A Library of Clouds : : The Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and the Rewriting of Daoist Texts / / Chao-jan Chang, J. E. E. Pettit; ed. by Stephen Bokenkamp, Chi Tim Lai.
From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Daoist Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Titles from the Daoist Canon
- Abbreviations
- Part I. Translators’ Introduction
- Background
- Chapter One. Thirty-One Fascicles: 11 Cataloguing Scriptures of the Heavens
- Chapter Two. Three Ones: 29 A Stereoscopic View of a Daoist Hagiography
- Chapter Three. Five Stars: 55 Remaking Daoist Ritual
- Chapter Four. Nine Palaces: 77 Later Reconstructions of Upper Clarity
- Chapter Five. Three Hundred Fascicles: 99 Rethinking the Authorship of Daoist Scriptures
- Conclusion
- Part II. Translation: The Most High Wondrous Scripture of the Immaculate Numen [Celestial Palace] and Penetrating Mystery of the Great Existence [Heaven] (Taishang suling dongxuan dayou miaojing 太上素靈洞玄大有妙經, DZ 1314)
- 1. The Three Grottoes
- 2. The Nine Palaces
- 3. The Three Ones
- 4. Three [Palaces] and Nine [Openings]
- 5. Illustrious Code of the Nine Perfected
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index