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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Series Editors’ Preface vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Conventions xiii
- Introduction 1
- Chapter One. The Writ in Early Medieval Southern China 17
- Chapter Two. The Religious Life of Objects The Talismans of the Writ and Their Surviving Fragments 49
- Chapter Three. Beyond Talismans Alchemy, Charts, and Meditation in Relation to the Writ 83
- Chapter Four. From Local Lore to Universal Dao The Cavern of Divinity and the Early Daoist Canon 121
- Chapter Five. The Writ and Its Corpus The Rise and Fall of the Cavern of Divinity in Institutional Daoism 155
- Conclusion 193
- Appendix 1. List of Variant Titles for the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) in Early Medieval Sources 215
- Appendix 2. Synopsis of the Principal Six Dynasties Sources Containing Fragments of the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) and Its Oral Instructions 219
- Appendix 3. Comparative List of Talismans from the “Essential Instructions from the Western Citadel on the Great Characters in Celestial Script of the Three Sovereigns” (Xicheng yaojue sanhuang tianwen dazi) and the “Essential functions of the Three Sovereigns” (Sanhuang yaoyong pin) 225
- Appendix 4. Comparative Inventory of Transmission Gages Associated with the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) 231
- Notes 237
- Works Cited 317
- Index 355
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Series Editors’ Preface vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Conventions xiii
- Introduction 1
- Chapter One. The Writ in Early Medieval Southern China 17
- Chapter Two. The Religious Life of Objects The Talismans of the Writ and Their Surviving Fragments 49
- Chapter Three. Beyond Talismans Alchemy, Charts, and Meditation in Relation to the Writ 83
- Chapter Four. From Local Lore to Universal Dao The Cavern of Divinity and the Early Daoist Canon 121
- Chapter Five. The Writ and Its Corpus The Rise and Fall of the Cavern of Divinity in Institutional Daoism 155
- Conclusion 193
- Appendix 1. List of Variant Titles for the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) in Early Medieval Sources 215
- Appendix 2. Synopsis of the Principal Six Dynasties Sources Containing Fragments of the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) and Its Oral Instructions 219
- Appendix 3. Comparative List of Talismans from the “Essential Instructions from the Western Citadel on the Great Characters in Celestial Script of the Three Sovereigns” (Xicheng yaojue sanhuang tianwen dazi) and the “Essential functions of the Three Sovereigns” (Sanhuang yaoyong pin) 225
- Appendix 4. Comparative Inventory of Transmission Gages Associated with the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) 231
- Notes 237
- Works Cited 317
- Index 355