List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Introduction
Part I: Contemplative Foundations and Textual Methods
1. Psychology and Self-Cultivation in Early Daoistic Thought
2. Who Compiled the Zhuangzi ¿¿?
3. Redaction Criticism and the Early History of Daoism
4. Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Daoism
5. The Yellow Emperor's Guru: A Narrative Analysis from Zhuangzi ¿¿ 11
6. Revisiting Angus C. Graham's Scholarship on the Zhuangzi ¿¿
7. Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi ¿¿¿
Part II: Contemplative Foundations and Philosophical Contexts
8. The Laozi ¿¿ in the Context of Early Daoist Mystical Praxis
9. Bimodal Mystical Experience in the "Qi wu lun" ¿¿¿ of Zhuangzi ¿¿
10. Nature and Self-Cultivation in Huainanzi's ¿¿¿ "Yuan Dao" ¿¿ (Originating in the Way)
11. The Classical Daoist Concept of Li ¿ (Pattern) and Early Chinese Cosmology
12. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi ¿¿
13. Against Cognitive Imperialism: A Call for a Non-Ethnocentric Approach to Cognitive Science and Religious Studies
Afterword: The "Contemplative Hermeneutic" and the Problem of Zhuangzi's Inner Chapters
Notes
Appendix 1: The Chapters of the Zhuangzi
Appendix 2: The Chapters of the Huainanzi
Index

Harold D. Roth is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and the Founder and Director of the Contemplative Studies Program at Brown University. His books include The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu; Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism; Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual (coedited with Livia Kohn); The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and The Essential Huainanzi (cotranslated and edited with John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, and Andrew Seth Meyer).