| Description |
1 online resource (1684 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Combined Tables of Contents; Volume 1; Contents; List of Illustrations; Summary Contents of Volumes 2 and 3; Preface; User's Guide; List of Contributors; General Introduction; The History of the Taoist Canon before the Ming Dynasty; Wang Chong's Daozang; Ge Hong's Catalogue of Taoist Books; The Canon of the Early Taoist Ecclesia (Zhengyi fawen); The Books of the Three Caverns (Sandong jing); Lu Xiujing and the Canon of the Three Caverns; The Seven Parts; The Twelve Categories and the Thirty-Six Divisions; The Liturgical Organizations of the Tang; The Canon of the Kaiyuan Era |
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The Song and Yuan CanonsThe Destruction of the Old Canon; The Ming Canon and Its Supplement; The Compilation of the Zhengtong daozang; The Supplement of 1607; Destruction and Rebirth; The Tao-tsang Project; Daozang Studies after 1926; The Beginning of the Tao-tsang Project; The Final Stage; New Perspectives; Part 1: Eastern Zhou to Six Dynastie; 1. A Texts in General Circulation; 1.A.1 Philosophy; 1.A.1.a Texts; 1.A.1.b Commentaries; 1.A.2 Divination; 1.A.3 Medicine and Pharmacology; 1.A.4 Yangsheng; 1.A.5 Alchemy; 1.A.6 Sacred History and Geography; 1.A.6.a Cosmogony and the Pantheon |
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1.A.6.b Mythology and Hagiography1.A.7 Collected Works; 1.A.8 Compendiums and Encyclopedias; 1.B Texts in Internal Circulation; 1.B.1 The Way of the Heavenly Master; 1.B.1.a Didactic and Doctrinal Treatises; 1.B.1.b Rituals and Rules; 1.B.2 Shangqing; 1.B.2.a The Canonical Shangqing Scriptures; 1.B.2.b Other Early Shangqing Scriptures; 1.B.2.c Early Shangqing Hagiographies; 1.B.2.d Anthologies; 1.B.2.e Rituals and Rules; 1.B.3 Lingbao; 1.B.3.a The Canonical Lingbao Scriptures; 1.B.3.b Other Early Lingbao Scriptures; 1.B.3.c Doctrinal and Liturgical Works; 1.B.4 Texts of the Dongshen Division |
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1.B.5 Other Revealed Scriptures1.B.6 The Taiping jing; Part 2: Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties; 2.A Texts in General Circulation; 2.A.1 Philosophy; 2.A.1.a Commentaries on Ancient Philosophers; 2.A.1.b Tang Philosophical Texts (General); 2.A.1.c The Yinfu jing and Its Commentaries; 2.A.1.d Commentaries on the Zhouyi cantong qi and Related Scriptures; 2.A.1.e Commentaries on Lingbao Scriptur; 2.A.2 Divination and Numerology; 2.A.3 Medicine and Pharmacology; 2.A.4 Yangsheng; 2.A.4.a Miscellaneous Practices; 2.A.4.b Respiratory Techniques; 2.A.5 Alchemy; 2.A.5.a Laboratory Alchemy |
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2.A.5.b Inner Alchemy2.A.6 Sacred History and Geography; 2.A.6.a Sacred Annals and Records; 2.A.6.b Hagiographies; 2.A.6.c Mountain and Temple Monographs; Epigraphy; 2.A.7 Collected Works; 2.A.8 Handbooks and Encyclopedias; 2.B Texts in Internal Circulation; 2.B.1 The General Liturgical Organization of the Tang; 2.B.2 The Orthodox One Way of the Heavenly Master; 2.B.2.a Liturgical Organization; 2.B.2.b Rituals; 2.B.2.c Miscellaneous; 2.B.3 The Taiping Division; 2.B.4 The Taixuan Division; 2.B.5 Sanhuang Scriptures and Rituals; 2.B.6 Dongyuan and Shengxuan Scriptures and Rituals |
| Summary |
Taoism remains the only major religion whose canonical texts have not been systematically arranged and made available for study. This long-awaited work, a milestone in Chinese studies, catalogs and describes all existing texts within the Taoist canon. The result will not only make the entire range of existing Taoist texts accessible to scholars of religion, it will open up a crucial resource in the study of the history of China. The vast literature of the Taoist canon, or Daozang, survives in a Ming Dynasty edition of some fifteen hundred different texts. Compiled under imperial auspices and completed in 1445-with a supplement added in 1607-many of the books in the Daozang concern the history, organization, and liturgy of China's indigenous religion. A large number of works deal with medicine, alchemy, and divination. If scholars have long neglected this unique storehouse of China's religious traditions, it is largely because it was so difficult to find one's way within it. Not only was the rationale of its medieval classification system inoperable for the many new texts that later entered the Daozang, but the system itself was no longer understood by the Ming editors; hence the haphazard arrangement of the canon as it has come down to us. This new work sets out the contents of the Daozang chronologically, allowing the reader to follow the long evolution of Taoist literature. Lavishly illustrated, the first volume ranges from antiquity through the Middle Ages, while the second spans the modern period. Within this frame, texts are grouped by theme and subject. Each one is the subject of a historical abstract that identifies the text's contents, date of origin, and author. Throughout the first two volumes, introductions outline the evolution of Taoism and its spiritual heritage. A third volume offering biographical sketches of frequently mentioned Taoists, multiple indexes, and an extensive bibliography provides critical tools for navigating this guide to one of the fundamental aspects of Chinese culture |
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2.B.6.a The Dongyuan shenzhou jing |
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Terms, cited works also in Chinese and Pinyin |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Dao zang
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Dao zang. fast (OCoLC)fst01360767 |
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Tao tsang. nli |
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Taoism
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Taoism.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Taoism.
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Taoism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Verellen, Franciscus
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| ISBN |
9780226721064 |
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022672106X |
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