1. The Three Grottoes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Titles from the Daoist Canon xiii
6. Abbreviations xix
7. Part I. Translators’ Introduction
8. Background 3
9. Chapter One. Thirty-One Fascicles: 11 Cataloguing Scriptures of the Heavens 11
10. Chapter Two. Three Ones: 29 A Stereoscopic View of a Daoist Hagiography 29
11. Chapter Three. Five Stars: 55 Remaking Daoist Ritual 55
12. Chapter Four. Nine Palaces: 77 Later Reconstructions of Upper Clarity 77
13. Chapter Five. Three Hundred Fascicles: 99 Rethinking the Authorship of Daoist Scriptures 99
14. Conclusion 127
15. 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)
16. 1. The Three Grottoes 133
17. 2. The Nine Palaces 159
18. 3. The Three Ones 183
19. 4. Three [Palaces] and Nine [Openings] 217
20. 5. Illustrious Code of the Nine Perfected 231
21. Notes 283
22. Bibliography 331
23. Index 345