How Long to Read A Fourth-Century Daoist Family

How Long Does it Take to Read A Fourth-Century Daoist Family?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 39 minutes to read A Fourth-Century Daoist Family by Stephen R. Bokenkamp

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This volume is the first in a series of full-length English translations from one of the foremost classics in Daoist religious literature, the Zhen gao or Declarations of the Perfected. The Declarations is a collection of poems, accounts of the dead, instructions, and meditation methods received by the Daoist Yang Xi (330–ca. 386 BCE) from celestial beings and shared by him with his patrons and students. These fragments of revealed material were collected and annotated by the eminent scholar and Daoist Tao Hongjing (456–536), allowing us access to these distant worlds and unfamiliar strategies of self-perfection. Bokenkamp's full translation highlights the literary nature of Daoist revelation and the place of the Declarations in the development of Chinese letters. It further details interactions with the Chinese throne and the aristocracy and demonstrates ways that Buddhist borrowings helped shape Daoism much earlier than has been assumed. This first volume also contains heretofore unrecognized reconfigurations of Buddhist myth and practice that Yang Xi introduced to his Daoist audience.

How long is A Fourth-Century Daoist Family?

A Fourth-Century Daoist Family by Stephen R. Bokenkamp is 215 pages long, and a total of 54,825 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Fourth-Century Daoist Family Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 59 minutes to read A Fourth-Century Daoist Family aloud.

What Reading Level is A Fourth-Century Daoist Family?

A Fourth-Century Daoist Family is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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