Synopsis:
This is a vast and monumental compendium of the current state of Taoist scholarship, covering the history, principles, schools, texts, personalities, divinities, practices, techniques, important sites and terms. The work has approximately 800 main entries, with 1750 cross-referenced entries and bibliographical data.
An extremely useful tool for scholars and students, enabling them to easily access historical, terminological and bibliographical information on a great number of subjects related to Taoism, providing an overview of Taoist history, thought and religion.
It includes material on lineages, transmission, deities and the Taoist pantheon, initiation, ordination and priesthood, sacred texts, scripture and revelations, biography, cosmology, demons and spirits, numerology, Taoist sacred sites, rebirth, death and the afterlife, immortality, Taoist views of the human body, inner deities, ethics and morals, temples and shrines,Taoist lay associations, monasticism and the monastic code, apocalyptic eschatology, messianism and millenarianism, ascetisicism, magic, divination, omens, and prophecy, meditation and visualization, Taoist music, seasonal observances, mysticism, Taoism and Chinese mythology, Taoism and Chinese religion, Taoism and Confucianism, Taoism and Neo-Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese Buddhism, Taoism and ancestor worship, medium cults, local cults, popular sects, and popular religion, Taoism and secret societies, women in Taoism, Taoism and the State, Taoism in the People's Republic of China, Taoism and the military arts, Taoism and Chinese art, literature and theatre, plus Taoism outside China - with the Yao people, and in Japan and Korea. |
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