Livia Kohn
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Livia Kohn's Degrees
- PhD Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Masters Chinese Studies University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Livia Kohn is an emeritus professor of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University, specializing in studies of Taoism . Kohn completed her Ph.D. at Bonn University in 1980. She has held academic positions at Kyoto University , University of Michigan , and Boston University . Kohn has authored or edited over 50 books and many articles on Daoism. She has served as an executive editor of Three Pines Press since 2000 and the Journal of Daoist Studies since 2008. Kohn is a multilingual scholar and has written or translated works in German, English, Chinese, and Japanese.
Livia Kohn's Published Works
Published Works
- A Survey of Taoist Literature: Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries (1987) (76)
- Daoism and Chinese Culture (2001) (71)
- The Taoist experience : an anthology (1993) (54)
- Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques (1981) (46)
- Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition (1991) (39)
- Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching (1999) (36)
- Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China (1995) (31)
- Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin (2008) (28)
- Health and long life the Chinese way (2005) (26)
- Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual (2002) (21)
- Taoist Mystical Philosophy: The Scripture of Western Ascension (1991) (19)
- Seven steps to the Tao : Sima Chengzhen's Zuowanglun (1987) (18)
- God of the Dao: Lord Lao in History and Myth (1998) (18)
- Cosmos and Community: The Ethical Dimension of Daoism (2004) (16)
- Daoist body cultivation : traditional models and contemporary practices (2006) (13)
- TAOIST VISIONS OF THE BODY (1991) (13)
- Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism: A Cross Cultural Perspective (2003) (13)
- The Daoist Monastic Manual: A Translation of the Fengdao Kejie (2004) (12)
- Yin XI: The Master at the Beginning of the Scripture (1997) (11)
- Mirror of Auras : Chen Tuan on Physiognomy (1988) (10)
- Eternal Life in Taoist Mysticism (1990) (10)
- Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 4 : China (2000) (8)
- Meditation Works in the Daoist, Buddhist, and Hindu Traditions (2008) (7)
- The Five Precepts of the Venerable Lord (1994) (7)
- Daoism in the Tang (618-907) (2000) (7)
- The looks of Laozi (1996) (7)
- A Textbook of Physiognomy: The Tradition of the "Shenxiang quanbian" (1986) (7)
- The Teaching of T'ien-yin-tzu (1987) (6)
- Steal Holy Food and Come Back as a Viper: Conceptions of Karma and Rebirth in Medieval Daoism (1998) (6)
- Date and Compilation of the Fengdao Kejie, The First Handbook of Monastic Daoism, The. (1997) (6)
- The beginnings and cultural characteristics of East Asian millenarianism (1998) (6)
- Mind and Eyes: Sensory and Spiritual Experience in Daoist Mysticism (1998) (6)
- Living Authentically: Daoist Contributions to Modern Psychology (2012) (6)
- Daoyin: Chinese Healing Exercises (2007) (6)
- Taoism in Japan: Positions and Evaluations (1995) (4)
- Chapter Five : Guarding the One : Concentrative Meditation in Taoism (1991) (4)
- Philosophy as Scripture in the Taoist Canon (1992) (4)
- Counting good deeds and days of life : The quantification of fate in medieval China (1998) (4)
- Cosmology, myth, and philosophy in ancient China : new studies on the Huainan zi (1994) (3)
- Medieval Daoist Ordination: Origins, Structure, and Practice (2003) (3)
- DOUMU: THE MOTHER OF THE DIPPER (2000) (3)
- Early Chinese Mysticism (2020) (3)
- Health Maintenance in Ancient China (2011) (3)
- DAOIST MONASTIC DISCIPLINE: HYGIENE, MEALS, AND ETIQUETTE (2001) (3)
- Yin and Yang: The Natural Dimension of Evil (1998) (3)
- A home for the immortals: the layout and development of medieval daoist monasteries (2000) (2)
- The Northern Celestial Masters (2000) (2)
- THE TAOIST ADOPTION OF THE CITY GOD (1996) (2)
- Sexual Control and Daoist Cultivation (2007) (2)
- Kōshin : a Taoist cult in Japan. II: Historical development (1995) (2)
- Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion (2013) (2)
- Daoist immortality and Buddhist holiness : A study and translation of the Honchō Shinsen-den (1999) (2)
- Immortal parents and universal kin: family values in medieval Daoism (2004) (2)
- THE SUBTLE BODY ECSTASY OF DAOIST INNER ALCHEMY (2006) (1)
- Armored Gods: Generals, Guardians, Killers, and Protectors (2019) (1)
- Told You So: Extreme Longevity and Daoist Realization (2009) (1)
- 18. Laozi: Ancient Philosopher, Master of Immortality, and God (2002) (1)
- Kōshin : a Taoist cult in Japan. III: The scripture : a translation of the Kōshinkyō (1995) (1)
- The American Transformation of Daoist Cultivation (2017) (1)
- Monastic Rules in Quanzhen Daoism: As Collected by Heinrich Hackmann (2003) (1)
- Two New Japanese Encyclopedias of Taoism: Dōkyō No Daijiten (The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism) (1995) (1)
- The Daode Jing (2019) (1)
- Teaching Chinese Mysticism (2011) (1)
- Das Chai-chieh lu. Materialien zur Liturgie im Taoismus [The Chai-chien lu. Materials concerning Taoist Liturgy] (1986) (1)
- The Caishan Goddess Temple: Then and Now (2017) (0)
- International Journal of Medical Sciences (2011) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS/CHINA The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen (2005) (0)
- Heavenly Masters: Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State By Vincent Goossaert. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. xii, 416 pp. ISBN: 9780824889029 (cloth). (2022) (0)
- The Inspirational Laozi: Poetry, Business, and the Blues (2017) (0)
- JAS volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1995) (0)
- Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience (review) (2008) (0)
- One Dao—Many Ways (2013) (0)
- The Reception of Laozi (2008) (0)
- Jan DeMeyer, Wu Yun’s Way. Life and Works of an Eighth-Century Daoist Master, (Sinica Leidensia LXXII) 2006 (2006) (0)
- Grand Offering in Hong Kong (2017) (0)
- DaoismâEnhancing Cosmic Energy (2014) (0)
- Women and the family (2019) (0)
- Daoist ethics (2019) (0)
- Daoism—Enhancing Cosmic Energy: The Daoist Body in the Twenty-first Century (2014) (0)
- Trading Institutions: The Design of Daoist Monasticism (2014) (0)
- Ultimate reality (2019) (0)
- Editorial (2015) (0)
- The nature of evil (2019) (0)
- Yes, But How? Three New Ways to Oneness (2015) (0)
- Heavens and hells (2019) (0)
- Daoism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (2019) (0)
- The Aspiration and Standards of Taoist Priests in the Early T'ang Period. By Florian Reiter (2000) (0)
- Religious precepts (2019) (0)
- Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China (2008) (0)
- The world (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- Book Review IV (2016) (0)
- Taoism: Growth of a Religion . By Isabelle Robinet, translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xx, 296 pp. (1998) (0)
- Activating Twenty-four; Time, Space, and Body (2022) (0)
- New Perspectives on Medieval Daoism (2020) (0)
- The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult. By Brigitte Baptandier (trans. Kristin Ingrid Fryklund) (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008) 374 pp $ 65.00 (2009) (0)
- The perfect human (2019) (0)
- Forms of community (2019) (0)
- Evidence for Their Impact on Health and Longevity (2018) (0)
- Ho Peng Yoke, Explorations in Daoism: Medicine and Alchemy in Literature (2012) (0)
- Daoism and Longevity (2019) (0)
- Medicine and immortality in T'ang China. (1988) (0)
- THE XIAODAO LUN IN THE BUDDHO-TAOIST DEBATES (1993) (0)
- The body (2019) (0)
- Selfhood and spontaneity (2019) (0)
- The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult (review) (2009) (0)
- Buddhist–Daoist Interactions in Medieval China (2014) (0)
- The Shaman and the Heresiarch: A New Interpretation of the Li Sao. By Gopal Sukhu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. 265. $80.00. (2014) (0)
- Yoga and Daoyin: History, Worldview, and Techniques (2013) (0)
- Mind, thoughts, and emotions (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews and Notes (2004) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS/CHINA: To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents. By Robert F. Campany (2002) (0)
- Tao, World, and Mind: Mystical Adaptations of the Taoist Classics (2000) (0)
- One DaoâMany Ways (2013) (0)
- Karmic consequences (2019) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS/CHINA: I Ching: An Annotated Bibliography. By Edward Hacker, Steve Moore, Lorraine Pasco (2002) (0)
- La moelle du phénix rouge. Santé et longue vie dans la Chine du XVI siècle [The Marrow of the Red Phoenix. Health and Long Life in Sixteenth-Century China] (1991) (0)
- K'ung-ts'ung-tzu: The K'ung Family Masters' Anthology . By Yoav Ariel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xii, 220 pages. $39.50. (1989) (0)
- The Xuanxue Lifestyle: Self-Cultivation and Qi Practices (2020) (0)
- Review of: Bartholomew P. M. Tsui, Taoist Tradition and Change: The Story of the Complete Perfection Sect in Hong Kong (1992) (0)
- The human condition (2019) (0)
- In “ Forget or Not Forget ? (2017) (0)
- Ways to Immortality: In Popular and Daoist Tales (2017) (0)
- New Perspectives on Taoist Culture (1996) (0)
- HEALING AND THE EARTH: DAOIST CULTIVATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2009) (0)
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