Affiliation and transmission in Daoism
Subtitle: a Berlin Symposium
By: edited by Florian C. Reiter
Series: Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Bd. 78; Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Bd. 78.
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783447067614
Subjects: Taoism; Congresses; Taoismus
Notes: Symposium sponsored by the Department of Sinology at Humboldt University in Berlin in June 2011: foreword, p. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references.

9 English, 3 Chinese contributions.
Table of contents: title: Modes of affiliation and transmission : Early Quanzhen Daoism and Daoist thunder magic / Florian C. Reiter; title: "Take charge of households and convert the citizenry" : the parish priest in Celestial Master transmission / Terry Kleeman; title: Canonical fasts according to Lu Xiujing / John Lagerwey; title: Ordination ranks in medieval Daoism and the classificaiton of Daoist rituals / Lu Pengzhi; title: Transmissions of a female Daoist : Xie Ziran (767-795) / Stephen Bokenkamp; title: Lineage, hagiography and teaching : The Daoist School of Eastern Florescence in Song and Yuan dynasties / Hsieh Shuwei; title: Nocturnal invocation and installation of officiants : difficulties encountered in Purification Rites of the Numinous Treasure Sect during the Tang and Song and adaptive response to them / Chang Chagjan; title: Transmission ritual of local Daoists in Southeast China / Tam Wai-Lun; title: The development of Jiangnan Daoist networks of transmission and affiliation as seen in the Mount Weiyu genealogy / Paul R. Katz; title: The transmission of Daoist registers and the climbing of the knife-ladder : the 63rd Heavenly Master Zhang Enpu in Taiwan (1950-1969) and the reorganisation of Daoism / Lee Fongmao; title: Son of man or son of God? The spirit medium in Chinese popular religion / Lin Wei-Ping; title: The study of secret knowledge transmission in Daoist altars : how "The Origin and Development of Daoism" has been transmitted in South Taiwan / Hsieh Tsung-Hui