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Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Taoism Harold D. Roth Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 60, No. 2. (1997), pp. 295-314. Stable URL: /sici?sici=0041-977X%281997%2960%3A2%3C295%3AEFSOMI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London is currently published by School of Oriental and African Studies. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /about/terms.html. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /journals/soas.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@. Mon May 7 13:08:35 2007 Evidence for stages of meditation in early Taoism HAROLD D. ROTH Brown University, Providence, RI Introduction The role of some form of breathing meditation in most of the worlds great mystical traditions has long been known, but few have seen much evidence for this in early Taoism. By early Taoism I mean the formative