Title: Taoism and Chinese religion /
Authors: Maspero, Henri, 1883-1945.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Taoism China; China Religion.
Contents: Chinese religion in its historical development -- The mythology of modern China -- The society and religion of the ancient Chinese and of the modern Tai -- How was Buddhism introduced into China? -- Taoism in Chinese religious beliefs of the Six Dynasties period -- The poet Hsi K'ang and the Club of Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove -- An essay on Taoism in the first centuries A.D. -- How to communicate with the Taoist gods -- Methods of "nourishing the vital principle" in the ancient Taoist religion.