Catherine Despeux
Biographic Data
| ID | 889116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Despeux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Despeux |
| SIGNATURE | DESPEUX C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan
From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of medical learning, and healer-monks gained renown for their mastery of ritual and medicinal therapeutics. In China, impo…
Taoism and Self Knowledge
International audience
Taoism and Self Knowledge
"Catherine Despeux's book is a study of the Internal Alchemical text "Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection." It begins with an analysis of pictographic and symbolic representation of the body in early Taoism after which the author examines different extant versions of the "Chart" as it was transmitted among Quanzhen groups in the Qing dynasty. The book is comprised of four main parts: the principal parts of the body and their nomenclature in I…
Chinese Medicinal Excrement
The use of medicinal excrement, of which there is some evidence under the Han, increased significantly in the Tang Dynasty. Many recipes, recorded in the Dunhuang manuscripts and in scholarly literature, are based on animal excrement. First, we want to show that this increase is due to the influence of foreign medicines, mainly Āyurvedic medicine and, second, that Buddhism played a key role in this development. By comparing Indian medical sources…
Tea in China
International audience
Power of Place
International audience
Âmes et animation du corps. La notion de shen dans la médecine chinoise antique
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Visual Representations of the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts From the Song to the Qing Period (Tenth to Nineteenth Century)
This article is a preliminary survey of representations of the body produced in China from the Song to the Qjng period in the context of medicine, forensic medicine and Daoism. Despite much common theoretical background, bodily representation in each of these fields differs in function and intent. Each field came to be associated with a particular aspect of the body. For medicine, this was the description of the viscera and the channels and tract…
Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité
Despeux Catherine. Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité. In: L'Homme, 1996, tome 36 n°137. Chine : facettes d'identité. pp. 87-118
La moelle du phénix rouge. Santé et longue vie dans la Chine du XVI siècle [The Marrow of the Red Phoenix. Health and Long Life in Sixteenth-Century China]
La cithare chinoise zheng. Un vol d'oies sauvages
Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité
Despeux Catherine. Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité. In: L'Homme, 1996, tome 36 n°137. Chine : facettes d'identité. pp. 87-118
La cithare chinoise zheng. Un vol d'oies sauvages
La moelle du phénix rouge. Santé et longue vie dans la Chine du XVI siècle [The Marrow of the Red Phoenix. Health and Long Life in Sixteenth-Century China]
Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité
Despeux Catherine. Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité. In: L'Homme, 1996, tome 36 n°137. Chine : facettes d'identité. pp. 87-118
Visual Representations of the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts From the Song to the Qing Period (Tenth to Nineteenth Century)
This article is a preliminary survey of representations of the body produced in China from the Song to the Qjng period in the context of medicine, forensic medicine and Daoism. Despite much common theoretical background, bodily representation in each of these fields differs in function and intent. Each field came to be associated with a particular aspect of the body. For medicine, this was the description of the viscera and the channels and tract…
Âmes et animation du corps. La notion de shen dans la médecine chinoise antique
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Power of Place
International audience
Chinese Medicinal Excrement
The use of medicinal excrement, of which there is some evidence under the Han, increased significantly in the Tang Dynasty. Many recipes, recorded in the Dunhuang manuscripts and in scholarly literature, are based on animal excrement. First, we want to show that this increase is due to the influence of foreign medicines, mainly Āyurvedic medicine and, second, that Buddhism played a key role in this development. By comparing Indian medical sources…
Tea in China
International audience
Taoism and Self Knowledge
International audience
Taoism and Self Knowledge
"Catherine Despeux's book is a study of the Internal Alchemical text "Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection." It begins with an analysis of pictographic and symbolic representation of the body in early Taoism after which the author examines different extant versions of the "Chart" as it was transmitted among Quanzhen groups in the Qing dynasty. The book is comprised of four main parts: the principal parts of the body and their nomenclature in I…
Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan
From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of medical learning, and healer-monks gained renown for their mastery of ritual and medicinal therapeutics. In China, impo…
History (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · China (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Alchemy (3 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · History (3 works)