The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711

dc.contributor.author Benn, Charles D.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-06-05T20:13:05Z
dc.date.available 2019-06-05T20:13:05Z
dc.date.issued 1991
dc.description.sponsorship Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
dc.identifier.isbn 9780824880859
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62911
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subject PHILOSOPHY / Taoist
dc.title The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711
dc.type book
dcterms.description Very little scholarly research has been done on the institutional structure of Taoism in medieval times. With this study of investiture, Benn attempts to fill that void. He describes the mechanism by which the Taoist priesthood ordered and perpetuated itself, as revealed in a rare account of an ordination rite for two T'ang princesses. He examines the lives of the participants, the hierarchy of the clergy, the liturgy, and the significance of the altar and its furnishings, and discusses other works of Chang Wan-fu, who authored this account.
dcterms.extent 206 Pages
dcterms.language eng
dcterms.publisher Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
dcterms.type text
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