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Comment un ancien moine cistercien, prieur de l'abbaye de Boquen, dont la contestation puis la démission avait défrayé la chronique dans les années 60 et 70, peut-il se retrouver à fonder, en Chine, une auberge taoïste au flanc d'une montagne sacrée ? Les circonstances de la vie y sont certes pour quelque chose, mais tout se passe comme si Bernard Besret, éternel pèlerin de l'absolu, avait retrouvé à travers la sagesse chinoise la patrie spirituelle qu'il avait toujours cherchée.Voici donc les chroniques taoïstes de Bernard Besret : elles nous parlent de la vie quotidienne en Chine, de son propre parcours, de celui d'un ancêtre lointain qui fut jadis évêque en Chine ; elles nous invitent aussi à méditer sur le sens du temps, du corps, du rapport au cosmos... Autant de thèmes qui, au fil d'une plume alerte, nous interrogent sur notre propre vie, et nous enrichissent de connaissances sur cette « étrangeté » qu'est la Chine

Taoists - China - Biography --- Taoism - China --- Ex-clergy - Biography --- Besret, Bernard --- China - Religious life and customs --- Comparative religion --- China --- Taoists --- Taoism --- Ex-clergy

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In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 C.E..) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Company's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.

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