Heavenly Masters : : Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State /

Heavenly Masters : : Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State / / Vincent Goossaert; ed. by Stephen Bokenkamp, Chi Tim Lai.

The origins of modern Daoism can be traced to the Church of the Heavenly Master (Tianshidao), reputedly established by the formidable Zhang Daoling. In 142 CE, according to Daoist tradition, Zhang was visited by the Lord on High, who named him his vicar on Earth with the title Heavenly Master. The d...

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Goossaert, Vincent,
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Bokenkamp, Stephen,
Lai, Chi Tim,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:New Daoist Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Inventing the Founding Ancestor The Lives of Zhang Daoling
  • Chapter Two The Rise of Longhushan
  • Chapter Three The Heavenly Masters in the History of Daoist Ordinations
  • Chapter Four New Rituals and the Longhushan Synthesis of Modern Daoism
  • Chapter Five The Mature Institution: Longhushan during the Song-Yuan Period
  • Chapter Six The Most Powerful Heavenly Master Ever? The Lives of Zhang Yuchu
  • Chapter Seven The Institution under the Ming and the Qing
  • Chapter Eight The Heavenly Masters and Late Imperial Chinese Society
  • Chapter Nine The Predicaments of Modernity The Heavenly Masters since the 1850s
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. List of the Heavenly Masters
  • Appendix 2. The Different Versions of the Tiantan yuge
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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