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William Ceurvels deposited The Sleeping Giant Under the Peach Tree: A novel explanation for the prominence of the peach in Daoist iconography. in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis paper draws on chinese folklore, chinese medical theory, chinese materia medica and western ethnobotany and comparative religion to construct a theory of how the common infestation of ganoderma lucidum on peach trees in China would have led to an association of peach trees with immortality, daoist alchemy and the ability to vanquish ghosts…[Read more]
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William Ceurvels deposited The Sleeping Giant Under the Peach Tree: A novel explanation for the prominence of the peach in Daoist iconography. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis paper draws on chinese folklore, chinese medical theory, chinese materia medica and western ethnobotany and comparative religion to construct a theory of how the common infestation of ganoderma lucidum on peach trees in China would have led to an association of peach trees with immortality, daoist alchemy and the ability to vanquish ghosts…[Read more]
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William Ceurvels deposited The Sleeping Giant Under the Peach Tree: A novel explanation for the prominence of the peach in Daoist iconography. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
This paper draws on chinese folklore, chinese medical theory, chinese materia medica and western ethnobotany and comparative religion to construct a theory of how the common infestation of ganoderma lucidum on peach trees in China would have led to an association of peach trees with immortality, daoist alchemy and the ability to vanquish ghosts…[Read more]
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William Ceurvels's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago