9. My Back Pages: The Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters Revisited

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Conventions for Frequently Cited Works 7
4. Introduction 9
5. 1. Brushing Past Rainbows: Religion and Poetry in the Xu Mi Stele 19
6. 2. Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way 41
7. 3. The Vicarious Angler: Gao Pian’s Daoist Poetry 63
8. 4. Traces of the Way : The Poetry of “Divine Transcendence” in the Northern Song Anthology Literature’s Finest (Wen cui 文粹) 87
9. 5. A Re-examination of the Second Juan of the Array of the Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure 太上靈寶五符序 109
10. 6. “True Forms” and “True Faces”: Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images 133
11. 7. After the Apocalypse: The Evolving Ethos of the Celestial Master Daoists 161
12. 8. Shangqing Scriptures as Performative Texts 175
13. 9. My Back Pages: The Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters Revisited 197
14. 10. Taking Stock 221
15. Epilogue: Traversing the Golden Porte – The Problem with Daoist Studies 241
16. Index 259