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This title offers a complete annotated translation of the 'Fengdao Keije', accompanied by three introductory chapters that outline the development of Daoist organisations, discuss the date and compilation of the work, and introduce key issues of terminology and world view.

Taoist monasticism and religious orders. --- Taoism --- Monasticism and religious orders, Taoist --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Taoist monasticism and religious orders --- S13A/0401 --- S13A/0403 --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- China: Religion--Rites, magic, festivals --- Monasticism and religious orders, Taoist.

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Over twenty-seven meters long, the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) is an important Ming Dynasty Daoist artifact from the San Diego Museum of Art's collection. It is a record of the imperial ordination of Empress Zhang (1470-1541), consort of the Ming Dynasty Hongzhi emperor (r. 1488-1505), by Zhang Xuanqing (d. 1509), the forty-seventh Heavenly Master of the Zhengyi institution. This book builds a history of imperial ordinations through a detailed examination of the scroll's transcriptions and meticulously painted images of celestial beings, and it examines the influences of the Daoist leaders known as the Zhengyi Heavenly Masters.

Taoist painting --- Painting, Taoist --- Painting --- Zhang huang hou, --- Ordination scroll of Empress Zhang. --- S13A/0401 --- S13A/0403 --- S05/0213 --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- China: Religion--Rites, magic, festivals --- China: Biographies and memoirs--Ming

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Leading scholars examine religious and philosophical dimensions of the Chinese classic known as the Daodejing or Laozi.

Taoism --- Taoist philosophy. --- Filosofie [Taoïstische ] --- Philosophie taoïste --- Philosophy [Taoist ] --- Taoist philosophy --- S12/0500 --- S13A/0401 --- Philosophy, Taoist --- Philosophy --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Laozi and Taoism (incl. Daodejing) --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- Laozi. --- Lao-tzu. --- 老子. --- China --- Lao Zi --- PHILOSOPHY, CHINESE --- LAOZI --- PHILOSOPHY --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Laozi --- Philosophy, chinese

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During the Tang dynasty (618-907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women, from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families, could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy.In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.

Priesterin. --- Tangdynastie. --- Taoism --- Taoism. --- Taoismus. --- Taoist women --- Taoist women. --- History. --- China. --- Women, Taoist --- Women --- History --- S04/0630 --- S11/0710 --- S13A/0401 --- China: History--Sui and Tang: 589 - 907 --- China: Social sciences--Women and gender: general and before 1949 --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- China

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Fabrizio Pregadio extensively examines the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. The main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries).

Taoism --- Alchemy --- Metals, Transmutation of --- Philosophers' egg --- Philosophers' stone --- Stone, Philosophers' --- Transmutation of metals --- Chemistry --- Occultism --- History. --- China --- Religion. --- S13A/0450 --- S13A/0401 --- S19/0400 --- China: Religion--Astrology, fortune-telling, physiognomy, occultism, numerology, divination --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- China: Natural sciences--Chemistry (incl. alchemy) --- Daoism