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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