two main collections which were used : continuation of the taoist canon (Daozang Xubaian) and the lamp of the heart of mount Jingai (Jingai Xindeng)
Boutonnet, Olivier. "Le Taoïsme Shangqing et les Religiosités lettrées dans la Chine du VIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEP050.
Full textThe Taoist tradition of Highest Clarity, or Shangqing, was born in the the fourth century from a series of revelations. It rapidly became an independent school on the Maoshan with its own community and corpus. Its spiritual and scriptural heritage inspired the religious life of many scholars of medieval China. As regards this tradition’s situation in the eighth century, a period during which the imperial patronage reached its peak, there are two positions among historians: for some, Shangqing was an independent school which was also able to influence the powers that be; for the others, it did no longer exist per se because it had been absorbed into the Church of the Heavenly Master which controlled investitures and ritual. This dissertation attempts to demonstrate that although Highest Clarity no longer existed in an independent way at that time, it nevertheless remained a tangible reality, both in politics and spirituality
Chenivesse, Sandrine. "Le mont Fengdu : lieu saint taoïste émergé de la géographie de l'au-delà." Paris, EPHE, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995EPHE5036.
Full textBoth a real mountain -- located on the upper Yangzi river near the famous three gorges in the extreme east of Sichuan province -- and the site of a mythical location in Taoist scriptures at the time of six dynasties, the mount Fengdu is, at least since tang dynasty, a celebrated place of pilgrimage. There, people came not only to worship their deceased but also to untie their "knots of death" and then proclaim the vow of living. The holy place that was marked in the past by the legend of two immortals at the time of the Han dynasty, the historical site of Fengdu is known to be the entrance of Taoist hells where souls of the deceased were temporarily consigned to subterranean prisons. It is still today, in spite of its transformation into a type of Disneyland, the place of impressive religious processions. This historical and ethnological study serves as the support of a researched interpretation about the sense of death in china. From several kinds of texts -- Taoist scriptures, mirabilia, local monographies, epigraphy and ethnographic works -- and also from fieldwork, this research tires to retrace the history of this wondrous place, the evolution of the beliefs to which it is linked, and the ritual practices. Among the sources used is the translation and the study of two chapters of the Zhengao, Taoist book which was prompted by some ancient mediumnic revelations about the mythical geography of Fengdu and is considered one of the oddest texts of its epoch, constituting an original contribution. In conclusion, Fengdu appears like a polysemic place that, beyond the gestion of mourning and the need of sacralization of despair, complies with a therapeutic necessity: for the pilgrim who comes there to express his vow of living, the mount Fengdu is the support for healing. Thus, Fengdu is no more only a circuit between the world here below and the netherworld, but also a "discursive place" set up against that which is "not said", where people come to put the uncommunicable into words, -- the traumatic ditch between oneself and the world -- ant to set in order the language of suffering (sorrow)
Millet, Yves. "Jean Grenier et l'esprit du Tao : le non-agir comme raison de l'oeuvre." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010646.
Full textHsu, Li-ling. "Le rituel fachang : un rituel d'exorcisme et de guérison effectué par les maîtres têtes-rouges du nord de Taiwan." Paris, EPHE, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EPHE5029.
Full textThe ritual of fachang, or "ritual of Method", is also called da buyun, or "Great Restoration of the Destiny". This ritual is composed of several smaller rituals, and is performed by Northern Taiwan's Red Head Masters. The masters propose this ritual in cases such as serious illness. The ritual is often performed in the home of those who ask for it and it lasts usually between one or two days. Nowadays, the ritual is less and less performed, and is even endangered, because of socio-economic changes. Now, in place of full rituals, masters perform individual, smaller rituals, without musicians, and without going to people's place. This study deals first with the tradition of Red Head Masters in Northern Taiwan, and second on the performance procedure of the rituals themselves. The last part of the thesis is an analysis of the symbolic dimension of the ritual, as well as the role and function of the Red Head Masters in Taiwan's contemporary society
Larroque, Michel. "La spontanéité." Paris 10, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA100194.
Full textConsciousness implies a cleaving of the individual. Maine de Biran pointed it out by linking consciousness with effort and his thesis seems corroborated by Jacobson’s physiological studies. This dual personality involves a determined actual experience. The conscious man figures an order of instants, but he must cease to coincide with the actually experienced duration and fix its mobility. Dual personality, effort, objective representation of time constitute the will which is the acme of ordinary consciousness. Will is contrary to spontaneity. This term refers to the actual experience of an individual unified by the abolition of all distance from the self and consequently of all effort. It is the natural simplicity which, according to Maine de Biran, characterizes animal life. The individual coincides with duration, but does not think it. This border line experience takes place in different contexts. Our work offers to find it again as a psychological essence underlying hysteria, auto and hetero hypnoses and Zen Buddhism, and mystical theology. Therefrom, we propose an explanation, a partial one at least, of those states. Besides, we are trying to point out a certain identity of psychological structure between those actual experiences which tend to appear dissimilar if we only consider the historical and cultural environments in which they have developed. Contrary to those experiences Raja yoga offers to let out the spirit of Nature by extending up to its extreme limit the dissociation of the being. But this cleaving was already outlined on the level of perception. It constitutes the first break with spontaneity
Gourdain, Christian. "Le tao de la divination : le dieu structural et la théologie de l'unification." Nice, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989NICE2002.
Full textMy monotheist vision borrows from hindouism, judaism, islam and christianity the notion of the structural god. The structural break of the sacrifice of Christ illustrate the principle of contradiction in the historical praxis. The criticisms of the judeo-christian structural god and of the universals made by Robert Jaulin in his book "la paix blanche", are confronted with the tao of divination that the religious languages have inspired me. I expose the phantasm of the origins according to hindouisme, judeo christianity and the greco-latin mythology. The logics of the systematic is presented in the technic of representations based on trigrams and tetragrams. I present all kinds of divinatory mechanisms allowing me to elaborate some analogical reasonings. The dialectical marriage between the thesis and the antithesis is made in the zodiacal unification world. This coming of the millenium of the year 2000 will allow us to analyse the biblical divination in relation with the theology of unification and the different technics of divination ; the tarot, geomancy, astrology and the chinese yiching. The setting of a matrix generative of myths allow me to elaborate a representation of a collective mind of humanity in relation with differents psycho-sociologicals codes
Verellen, Franciscus. "Du Guangting (850-933) : un taoïste de cour et son temps." Paris 7, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA070018.
Full textThe present study of the life and times of Tu Kuang-T'ing is organized as a biographical chronicle with historical digressions and discussions of Tu’s works under their period of compilation. It is based on diverse primary sources, including official and private historiography, collections of literary and religious tales, court memorials and liturgical documents, epigraphy, poetry, and recent archaeological findings in Szechwan province. The biography of Tu itself distinguishes five important phases in his life: the making of the future court Taoist (up to age 25), his service at the court of Emperor Hsi-Tsung at Ch'ang-An (up to age 31), the exile at Ch'eng-Tu (up to age 35), the period of transition between the faltering T'ang dynasty and the foundation of the kingdom of Shu in Szechwan (up to age 43), and, finally, his career at the court of Shu (up to age 75). The text of the first substantial biography of Tu Kuang-T'ing is presented in a collated and annotated edition in the Appendix. It had formed part of the hagiographical collection entitled “Lives of eminent Taoists” by Chia Shan Hsiang in the late eleventh century and survives today only in fragments. The Appendix is followed by a classified bibliography of the 126 works currently identified as ascribed to Tu Kuang-T'ing. The list of principle works cited, finally, gives the full bibliographical details for those works which are cited in abbreviated references in the notes
Hu, Jing. "Imprégnation des écrivains francophones d'origine chinoise par trois sagesses extrême-orientales : Taoïsme, Bouddhisme et Confucianisme." Thesis, Limoges, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIMO0015/document.
Full textThe late 20th century saw the emergence of China as an economic power, but the french-speaking world knows the cultural influence of China for much longer. Since the 80s, many Chinese writers have published in France novels written directly in French that have met a great success. Some of them as Dai Sijie, Ya Ding, Wei-Wei, Chen Ying Shan Sa were born in China, where they have lived all their childhood, their adolescence and sometimes the first part of their adult lives. They managed to break into the french literature through the delicately exotic perfume that was exhaled from their novels. Responsible for Chinese traditional and historical baggage, their works converge on topics such as the collective memory of China's turbulent twentieth century, the contact or the collision of Chinese and Western cultures, the emphasis of Taoist thought, Buddhist and Confucianist, etc. With these original voices, the French language was open to new poetic and showed his ability to tell the complex reality of today's world. Based on this we will develop in this thesis three major research areas, each of which will raise their various problems : What is the position of these chinese migrants writers in a western literary context? What is the impact of the postmodern movement on their writing? What are the aesthetic techniques chosen by these writers to adapt to the mixed cultural situation? What is the influence of asian religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) on chinese migrant writers? Through what channels the spirit of chinese writers is steeped in oriental thoughts? How these writers stand in relation to the ancestral heritage? What role the chinese thoughts play in their literary creation? The quest for the identity of migrant writers. Is there a common route for migrants writers of chinese origin? Where are they in the process of identity reconstruction? What are their literary approaches to a quest for identity? In conclusion we will see how some of the authors of the corpus we studied remained anchored to their origins as part of their literary, and on the contrary how some others knew and even made a point to put the largest possible distance between their origins and literary work. Also some others are on the edge of these two concepts and have a less clear positioning, sometimes even a cyclical one
Chien, Hsia-Lan. "L'étude du mystère (xuanxue) : un mouvement philosophique taoïste pendant la période Wei-Jin (3e-5e siècles de notre ère)." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EPHE5047.
Full textXuanxue has been the product of the Taoist Movement for the period of Wei-Jin. On the decline of the Han dynasty, a kind of taoistic Confucianism was formed, that is to say, some scholars exhibited a certain independent quality in refusing the Confucian doctrine of the periodic appearance of sage, they did no more than repeat Taoism, except for combining it with Confucian ethics. Then the Taoist Movement appeared and gathered great strength in the Wei-Jin period (220-420). Neo-Taoism is the production of times which came along with the emergence of the Taoist Movement, an intellectual movement following the current of history throughout the development of Chinese philosophy: pre-Ch’in, then Confucianism, Neo-Taoism, Buddhist Idealism, Neo- Confucianism (Rationalism), as well as today’s philosophical trends. Primitive Taoism was revitalized after the profound political and intellectual crisis in the Han dynasty, that is to say, the breakdown of Confucian ritualism once borrowed by scholars as an official orthodox religious, philosophical and ethical practice used to explain it to the people and to silence opposition. During the period of Wei Jin, the study of the thought of Lao-Zhouang tended towards Naturalism and became embedded in the Chinese cultural mainstream, thus providing a background for intellectual renewal, a stepping stone for Neo-Taoism
Cui, Binqi. "Religion taoïste et société locale au nord de la Grande Muraille : ethnographie d’un réseau de temples taoïstes en Mandchourie du Nord." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 10, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024PA100032.
Full textThis thesis focuses on a network of Taoist temples centered on the Daode temple erected in the city of Qiqihar, in Heilongjiang in northern China. an ancient temple to the five religions closed in 1947 and reopened in 2014 as a Taoist temple. As well as on the dynamics of interactions between Taoist temples and inhabitants in contemporary times. Through an ethnographic investigation of sixteen months spent on site, its ambition is to describe and analyze life within the temples and in particular the consultations between the Taoist officiants and the faithful, in the light of the socio-political changes experienced by this territory. The study reveals that the Shanhai Pass of the Great Wall in China, historically a border between Manchuria and the Middle Kingdom, is seen today by Taoist monks living in the temples as a "watershed that separates Taoist lineages.” Field observations also show that the cult of the Black Mother, a very important local deity, is at the heart of the network associating Taoist temples with each other throughout Manchuria from the Manchu Empire of the Qing, until contemporary China. The thesis is thus interested in the interactions between the Taoist religion and local shamanism, through the belief in animal Spirits-Immortals xianjia 仙家 and the way in which these exchanges help Taoism to take root locally and shamanism to become institutionalized. These complex dynamics shape the religious landscape of Manchuria
Zhang, Zhu. "Le processus budgétaire dans l’entreprise chinoise à l’épreuve culturelle : Le confucianisme, le taoïsme et le bouddhisme." Paris 9, 2007. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2007PA090004.
Full textThis research interests in the meeting between Chinese culture and the budgeting process. Chinese culture has a great wealth in philosophy in which three main schools are represented: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The literature suggests, on one hand, Chinese people are more flexible and relativist than Western people because of the influence of Taoism and Buddhism. As a matter of fact, they seem less use Western methods which generally consist of pre-establishing a model to reduce uncertainty. On the other hand, Confucianism favours power distance and the virtue of the mankind. Our study has explored consequences of these suggestions in the budgeting process: in the setting up phase, there exists a “Chinese budgeting slack” which relies on mechanisms different from those in Western budgeting slack. And the budget system seems to be applied as a diffusion tool of ideal image of the firm than a monitoring tool in Chinese company. During the postevaluation, it appears that to “manage people and conquer their heart”, objectives appraisal’s rules are clearly insufficient. Chinese socialization rules (Guanxi, face,. . . ) play a regulator role in the appraisal system
Herrou, Adeline. "La "vie entre soi" : les moines taoi͏̈stes aujourd'hui en Chine : étude ethnologique des réseaux monatisques Quanzhen au Shaanxi." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100186.
Full textThe purpose of the ethnological study of the group of monks and nuns residing in Wengong temple, a taoist monastery erected in the town of Hanzhong in central China, is the understanding of the ways of living and thinking of these officiants and their colleagues in Hanzhong region, in Shaanxi province and more globally in China. The first of this research is about presenting various aspects of this temple which at the same time is a town monument, a monastery inhabited by monks, a holy place visited by the faithful and placed under the aegis of the present regime (through the Taoist Association) and also a local sanctuary dedicated to Wengong (Han Yu). Destroyed during the Cultural revolution, this temple in the process of being rebuilt reintegrates the large network woven between the taoist temples. .
Lin, Chen-Yuan. "Le rituel taoïste du sud-est du Fujian." Paris, EPHE, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EPHE5033.
Full textWhat is Daoism? This thesis interprets Daoism from the point of view of its rituals or, more precisely, by looking at Daoism’s core ritual, the Jiao or communal Offering. Basing myself primarily on a Daoist tradition transmitted in the beginning of the nineteenth century from southeastern Fujian (Zhao’an County) to northern Taiwan, the so-called “double gate of the Dao and Methods,” I examine such basic questions as the formation, development, and transformations of this local Daoist tradition, the historical origins and distinctive sectarian particularities of its Jiao, and the mutual interactions between this tradition and local society and between it and the ritual traditions of other localities. Most of the materials studied, some of them newly discovered, come from fieldwork. Using the methods of ethnography and the study of historical texts, I provide a thorough description of local Daoism in northern Taiwan. The aim is to produce a basic picture of one form of local Daoism and, by comparing it with the Daoism of southern Taiwan and Zhao’an, to explore in it both what is typical of Daoist ritual generally and what is particular. In the end, what is real, living Daoism? The main results of my research are as follows: 1) Through a comparative study of the “double gate” in Zhao’an and Taiwan, I discovered significant changes in the meaning of this key term. 2) At the same time, the ritual manuscripts of the “double gate” Offering and the secret instructions associated with them have remained stable. 3) Local society turns to Daoism for its rituals, not its doctrines. The two-gate Offering provides profound insight into the true nature of Daoism
Arghirescu, Diana. "Zhong Yong - Traduction et commentaire herméneutique de la continuité dynamique, source de sens pour la pensée chinoise." Paris 7, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA070020.
Full textThe wish that animates this study is to understand someones of the meaning ressources of the Chinese thinking, starting from the Zhong Yong's (one of the fourth confucianist classics) translation. This lecture in palimpsest begins from the more recent Zhu Xi's interpretation and tries to go back to a possible initial meaning. So the Song commentary is also translated in its entirely and presented as a witness of the ancient text and an integral part of its historical movement of meaning. By correlating Zhong Yong with other essential Chinese classics as Laozi and Yi Jing for exemple, our study intends to bring out not only the confucianist's specifical touch but also the presence of a commun taoist and confucianist canvas, an initial coherence of meaning. From here the interest of this interpretation to illustrate deux simultaneous stratum of coherence (or lecture keys) : a restricted meaning that aims at the world of the society and more particularly at the human behaviour ; and a second fuller one, that contains the first, and refers to a "natural order", to the continuous completeness of the reality
Park, Jungwook. "Les jardins en Extrême-Orient et l'esthétique du tao, du qi, du zen, et du kong : étude comparative." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040019.
Full textI present here the analysis of the Korean gardens through the comparative studies of the oriental garden art. After studying the Chinese and Japanese gardens, I tried to show how the Korean garden could be inscribed in the far-eastern garden art. If the prototype of the Chinese garden is the Taoist garden, this type of Taoist model had not great success in Japan with the exception of Heian period. It was the zen art of garden corresponding to the development of Japanese Buddhism that have evolved until today in Japan. In china, the esthetics of qi had great influence for the garden art. In Korea, we find also zen gardens but is was particularly through the esthetics of kong that architects articulated their creation. At this point, I explained four notions of tao, qi zen, kong. These notions had philosophical, religious and artistic connotations for inspiration of all kind of artistic expression. I tried to see how the garden art can involve these notions and developed the particular esthetics
Marsone, Pierre. "Wang Chongyang (1113-1170) et la fondation du Quanzhen." Paris, EPHE, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EPHE5019.
Full textThe Quanzhen movement is the great movement of the religious revival in modern China. According to tradition, its founder, Wang Chongyang (1113-1170), had a vision of two immortals and later he converted seven disciples, Ma Danyang, Tan Changzhen, Liu Changsheng, Qiu Changchun, Wang Yuyang, Hao Taigu and Ma Danyang's wife, Su Buer who spread the movement throughout North China. Fifty years later, Quanzhen became the main religious movement in the country. Nowadays, the Quanzhen school still plays an important part and cannot be ignored. The first part of the dissertation, the historical part, begins with the study of the primary sources in order to examine the process which transformed Wang's biography into a hagiography. For instance, apparitions, through no more than vague remarks in the founder's works, were transmitted as facts by his favorite disciple Ma Danyang. Next, we investigate the differences between the personalities of the disciples, reappraise their respective roles and point out the internal diversity of the movement before standardization which followed institutionalization. We also examine how the concept of seven disciples as founders was created in more than a century by the tradition. The second part insists on the daoist nature of the movement. We describe the religious life of the movement and examine how the Quanzhen used Buddhist and Confucianist concepts in its daoist teaching. Next, we attempt to set out the theory of inner alchemy which is one of the most important teachings of the Quanzhen monks. We also insist on the spiritual of inner alchemy in the founder's thoughts. Replying to a Japanese theory, the conclusion maintains that the Quanzhen is not a reforming movement similar to Protestantism but rather, if a comparison is necessary, a movement similar to the European mendicant orders
Chiang, Fu-Chen. "Models in Taoist liturgical texts. Typology, Transmission and Usage : a case study of the Guangcheng yizhi and the Guangcheng tradition in modern Sichuan." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5001/document.
Full textThe basic theme of this dissertation is to understand a large collection of Taoist ritual texts from Sichuan, Guangcheng yizhi, first compiled in the 18th century and forming the basis of a living local ritual tradition. The dissertation uses both the historical approach (looking at the history of compiling, printing and using the collection) and fieldwork. The first two chapters introduce the history of Taoism in Sichuan since the Qing dynasty, and of the Guangcheng texts in particular. Then it explores the Guangcheng tradition developing notions such as “Guangcheng Taoist”, and the structure and typology of rituals. It analyses the building of a grand ritual and its “rundown” made of many smaller rites; this sheds light on the mental map of Taoists as they appropriate the shared ritual repertoire of their tradition. Finally chapter 6 analyses the ritual of repayment of life debt (huanshousheng) in the Guangcheng tradition
Graziani, Romain. "De la régence du monde à la souveraineté intérieure : Une étude des quatre chapitres de "L'art de l'esprit"." Paris 7, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA070064.
Full textThis Ph. D dissertation is a philosophical commentary of the four chapters from the early collection of texts entitled the "Guanzi", in which are expounded the ways to attain the perfection of the self through a strict regimen of self-cultivation. This work includes an integral annotated translation and presents a detailed analysis of the central ideas elaborated within these chapters, known as "The Art of the Mind". It also attempts to situate those ideas within the broader development of early Chinese thought, i. E. : in political and medical literature. It focuses primarly on the paradigms of mind, emotions, center and unity in these chapters, and attempts to understand how the "Art of the Mind" enables the transformation of earlier religious practices and beliefs into a natural philosophy that provided a model for the perfection of the human self and the subsequent theories of political power. .
Pietrobon, Xavier. "L'équilibre des opposés : du Taiji quan comme principe d'harmonisation." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100025/document.
Full textIn considering the practice of Taiji quan, a Chinese martial art, this study aims to think about the psychophysical interaction from a point of view including Phenomenology and Taoism. The goal is to question the typical hierarchy between body and mind under a different angle : an activity involving a situation of conflict, of crisis, the fight, in the widest sense of confrontation. Consequently, the debate between the spiritual basis of Taiji quan, that means the Taoism, and what has been thought by phenomenology about psychophysical interaction, allows to think again this relationship with a perspective of harmonization, and thus in a dynamic way. As a martial art, Taiji quan is an art of movement, and this aspect, whose rhythm is given by the model of Chinese conceptual couple yin/yang, allows to develop new modalities in the psychophysical interaction. The analysis of what appears as a true somatic intelligence invites going on the project of rehabilitating body and martial arts in philosophy, aiming to equilibrate opposites that, in the end, are willing to complete each other, participating to each other
Chen, Leyun. "La musique taoïste au Zhejiang : en relation avec la musique bouddhique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL124.
Full textThis study delves into the music daoist of the Zhengyi in Zhejiang, with a special emphasis on its relationship with buddhist music. The research aims to analyze and compare daoist and buddhist musical pieces in order to identify the distinctive characteristics of each, shedding light on the relations and interconnections that have established between them at a specific time and place - a perspective that has been largely overlooked in previous studies. Adding a new dimension to this research, the study also examines the developpement in the professional status of daoist musicians since the 1980s, a period characterized by a resurgence of daois music, spurred by governmental initiatives, particularly under the new Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) project. A methodology has been adopted that combines musical analysis using the Mei Dunhuang software and an ethnographic approach. This latter aspect considers the current practices in the recording and performance of Taoist concerts
Meunier, Marjorie. "Aspects économiques des pratiques religieuses taoïstes contemporaines entre temples et monde séculier (Chine, Europe)." Thesis, Lille 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL12010.
Full textThe rapid growth of Daoism in the Chinese world and beyond questions the economic model at play in these religious organisations. This thesis analyses the economic aspects of this contemporary monastic daoism through the study of basic economic elements, their interactions with each other and with the laity. Results point to an economy based on a religious lineage system, where is transmitted a specialised approach to the master's role of medium between worlds. Those lineages are affiliated to an order organised to promote mobility and networking between them, which oppose each other on their specialised religious activity. Lay ressources on which temples and lignages are funded, depend on the adequacy of the masters’ response to the laity's needs through their services and teachings
Pan, Junliang. "À la recherche de l'unité : religion, société et politique du Haut-Moyen-âge chinois (IIIe-Vie siècles de notre ère), au prisme du phénomène de possesion." Paris, EPHE, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EPHE5012.
Full textPossession represents a wider range of ideas and practices than a separate "religion" referred to by the category of mediumnism. Chapter One identifies ten key terms which provide us with an overview of how people of that time perceived the phenomenon of possession, how they described it and which aspect of the phenomenon they wanted to emphasize. Chapter Two moves to how religious specialists dealt with possession. Demonic possession was considered the main cause of disease. The exorcistic techniques of Chinese native masters, including mediums, masters of recipes and Taoist masters, consist of body movements, meat to expel demons and heal patients. There are also auxiliary elements such as speech acts or talismans which are explanatory factors for specific movements. Buddhism brought to China its own exorcistic approach, with the incantation. As a pattern of interactions between gods and human beings, the possession helps to understand others patterns of the same kind. Seeing ghosts, dreams, amorous encounters between a man and a spirit, children's songs and divine emotional contacts are common themes in the texts of the Six Dynasties and are often linked to the possession. Chapter Three shows how these phenomena shared with the possession fundamental conceptions which constituted the fundamentals of Chinese religion. The conception behind the possession is about the separation of soul and body. However such dichotomous thinking does not mean that the two elements are opposite. They coexist in a symbiotic system. In other words, in Medieval Chinese religion, unity prevails over separation, and it is in this unity that each element finds its raison d'être
Wu, Nengchang. "Rituels, divinités et société locale : une étude sur la tradition des maîtres rituels du Lingying-tang à l’ouest du Fujian." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EPHE5035/document.
Full textRelying mainly on field materials and historical documents, this study examines the tradition of Daoist ritual masters; one of the liveliest religious traditions in South China since the Song Dynasty (960-1279). It is a tradition of exorcism which borrowed many elements from Tantrism; but it is also well integrated into Daoism while revealing subtle relations between Daoism and popular religion. From an ethnographic perspective, ritual masters are an important group of ritual specialists in western Fujian in Southeast China. From a historical point of view, among contemporary ritual masters, we can find many elements that date back to antiquity. Thus the making and mastery of soldiers of the invisible world for exorcising evil beings to save the people is a characteristic feature. The tradition of ritual masters has played an important role not only in the daily life of the people, but also in regional socio-cultural processes. In this regard, the present work studies a myth of “magic warfare” between ritual masters and evil spirits that has found its place in a context of ethnic conflict in western Fujian. It also examines a cult of ritual masters which gave the opportunity for different groups to express their understandings regarding legitimacy, as well as ordination rituals and rituals to hide human souls from evil spirits, that is, life rites which contribute also to the construction of community life
Espesset, Grégoire. "Cosmologie et trifonctionalité dans l'idéologie du "Livre de la Grande paix" (Taiping jing)." Paris 7, 2002. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00670888.
Full textDespite its problematic textual history, the "Book of Great Peace (Taiping jing)" transmitted in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) "Taoist Canon" clearly reflects ideas deeply rooted in the world-view of Han times (206 BC-220 AD). The cohesiveness of its outwardly heterogeneous content resides in the triadic ideology which underlies its cosmological substratum and depicts the whole universe as an arborescent structure derived from the basic "Heaven-Earth-Man" pattern. There is a conflict in this ideology between two forms of triadic logic : (1) a ternary process of decline in which Man has fallen from primordial perfection and (2) a synthetic process of reversion to Unity in which Man embodies the harmonious reuniting of the poles of binarity. The vitalist trifunctionality of the scheme fluctuates accordingly (Part III). .
Jun, Hea Young. "Le " corps " dans l'espace littéraire chez quelques écrivains voyageurs en Extrême-Orient (Tibet, Chine et Japon)." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00743242.
Full textDecossas, Antoine. "La quête spirituelle dans l’œuvre romanesque de François Cheng." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2003.
Full textQuestions of existence are running throughout Cheng’s works, from beginning to end. These questions derive from the three elementary forms of desire which François Cheng tells apart in human : desire to accomplish, desire to exceed and desire to transcend (Five Meditations on Death, p.56). These questions, which can be found unsurprisingly in his novel works, lead his characters to a true spiritual quest, a term we understand as a quest of spirit, and at the same time, as a march from soul to supernature. In our study, we try to analyse all the relevant factors, to show how the author had succeeded in relating the a priori different spiritualities in a coherent way, without neglecting the fact that Cheng’s heros are all rooted in a Chinese culture background, where the basic distinctions between transcendance and immanence, between horizontality and verticality have not been established yet. Because of his fundamental quest on meanings, the hero is irresistibly pushed to go through a progress (both physical and interior), which allows him to reconciliate with himself and with the world, while experiencing a certain kind of transcendance. This quest has resulted in the quest of the female, which is inseparable from him. Because according to Cheng, the women are the ones who excellently lead the men to spirituality. That’s why Cheng’s Eros is a mystical Eros, and is naturally turned into Agape. In summary, the three Pascal rules are unitied in the end of the adventure, the third one does not supress the two others, in contrary, it helps them to full fulfillment. This means that Cheng’s novel works as long as his poetry works, are in fact nothing but a celebration of connection
Du, Qinggang. "Entre Occident et Orient : Henri Michaux et le vide." Paris 8, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA080762.
Full textInfluenced by the wisdoms of orient vacuity, michaux is a poet who researchs in the two kinds of culture. He lives and writes amongthe two vacuity. He opens a long dialog which is, like his body, based on a column absent. In cultivating the field of emptiness, over the two cultures, he indicates a intermediate way of metaphysical liberation and develops a poetic voice of which the effect comes from the energe of lack and vacuity
Kojima, Yosuke. "Approche d’une ontologie de la nature : Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Dôgen." Paris 12, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA120046.
Full textThe theme of this thesis is Nature, or rather Nature alive, which cannot be reduced to the substantial and objective concept of modern philosophy seen as metaphysics. In order to illustrate the meaning of this Nature, we study Merleau-Pontiy’s and Heidegger’s philosophy. Moreover, in order to relativize Western philosophy, we study Taoism and Buddhism, especially the doctrine of Dogen, a japanese zen buddhist of XIIIth century, and also the ideas of japanese philosohpers such as Tetsuro Watsuji and Bin Kimura. We try to clarify the meaning of the word jinen, Sino-Japanese word, which is comparable to the Greek term physis. In fact, the concept of Nature alive that the jinen and the physis indicate is at the origine of ontology, which opens the possibility of a new philosophic path
Kim, Dae-Yeol. "Le symbolisme de la force vitale en Chine ancienne : "modèles" et significations dans l'alchimie taoïste opératoire : études des pratiques alchimiques du Baopuzi neipian." Paris 4, 2000. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01246069v2.
Full textLin, Cheng. "De la réception de Max Weber à la lecture de Weber : le cas de Taiwan (1980-2005) et la question du rapport économico-religieux dans Confucianisme et taoïsme." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0106.
Full textFor a long time the groundwork on Max Weber's reception has been laid upon comments of the professionals from various areas. However, the links between Weber and these professionals have not been noticeable in the past. In other words, should Max Weber be treated as an expert in any specific area? If the answer is negative, can we classify his works based on certain taxonomy scheme? An analysis of Max Weber's reception in Taiwan during the period of 1980 to 2005 shows that there exist epistemological conflicts between this great scholar and the interpreters of his concepts, even if the later consider themselves to be Weber's truthful followers. By way of clarifying Weber's perception of capitalism, protestant ethic, Buddhism, and a study on the comparison of Chinese law and culture, we attempt to capture such conflicts and offer our interpretation of them. Such conflicts, nevertheless, are helpful for understanding Weber's works, as long as we can identify the limitation of the interpreters' perception. Weber's knowledge is therefore nonprofessional in this respect. Such non-professionalism has enabled him to study China from a novel perspective. The same also applies to his investigation into the relationship between religion and economics in China as addressed in the book "Confucianism and Taoism. "
Larochelle, Dominic. "Les traditions taoïstes dans le développement des arts martiaux chinois : un processus de légitimation à travers la quête d'une origine spirituelle." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/46834.
Full textYu, Gustaveson Gina. "Les textes sur la voie du vide : d'après les textes écrits et filmiques du "cycle indien" de Marguerite Duras." Paris 7, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA070131.
Full textMarguerite Duras's texts, both written and cinematic, in the "cycle indien" take us on a journey towards the place of writting, the aim of which is to distroy the former texts already in existance. Through traversing between the written text of Duras's and her love stories, our reading is opened to the "joy of the void"
Zhongying, Lunpa. "L' eau et la montagne dans " Les rêveries" de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les pensée taoïstes." Bordeaux 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR30015.
Full textWe have chosen the last book of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the "Reveries" as the principal materail for the research. And we have also chosen another two works the "Confession" and the "New Heloise". We have found the two important elements in his works : water and hill. Because we beleive that Rousseau try to put his sentiments in the nature and that is easier for him to express his feelings in front of the nature. In the "Reveries", for exemple, the water waves call him to remember the happiness of the passed time. Lying down in the small ship, looking up the sky, going with the stream, with the flots, he let himself go with the water. And he feels that he returns to a baby in a berceau and he wants to get mother's love more and more. In the "New Heloise", the peaceful countryside of the Alpes proves his tention for a free life. And in the "Confessions", the Ermitage surrounded by the hills gives him an oasis. He sees himself more and more clearly. There are the memories. They are waiting for being discovered and regiven a new youth. So Rousseau tries to be transparent with his books. All of this makes us to think about the Taoisme. Return to the nature and the harmonious union between men and the nature are promoted by Lao-tseu, also the Xiaoyao and the self-formation of Tchoang-tseu. With the thematique analyse of textes, our goal is to discover the inner world of the writer and know more about his philosophique theory. Also we want to discover the relesh of the Taoisme on Rousseau. We will see that both of the two philosphies, oriental and occidental, meet unexpectelly and the same feeling on research of the hapiness
Fung, Kwok Chine Bruno. "La pensée schopenhauerienne : une philosohie à deux voies (de l'Europe á l'Asie)." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040108.
Full textThe reflexions contained in this thesis engage not only with the history of philosophy but also with comparative philosophy. Unlike earlier studies of the subject—of which, both in France and abroad, there have been but few—, the present work does not consider Schopenhauer’s thought either as a plain piece of post-Kantianism or as a sort of amalgam of Hinduism and Platonism: rather, its aim is to shed some fresh light on the body of Schopenhauer’s work, basing itself on a critique of earlier interpretations and a new way of doing comparative philosophy. We hope in this way to prove, in the most rigorous and scientific way possible, the value of such a new perspective. In addition, we shall look at Schopenhauer’s philosophy from two points of view: first, from a western viewpoint and in the light of the history of European ideas since antiquity; secondly, from an eastern viewpoint and based on the few ancient texts which are known. Schopenhauer’s thought should not be construed as logic but rather as a form of cosmology: he is not proposing a theory of knowledge but a genuinely universal philosophy. In fact, our reading of Schopenhauer suggests a different conception of cultures and civilizations, which we shall not contrast with or distinguish from one another in a dialectical manner but rather consider them as a single universal whole. We shall suggest that the transcendental logic of the western scheme of thought should be replaced by an immanent logic, which is the scheme of the east; and we shall endeavour to see western thought and eastern thought as continuous with one another
Shao, Nan. "Victor Segalen et la culture chinoise : une conception de la vie et de la mort." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080009/document.
Full textJiang, Yu. "Les fleurs dans le miroir : le féminin dans la culture chinoise et une lecture de la psychanalyse." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA070111.
Full textThe question is often asked by hysterical patients in clinical settings: what is "woman"? How to define and to become a woman? Freud has cleverly avoided answering this question directly, but he invited us to think about it. In fact, he changed the orientation of the question towards woman's desire. Freud was no longer saying, "What is woman?", but " What does woman want? ". He tried to answer this question by developing the theory of the penis envy (penisneid). Then, he pointed out woman's desire as "the dark continent", an unknowable matter. Following Freud, Lacan introduces linguistic theories and "mathemes" in psychoanalysis. With the logic of sexualisation, he brings two radical propositions. One is "There is no sexual rapport", the other "The woman does not exist'. That is to say, a part of woman does not belong to "be" or to "have" the phallus. The relation of the two sexes cannot be written as xRy. Lacan, with philosophical language, has found a special way to formulate this "feminine impossible". So when we talk about "woman" in Chinese language what does resonate in the unconscious? This two "impossibilities", in the East and the West, do they have the same status?The abundant ambiguities in the Chinese language and writing allow flexibility in this expression of impossibility. The Chinese character referring to sound, form and meaning, is a representation of the body, an incarnation of the individual sign, representable by the structure of the Wbius Band. It is an indispensable tool in psychoanalytic practice in China. After the "Dao", the Way, the Say, Taoism as a philosophy and religion proposes the concept of "Wu" (or Vacuum) to consider the feminine. This Vacuum is subtle because it is not the equivalent of "nothing" or of "there is not", but "it produces thousand things. " This concept "Vacuum" initiated by the Laozi, then by Zhuangzi, adopted and developed by the school Ch'an Buddhism. This empty space, it is the place of the feminine, the place of the "reproductive" and even "creative", even though it is not the replica of the Western concept of creation
Hiu, Yunyan. "La pensée de Hanshan Deqing (1546-1623) : une lecture bouddhiste des textes confucéens et taoïstes." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014INAL0014/document.
Full textHanshan Deqing 憨山德清 (1546-1623) is one of the “Four Eminent Buddhist monks” of the late Ming dynasty in China who realized the importance and the necessity of the reconciliation between the three Chinese philosophies: Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. His annotations of the Zhuangzi, of the Daode jing, of the Doctrine of the Mean, of the Great Learning are of seminal importance in the attempt to fusion the three philosophies. He was indeed the first monk to have written so many commentaries of the Taoist and the Confucian classics in order to show that numerous thoughts of these two philosophies originating from China are similar to the ones of Buddhism. He is also the writer of a dissertation that demonstrates the possibility of establishing bridges between the three philosophies, even if he considers Buddhism as superior. Studying closely all his non-Buddhist commentaries and his dissertation about the three philosophies, we noticed that the monk had transformed the Taoist thought and the Confucian thought nearly into Buddhist doctrines, sometimes close to the Mahāyāna, sometimes close to the Hīnayāna, depending on the examined passages. Some Buddhist concepts are very recurrent in his non-Buddhist commentaries. Hanshan Deaing points out that the writers of the Taoist and Confucian classics that he annotates had already sensed the importance of the concepts which are at the heart of the Buddhist mind and enable to reach the enlightenment or the realization of the soteriological practices.Through these commentaries, we can discover Hanshan Deqing’s intention: to make the lettered persons, the Taoists or even the Buddhist disciples themselves aware of the procedures allowing them to reach the Awakening and then to help others beings to be released from their blindness and their attachment to the world
Jun, Hea Young. "Le « corps » dans l’espace littéraire chez quelques écrivains voyageurs en Extrême-Orient (Tibet, Chine et Japon)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20033/document.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to bring light to the complex relationship between the “body” of the traveller and that of the writer, but also the “corpus” of literary work, in so far as we deal with several travel writers in the Far East from the 19th and 20th centuries. It consists of the works of Segalen, Claudel, Loti, Michaux and David-Néel. Their reflections relate at once to oriental ideograms and the “alternative” religions of the Far East (Tibet, China, Japan), notably Taoism and Buddhism, and, in parallel, to confrontations with the otherness of the “body”.For our problematic of literary space we propose three principal axes, which divide the thesis into three parts, analysing the textual space, the “transcendent” space and then the “interior” space.The interest of this work on the “body” under the exotic gaze is measured against the notion of literary space, which is evaluated in an individual process specific to each of the authors
Park, Hye-Jun. "L'espace méditatif dans l'installation contemporaine et son inspiration extrême-orientale : étude de quelques exemples représentatifs." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040201.
Full textThis study attempts to shed some light on the creation of what might be called “meditative spaces” in Contemporary Art, spaces which seem to engender a special state of mind induced by peaceful interiorization. Most of the artists we study are inspired by Far Eastern thought: Kim Ho-deuk, Kim Kichul, Kimsooja, Kim Sung-bae, Yee Sookyung from Korea, Miyanaga Aiko and Yamamoto Motoi from Japan, Wolfgang Laib from Germany, and Tania Mouraud, from France. This meditative space is created by the elaboration of different kinds of sensory environments, often poly-sensory ones, which incite the spectator to immerse themself, leading them thereby to some kind of meditation. What matters here is not only the artist’s idea or concept, but also the care the artist takes to create their work. Care in the creation and performance which, sometimes, uses traditional craft techniques, sometimes wholly different, very original ones. The quality of attention always comes first: it can be seen in their way of proceeding, using slow, repetitive, ascetic movements, which sometimes even look like a ritual. Thus they open Art to a new dimension that could well be called spiritual. From reflection one slowly moves to meditation, and perhaps even—when the spectator joins the artist in his/her intuition—to the very source which gave birth to the work. Fundamental questions are thereby raised, about Life, Death, and Time. Churches and temples are less and less attended today, but many people still look for a kind of place, an “uplifting” open space, or an “inward” one: a meditative space. Will they be able to find it at the gallery or in the museum ?
Espesset, Grégoire. "Cosmologie et trifonctionnalité dans l'idéologie du Livre de la Grande paix (Taiping jing 太平經)." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Diderot - Paris VII, 2002. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00670888.
Full textLiu, Runen. "L'allégorie de "l'incapacité" : la culture du jardin du Jiangnan dans la Chine impériale tardive, l'exemple du Zhuozhengyuan : "Jardin de l'Activité politique d'un Incapable"." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010531.
Full textBloch, Hélène. "Nourrir la vie (yangsheng) au Mont Qingcheng : lieux saints, communautés taoïstes et pratiques d'ascèse dans l'émergence d'un marché de la longévité autour du dieu médecin Yaowang Sun Simiao (Sichuan, Chine populaire)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 10, 2023. http://faraway.parisnanterre.fr/login?url=http://bdr.parisnanterre.fr/theses/intranet/2023/2023PA100143/2023PA100143.pdf.
Full textThis study examines the mutations of a famous Daoist mountain, Mount Qingcheng in Sichuan Province (Southwest PRC), facing the reconfigurations of its economy. Its starting point lies in the trading of longevity knowledge and techniques referred to as "nourishing life" (yangsheng 养生). Yangsheng is a fundamental notion of the Daoist ascetic quest for immortality, and the recuperation of the cultivation methods it entails is typical of the commodification of religions as supervised by the Chinese state since the 1980s. Based on ethnographic surveys and analyses of written sources (local monographs, grey literature, collections of legends, Daoist hagiographies), this study defines the transformations of Mount Qingcheng as a sacred territory and a home for religious communities. Mt. Qingcheng is simultaneously patronized as a pilgrimage space, a heritage site and a Daoist monastic center. First, I outline the religious and social boundaries of the Qingcheng sacred site that came through the Cultural Revolution, and the Sichuan earthquake. Secondly, the issue of longevity practices leads me to dwell on the temple of Medicine King Sun Simiao (Yaowang Sun Simiao 药王孙思邈), a divinized physician from the 7th century. Formerly a village sanctuary, the Yaowang Temple was recently integrated to Daoist Mount Qingcheng. It is now at the heart of the "yangsheng industry" (yangsheng chanye 养生产业), an economic mega-trend developed by regional authorities since 2015. Yaowang Sun Simiao is thus becoming the tutelary figure of a new longevity market, and its temple a telling example of the complex interrelations of economy, religion, politics and society in contemporary China
Durand-Dastès, Vincent. "Littérature narrative et religions chinoises du XIIe au XIXe siècles : Un surnaturel bien de ce monde." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales- INALCO PARIS - LANGUES O', 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01069129.
Full textZhang, Mengxia. "L'influence des trois doctrines chinoises traditionnelles sur le comportement d'achat des femmes chinoises : une application aux produits cosmétiques." Grenoble 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001GRE21016.
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