Heavenly Masters: Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State

Author:   Vincent Goossaert
Publisher:   The Chinese University Press
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9789882372023


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   30 April 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Vincent Goossaert
Publisher:   The Chinese University Press
Imprint:   The Chinese University Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9789882372023


ISBN 10:   9882372023
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   30 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One Inventing the Founding Ancestor: The Lives of Zhang Daoling 13 Chapter Two The Rise of Longhushan 33 Chapter Three The Heavenly Masters in the History of Daoist Ordinations 53 Chapter Four New Rituals and the Longhushan Synthesis of Modern Daoism 91 Chapter Five The Mature Institution: Longhushan during the Song?Yuan Period 129 Chapter Six The Most Powerful Heavenly Master Ever? The Lives of Zhang Yuchu 157 Chapter Seven The Institution under the Ming and the Qing 185 Chapter Eight The Heavenly Masters and Late Imperial Chinese Society 219 Chapter Nine The Predicaments of Modernity: The Heavenly Masters since the 1850s 265 Conclusion 289 Appendix 1: List of the Heavenly Masters 299 Appendix 2: The Different Versions of the Tiantan yuge 303 Notes 305 Bibliography 375 Index 409

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Although the Heavenly Masters' claim to represent an unbroken tradition almost as old as the papacy is open to question, the Zhangs of Longhushan certainly are heirs to a family legacy comparable to that of the best noble lineages of Europe, and they have exercised a distinctive religious office for more than a millennium. Fragments of their remarkable story have been told before, but now Vincent Goossaert has pieced together the entire narrative, adding another extraordinary first to his many achievements. He has already done much to illuminate change in the history of Chinese religion; in this volume he spectacularly demonstrates its simultaneous capacity for continuity. -T. H. Barrett, SOAS, University of London This book is a tour de force, providing the first synthesis in any Western language of the rise of the institution of the Heavenly Master, its many interactions with the Chinese state, its role in the performance of ordination and the distribution of registers, and its economic basis. It makes use of a wide range of primary sources, including manuscripts, gazetteers, notebooks, and archival material. It also carefully includes the best and most recent secondary research in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. By reasserting the primacy of the Heavenly Master tradition, this path?breaking work will set a new standard for the study of Daoism in Late Imperial China. -Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado, Boulder


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Vincent Goossaert is professor of Daoism and Chinese religions at École Pratique des Hautes Études?PSL.

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