Monica Esposito – Wikipedia

Monica Esposito (Genoa, 7 August 1962 – Kyoto, 10 March 2011) was a historic of Italian religions, translator and syologist.
Eminent Taoism specialist of Ming and Qing periods and his texts, is remembered as one of the major scholars of Chinese religions of modern times.

At the age of 4 he moved to Padua with his family. After the classical high school diploma, in 1987 he graduated in Chinese from the Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice with a thesis on the Qi Gong. In the academic years he stayed for study reasons at the Fudan University in Shanghai and the University of Gand in Belgium. He then perfected his studies at the Sorbona in Paris under the direction of Professor Isabelle Robinet, director of the Department of the University of Paris of Studies on the Far East. Later, in 1988, he obtained the diploma of advanced studies on the texts of the Taoist canon. He moved to Shanghai where he studied at the Academy of Social Sciences under the direction of Professor Chen Yaoting. His training was completed in 1993 with a Ph.D. with highest praise In Studies on the Far East with the thesis The Dragon door. The Longmen School of Mount Jingai and its alchemical practices according to the Daozang Xubian (following the Taoist cannon) (The Dragon Porta – The Longmen school of Mount Jin’gai and its alchemical practices deriving from Daozang Xubian, complement to the Taoist canon).

During various stays in China and Tibet, Monica Esposito conducted in -depth studies on the field regarding the practices of Qi Gong, Taiji, Taoism and Buddhism (particularly of Zogchen). After post-dictate studies at the Center of Indian Studies and the Far East of the University of Venice (1994-1995), at Sorbonne in Paris (1995-1997) and at the Kansai University of Osaka, in 1998 he definitively established his own Residence in Kyoto where he married the Swiss university professor Urs App. Between 1998 and 2003 he led studies to Taiwan, Hong Kong and in continental China producing, together with his husband, significant video documentaries on the religions of the Far East.

After being appointed associate professor at the Institute of Humanities of the University of Kyoto (Jinbun Kagaku Kenkūjo) in 2003, Esposito continued his research on the Taoist texts of Ming and Qing periods. Conceived and directed the Daozang jiyao ( ^[first] ), an international research project with more than 60 scientific collaborators all over the world on the most important collection of Taoist texts of the Qing period. To develop parts of this great project, which began in 2006, Monica Esposito obtained important contributions from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (2006-2009 and 2010-2013 ^[2] ) e dalla Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS; 2008-2011 ^[3] ).

The scientific research of Monica Esposito focused on the Taoism of Ming and Qing periods, in particular on the “Longmen” tradition (Dragon Porta Del Dragone) in modern Taoism; the inner alchemy (Neidan); the interaction in the late imperial period between Taoism, tantrism and Buddhism; and Tibetan Buddhism (Rdzogs Chen).

He died in 2011, not yet fifty years old, due to a pulmonary embolism, due to a heart disease. After the death of the Esposito, Professor Lai Chi Tim of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a center of studies on Taoist culture, assumed the direction of his project.

In 2012 and 2014, two books will be dedicated to the memory of the Esposito:

• Far-Asia notebooks , scientific magazine on the religions of the Far East founded by Anna Seidel (number of the year 2012 dedicated to Monica Esposito)
• Quanzhen Daoism in Modern Society and Culture ,, I became a captural to goanay yubonu , Geoume, 2014.

• Direttrice Del Progetto Daozang Jiyao ^[4]
• Membro della Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
• Member of the Dōkyō Gakkai (Japanese company for the search for Taoism)
• Membro della American Association of Asian Studies
• Coeditrice of the series Routledge Studies in Taoism (Routledge, London)
• Member of the edition committee for Daoism: Religion, History and Society (Scientific magazine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Center for Taoist culture studies)

• 1987 The practice of Qigong in China. Introduction to a contemporary school and its texts (with a translation of the WUXI Chanwei, a short study on the five breaths) – Degree thesis, University of Venice, Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, Degree Course in Oriental Languages ​​and Literatures (296 p.)
• 1993 The Dragon door. The Longmen School of Mount Jingai and its alchemical practices according to the Daozang Xubian (following the Taoist cannon) . Doctoral thesis 3ème Cycle, Paris VII, 1993 (under the direction of Isabelle Robinet). 2 vol. ^[5]
• 1995 Qigong, the new Taoist school of the five breathing . Padua: Muzzio, 1995.
• 1997 The alchemy of the breath . Rome: Ubaldini, 1997. ^[6]
• two thousand and thirteen The Zen of Tantra . Wil (Switzerland) / Paris: UniversityMedia, 2013 (ISBN 978-3-906000-25-1). 179 pp.
• two thousand and thirteen Creative Daoism . Wil (Switzerland) / Paris: UniversityMedia, 2013 (ISBN 978-3-906000-04-6). 392 pp. ^[7]
• 2014 Facets of Qing Daoism ( Wil (Svizzera): UniversityMedia (ISBN 978-3-906000-06-0), 2014. 410 pp. ^[8]

• 1998 Main editor of articles on the Chinese religion (Taoism) and the inner alchemy for the Easterism Dictionary: Critical dictionary of esotericism , ed. Jean Servier, Parigi: Presses Universitaires de France (ISBN 2-13-049556-7
• 2004 Special Issue: In Memoriam of Isabelle Robinet (Special number in memory of Isabelle Robinet; in collaboration with Hubert Durt), Far-Asia notebooks No. 14 (2004).
• 2008 Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries (GAMAGES OF TIBET IN SENAOUNESTESTESTYMENSME AND PLENTY BEN), Etudes Almagques 22 (2 volumes). Paris: French school of extreme-orient, 2008.

• 1991 (from French): Catherine Despeux, The immortals of ancient China. Taoism and female alchemy . Rome, Ubaldini Editore.
• 2008 (dal giapponese): Onoda Shunzō, « The Meiji Suppression of Buddhism and Its Impact on the Spirit of Exploration and Academism of Buddhist Monks », in Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries Stopione “thematic studies” no 22, vol. 2, Paris, Far East French School, p. 225-242.
• 2008 (dal cinese) Chen Bing, « The Tantric Revival and Its Reception in Modern China », in Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries , Stopione “thematic studies” no 22, vol. 2, Paris, Far East French School, p. 387-427.

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1988

• Shenhongxun, Taiji Wuxigong – the practice of the five breaths of the Supreme Pole , Taiji Wuxigong Yanjiuhui, Shanghai, 1986, biological (magazine of the Department of Philosophy, Ca’Foscari University, Venice) 1/1988, 225-226.

1992

• Daozang Xubian, collection of alchemical texts of Longmen, Annals of the Eastern University Institute LII, 4, 1992, 429-449.

1993

• Journey to the Temple of the Celestial-Eye (journey to the temple of the celestial eye). In David W. Reed (ed.), Spirit of Enterprise, The 1993 Rolex Awards , 275-277. Bern: Buri ed., 1993.

1995

• The return to the sources – for the establishment of an inner alchemy dictionary at the time Ming and Qing. In M. Scarpari (ed.), The sources for the study of Chinese civilization , 101-117. Venice: Cafoscarina, 1995.

1996

• The secret of the golden flower and the Longmen tradition of Mount Jin’gai. Dans P. Corradini (ed.), Knowledge and interpretation of Chinese civilization , 151-169. Venice: Cafoscarina, 1996.

1998

• (In Collaborazione Concen Yaoting Chen Yaoting), Yidali Daojiao de Yanjiu’s research [Studi Sul Taoismo in italia], Dangdai zongjiao yanjiu Contemporary religious research 1, 44-48.
• The different versions of the Secret of the Golden Flower and their relationship with the Longmen school (I diversi versioni del Secret of the golden flower ), Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies XLIII, 90-109.
• Twelve articles on the Chinese religion (Taoism) and internal alchemy in the Encyclopedic dictionary of esotericism , A Cura di Jean Servier. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France: absorption of cosmic scents, 5-6; Female alchemy, 51-52; Inner alchemy, in Collaborazione con Isabelle Robinet, 55-58; Art of the alcove, 58-60; Subtle body, 343-345; Daoyin, 365-367; Deliverance from the corpse, 377-378; Exorcism, 500-502; Sacred geography, 532-534; Immortality and Taoism, 642-645; Breath and embryonic breathing, 1216-1218; TAO, 1262-1263).
• Italy when it comes to Italy to Dōkyōōōōone イタアギ漢学道tually (Li sinology Italogo Suloismoism). In Nakura shōhachi 中村璋八(ED.), Chūgokujin to dōkyō Chinese and Taoism, 83-104. Tokyo: Kyūko shoin
• A tradition of Rdzogs-Cen in China. A note on the monastery of the mountains of the heavenly eye, Venetian Asian 3, (1998): 221-224.

1999

• Orakel in China [China oracles]. In A. Langer and A. Lutz (EDS), Oracle – a look into the future [Oracles -the future of the future], 304-314. Zürich: Museum Rietberg.

2000

• Daoism in the Qing (1644-1911) (il Taoism del period qing). in L. Kohn (ed.), Daoism Handbook , 623-658. Suffering: Brill.

2001

• Longmen Taoism in Qing China–Doctrinal and Local Reality (tao Longmen Longmen Nella sna del period Qing), Journal of Chinese Religions (The special number that only way go back go raffiaert and paor Katz), 191-231.
• In Memoriam Isabelle Robinet (1932-2000)-A Thematic and Annotted Bibliography (in Memoriam Isabelle Robinet. A thematic and annotated bibliography). Silk monuments XLIX, 595-624.
• Articles on Taoism and inner alchemy in The great Ricci dictionary of the Chinese language (I know Volumi). Paris: Brouwer deline.

2004

• The Longmen School and its Controversial History during the Qing Dynasty. (The Longmen tradition and the controversial on its history during the Qing period). In John Lagerwey ed. Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field (Chinese religion and society: the transformation of a field of study), vol. 2, 621-698. Paris: Efeo & Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2 vol.
• In Memoriam of Isabelle Robinet – Annotated and Thematic Bibliography (Revised and increased edition) , Far-Asia notebooks 14 (Special issue in Memoriam Isabelle Robinet, published by Monica Esposito and Hubert Durt), 1-42.
• Sun-worship in China–The Roots of Shangqing Taoist Practices of Light (The cult of the sun in China: the roots of the Shangqing light practices), Far-Asia notebooks 14 (Special number in Memoriam Isabelle Robinet, edited by Monica Esposito and Hubert Durt), 345-402.
• Ganguten shita zō-jotan if Shintai ka 逆転胢–女丹身体s Speckchio Inverso: La Visione del Corpo Nell’alchimia Femminile). In Sakade Yoshinobu Sensei Taikyū kinen Ronshū Karia Kai 坥伸先生記念á衆塌会, (ED.), Chūgoku shisō ni okeru shintai, shizen, shinkō Chinese thought 体 body. nature. Faith [Corpo, Nature Nel Nel Pensiero Cinese] (Volume Dedicato Al Prof. Yoshinobu Sakade), 113-129. TOKYO: Tōhō Shoten Oriental Bookstore.
• Shindai ni Okeru Kingai-Zan No Seiritsu to Kinka shūshi choshi Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo color, 金蓋龍㈐琝にだageだ㏀㏯ between jontitun dela Jin’gai durante la dynasty qing ). ). In Takata Tokio 高田時雄 (ED.), Chūgoku shūkyō BUNKEN KEKUSAI SHINPOJIUMU Hōkukukusho China Religious Literature Research International 教 ン ポジウム Report, 259-268. Kyoto: Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyūjo Institute of Human Sciences [Vedi Giù Per La Versione Annotata Di 2007].

2005

• Shiddai Dōkyō to Mikkyō: Ryūmon Seijijijijijishū 清代道 Scriptures教ease西心halte dynon dytrioision trantrioism Zhu Xinzong] In Mutigani Konio 麦谷邦夫 (ED. Sankyō kōshō ronsō 3) Negotiations (STUDIE SULL’INTERAZIONE TRA LE TRE INSEGNAMENTI), 287-338. Kyoto: Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyūjo.

2006

2007

2008

• Twenty -one articles for The Encyclopedia of Taoism a cura di fabrizio pregadio. London: Routledge: 1. Collected Works of the Perfected Lü of Pure Yang Teriorization of the Spirits “;” Egress of The Spirit (Chushen) in Inner Alchemy (1.282-284); 3. Sequel to the Taist Canon (Daozang Xubian Tibetan) (1.347-350); 4. Mother of the Dipper (DOUMUMU bucket bucket) Mother/ Doum) (1.382-383); 5. Spirit of the Valley (Gushen Valley) (1.466); 6. Scripture of Wisdom and Life ing (Huohou fire) in inner alchemy (1.530-531); 8. Gate of the Dragon (Longmen Dragon Gate) (1.704-706); 9. Complete Writings of Ancestor Lü [Dongbin] (1.726-728 ); Min Yide Min Yide (2.747-748); 11. Gate of the Vital Force (mingmen gate) (2.750); 12. BATHING; Ablutions (muyu bath) in Inner Alchemy (2.753-754); 13 . Muddy Pellet (niwan mud pills) (2.775-777); 14. Inner Alchemy for Women (Nüdan Female Dan) (2.778-780); 15. Three Passes (SANGUAN Sanshi) (835-836); 16. Joint Cultivity (Shuangxiu Double Repair) (2.906-907); 17. The Ultimate Purport of the Golden Flower of the Great One (Taiyi Jinhua Zongzhi) (2.961-962); 18. Heart of Heav en; Celestial Heart (Tianxin Tianxin) ( 2.988); 19. Wang Changyue Wang Changyue (2.1008-1010); 20. Mysterious Pass (XUANGUAN porch) (2.1131-2); 21. Intention (yi) (2.1158-9)
• rDzogs chen in China: from Chan to Tibetan Tantrism in Fahai Lama’s (1921-1991) footsteps (Rdzogs Chen in China: Chine and tantrism in the teaching of Fahai Lama (1921-1991). In Monica Esposito (ed.), Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th centuries (Images of Tibet in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), 22 (vol. 2), 473-548. Paris: École Française of Extrême-Orient.

2009

• Yibu Quanzhen Daozang de Faming: Daozang Jiyao Ji Qingdai Quanzhen Rentong’s invention: Tao Zang Ji must be true in the Qing Dynasty. Wendao kunyushan Ask Kunyu Mountain, 303-343. Jinan: QILU.
• The Daozang Jiyao Project: Mutation of a Canon (the Daozang project: mutations of a text necklace), Daoism: Religion, History and Society (2009.1): 95-153.
• The Daozang Jiyao and the Future of Daoist Studies (the Daozang Jiyao and the future of Taoisti studies). Contribution presented to the International Congress New Approaches to the Study of Daoism in Chinese Culture and Society , Chinese University of Hong Kong, 26-28 November 2009 (will be published in Lai, who Tim & Cheung, Neky Tak-Qu, New Approaches to the Study of Daoism in Chinese Culture and Society , Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2011).

2010

• Qingdai Quanzhen Jiao Zhi ChongGou: Min Yide Ji Qi Jianli Longmen Zhengtong de Yiyuan’s Reconstruction of the Quan Zhenjiao of the Qing Dynasty: Min Yiyi has time to establish a dragon gate of orthodox willingness (la reinvenzhen durante Il Period o qing: min yide e la sua volontà d ‘Ortodossia). Presentato durante laa International Quanzhen conference Exploring the ancient prison and this-yesterday, today and tomorrow, tomorrow kong, Gennaio 6-8, 2010 (in stampa).
• QingDai Daojiao -Jiangnan Jiang Yuanting Ben Daozang Jiyao’s research on the Taoist Tao of the Qing Dynasty -Jiangnan Jiang Yuanting’s “Taoismo Del Periodo Qing -Ricerche Sulla Versione Daozang Jiyao Di Jiang Yuanting). Zongjiao yanjiu Religious Research (in Stampa).

2011

• « Shindai has dōkyō or swimming Sankyōko to shite not to shuyō—zareke shinto to gero grabbed not kn’e no jii »おおおおけめ.家徒聖聖聖, [ILY DAAZANG JIYAO and L’IIDOLOGY DEGL DEGL CENERIGOni Neligio Taomo in the period qing], in kunio mugitani 夹 谦ī Ed. SANKYō KōSHō Ronsō Zokuhen Sankyo Negotiations Theory of Loan, Kyoto: Kyoto Daigaku Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyūjo, P. 431-469.

2014

• The Invention of a Quanzhen Canon: The Wondrous Fate of the Daozang Jiyao (L’Invenzione Di Unone Quanzhen: Il Destino Miracolos Daozang Jiyao). T & Liu Xun (EDS.) Quanzhen Daoism in Modern Society and Culture , Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2014, pp. 44–77.

1993

• Journey to the Temple of the Celestial-Eye Mountains . Documentario, Rolex Awards for Enterprise, Selected Projects.

1995

• Journey to Khams and the southern AMDO . Documentary, CNRS European Project.

2000

• Oracles in China . Documentary shown during the exhibition Oracles (2000) at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Urs App).
• Oracles in Japan . Documentary shown during the exhibition Oracles (2000) at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Urs App).
• Dangki: children of oracle . Documentary shown during the exhibition Oracles (2000) at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Urs App).

2001

• Dangki – Les shaman from Chine (Dangki – China’s shamans). Documentary released in 2001 on France 2 (in collaboration with Urs App).

2002

• Towards the Tōhaku pine forest . ^[ten] Documentary for the exhibition of the works of art of Hasegawa Tōhaku (2002) at the Rietberg Museum ^[11] , Zurich (in collaboration with Urs App)

2003

• The tea. . Documentary projected in the exhibitions on bamboo at the Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich (2003) and the Ethnological Museum of Monaco (Völkerkundemuseum München, 2006) ^[twelfth] (in collaboration with Urs App). ^[13]