[9] “self” from “other”.Contrarytothechargesofitscritics — bothamongChina’sConfuciansandamongmodernWesterners — Taoist “self-cultivation” hasneverbeengroundedinabeliefthateachhumanbeinghasanyseparate, enclosed, individualized “self” , Taoistsgenerallyassumethatone’s“self” cannotbeunderstoodorfulfilledwithoutreferencetootherpersons, , inAsiaorelsewhere.
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’sbookTaoism: TheEnduringTradition, PartV—TheCultivatedLife.
: .A.inAsianHistoryfromBrownUniversityin1976, (1982) (1986) , thesteeringcommitteeoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion’sChineseReligionsgroup, .
-maCh’eng-chen（司马承帧）(647-735): HewasaTaoistinTangDynastyandalsolivedasahermitinMountT’ien-tai.
-chang （贺知章）(about659-about744): apoetinTangDynasty.
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