Knowledge Commons | William Ceurvels | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/wmceurvels/activity/ Activity feed for William Ceurvels. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 70f37212f896eba41819eebf9d3e8415 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633993/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:29:34 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a39b552bb102abc46cf406b7b44eee23 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633992/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:29:05 -0500 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]

]]> 0 bfad27af2bf608815df8b64b258fcaaa William Ceurvels deposited The Sleeping Giant Under the Peach Tree: A novel explanation for the prominence of the peach in Daoist iconography. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1632198/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 02:09:26 -0500 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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