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dc.identifier	ECF_book_559
dc.creator	Bianchi Ester
dc.creator	Campo Daniela
dc.creator	Paolillo Maurizio
dc.title	What Other Words Do You Expect Me to Add?. Writings in Memory of Alfredo M. Cadonna
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Quali altre parole vi aspettate che aggiunga? (What more words am I supposed to say?) is a collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Alfredo Cadonna (1948-2020), philologist, translator and scholar of religions in China. The eleven chapters of this volume, authored by scholars who studied under Alfredo Cadonna, offer annotated translations of excerpts of texts belonging to different historical periods and religious and cosmological traditions. They are representative of a variety of literary genres and linguistic styles. Texts collected here include writings from archaic China, religious-themed literature composed by literati of the Empire, various types of medieval and late imperial Daoist and Buddhist works, as well as corresponding modern and contemporary examples. More precisely, the reader will find in this volume translations from the Buddhist meditation manual Shi chan boluomi cidi famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 by Tiantai master Zhiyi 智顗 (538-97); religious instructions on the kan huatou 看話頭 method of meditation by Chan master Laiguo 來果 (1881-1953); one passage of the Guoyu 國語 (5th-4th centuries B.C.) dealing with the role of ‘shamans’, the relationship between spirits and human and the final ‘separation of Earth and Sky’; nineteen poems by Tang dynasty poet Wei Qumou 韋渠牟 (749-801) containing a description of the poet’s journey beyond the world of mortals; passages from the Taishang Lingbao zhicao pin 太上靈寶芝草品 and from Ge Hong 葛洪’s Baopuzi 抱樸子 (4th century) on the Daoist tradition of natural drugs zhi 芝; two chapters of the Hanlongjing 撼龍經, a fengshui classical text belonging to the School of Forms (10th century); passages from the Xiuzhen biannan 修真辨難 by Daoist master Liu Yiming 劉一明 (1734-1821); part of the Daoist text Tianxian xinchuan 天仙心傳 attributed to Min Yide 閔一得 (1758-1836) and dealing with self-cultivation and ritual practice; the Baojing sanmei 寶鏡三昧, a liturgical chant of the Chan Caodong Buddhist school attributed to the Dongshan Liangjie 洞山良价 (807- 869); a key section of the influential Buddhist Mahāyāna scripture Dasheng qixin lun 大乘起信論, an indigenous Chinese composition dating from the 6th century; and, finally, works of Liu Yiming on the specific topic of female alchemy.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-640-4
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-12-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-641-1/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-641-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-640-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Alfredo Cadonna
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	Awakening of Faith
dc.subject	Baojing sanmei
dc.subject	Beidou
dc.subject	Buddhism
dc.subject	Buddhist meditation
dc.subject	Buddhist meditation
dc.subject	Caodong Chan
dc.subject	Chan
dc.subject	Chan
dc.subject	Chan Buddhism
dc.subject	China
dc.subject	Chinese Literature
dc.subject	Chinese religions
dc.subject	Cosmology
dc.subject	Critical phrase
dc.subject	Daoism
dc.subject	Daoism
dc.subject	Daoism
dc.subject	Daoism
dc.subject	Daoist alchemy
dc.subject	Dhyāna pāramitā
dc.subject	Enlightenment
dc.subject	Female alchemy
dc.subject	Fengshui
dc.subject	Ge Hong
dc.subject	Geography
dc.subject	Guoyu
dc.subject	Hanlongjing
dc.subject	Heavenly Transcendent
dc.subject	Human nature
dc.subject	Immortality
dc.subject	Internal Alchemy
dc.subject	Kan huatou
dc.subject	Laiguo (1881-1953)
dc.subject	Liu Yiming
dc.subject	Liu Yiming
dc.subject	Longevity
dc.subject	Longmen Daoism
dc.subject	Min Yide
dc.subject	Mind
dc.subject	Mythology
dc.subject	Neidan
dc.subject	Nortern Dipper
dc.subject	Nüdan
dc.subject	Poetry
dc.subject	Qing dynasty
dc.subject	Self-cultivation
dc.subject	Self-cultivation
dc.subject	Shamanism
dc.subject	Spirits
dc.subject	Suchness
dc.subject	Tang Dynasty
dc.subject	Tathāgatagarbha
dc.subject	Tiantai
dc.subject	Tōzan Ryōkai
dc.subject	Wei Qumou (749-801)
dc.subject	Yang Yunsong
dc.subject	Zhi
dc.subject	Zhiyi (538-97)
dc.subject	Zutang ji

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Writings in Memory of Alfredo M. Cadonna

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Ester Bianchi Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia

Daniela Campo Université de Strasbourg, France

Maurizio Paolillo Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», Italia

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Quali altre parole vi aspettate che aggiunga? (What more words am I supposed to say?) is a collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Alfredo Cadonna (1948-2020), philologist, translator and scholar of religions in China. The eleven chapters of this volume, authored by scholars who studied under Alfredo Cadonna, offer annotated translations of excerpts of texts belonging to different historical periods and religious and cosmological traditions. They are representative of a variety of literary genres and linguistic styles. Texts collected here include writings from archaic China, religious-themed literature composed by literati of the Empire, various types of medieval and late imperial Daoist and Buddhist works, as well as corresponding modern and contemporary examples. More precisely, the reader will find in this volume translations from the Buddhist meditation manual Shi chan boluomi cidi famen 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 by Tiantai master Zhiyi 智顗 (538-97); religious instructions on the kan huatou 看話頭 method of meditation by Chan master Laiguo 來果 (1881-1953); one passage of the Guoyu 國語 (5th-4th centuries B.C.) dealing with the role of ‘shamans’, the relationship between spirits and human and the final ‘separation of Earth and Sky’; nineteen poems by Tang dynasty poet Wei Qumou 韋渠牟 (749-801) containing a description of the poet’s journey beyond the world of mortals; passages from the Taishang Lingbao zhicao pin 太上靈寶芝草品 and from Ge Hong 葛洪’s Baopuzi 抱樸子 (4th century) on the Daoist tradition of natural drugs zhi 芝; two chapters of the Hanlongjing 撼龍經, a fengshui classical text belonging to the School of Forms (10th century); passages from the Xiuzhen biannan 修真辨難 by Daoist master Liu Yiming 劉一明 (1734-1821); part of the Daoist text Tianxian xinchuan 天仙心傳 attributed to Min Yide 閔一得 (1758-1836) and dealing with self-cultivation and ritual practice; the Baojing sanmei 寶鏡三昧, a liturgical chant of the Chan Caodong Buddhist school attributed to the Dongshan Liangjie 洞山良价 (807- 869); a key section of the influential Buddhist Mahāyāna scripture Dasheng qixin lun 大乘起信論, an indigenous Chinese composition dating from the 6th century; and, finally, works of Liu Yiming on the specific topic of female alchemy.

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Dec. 22, 2022

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978-88-6969-641-1

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978-88-6969-640-4

Keywords

Caodong Chan • Kan huatou • Qing dynasty • Longevity • Buddhism • Tathāgatagarbha • Self-cultivation • Baojing sanmei • Internal Alchemy • Spirits • Dhyāna pāramitā • Daoist alchemy • Zhi • Tōzan Ryōkai • Zutang ji • Min Yide • Tang Dynasty • Mythology • Human nature • Zhiyi (538-97) • Laiguo (1881-1953) • Chinese religions • Astronomy • Heavenly Transcendent • Poetry • Hanlongjing • Shamanism • Alfredo Cadonna • Mind • Female alchemy • Chinese Literature • Suchness • Yang Yunsong • Fengshui • Beidou • Geography • Cosmology • Immortality • Liu Yiming • Longmen Daoism • Wei Qumou (749-801) • Chan • Daoism • Guoyu • Awakening of Faith • Buddhist meditation • Tiantai • Critical phrase • China • Nüdan • Neidan • Ge Hong • Chan Buddhism • Nortern Dipper • Enlightenment

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