The Banner for a Chinese Lady Going to Paradise Kindle Edition

Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée’s remarkable digital work, “The Banner for a Chinese Lady Going to Paradise,” will be coming soon. It is a major contribution to the literature on Chinese philosophy and medicine. It also is an innovative eBook that enhances readers’ ability to study the text with frequent color illustrations and, not inconsequentially, at an affordable price.In 1972, archaeologists excavated two burial mounds in the outskirts of Changsha the capital of an ancient kingdom of the land of Chu, and present capital of Hunan Province. Approximately twenty meters high, these mounds were assumed to be the sepulchers the tombs of Prince Ma Yin of Chu and his family during the period of the Five Dynasties (907-960 BCE). Hence the place-name: Mawangdui. Three tombs were discovered and proved to be something entirely different from a simple tomb of the era. The sepulchers dated from the second century BCE, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty. The second tomb had been violated and pillaged, but the first and third were intact. The funeral chambers harbored more than one thousand objects, including copies of medical writings on moxibustion that describe 52 diseases, and explore ideas of health, illness and longevity.In addition to more than a thousand art objects the tombs also contained two copies of “The Book of the Way and the Virtue,” (Daodejing) that authenticate the relatively late versions that are available to us today; a text of “The Book of Changes,” (Yijing), and the “Spring and Autumn Annals”, (Chunqiu). Read more