Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in the study of Daoism especially in Japan, China and the West, with a new generation of scholars broadening our understanding of the religion. Including contributions from the foremost scholars in the field, Daoism in History presents new and important research.
These essays honour one of the pioneers of Daoist studies, Emeritus Professor Liu Ts'un-yan. His major essay 'Was Celestial Master Zhang a Historical Figure?' addresses one of the pivotal questions in the entire history of Daoism and is included here as the...
Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in the study of Daoism especially in Japan, China and the West, with a new generation of scho...
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primany historiographical and literary genre, yet the study of religious biographies in these traditions has been an area of relative neglect.
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primany historiographical and literary genre, yet the study of religious biographies in these ...
In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights activists and is regularly discussed in dealings between the Chinese government and itsWestern counterparts. But while much has been written on Falun Gong s relation to political issues, no one has analyzed in depth what its practitioners actually believe and do."The Religion of Falun Gong" remedies that omission, providing the first serious...
In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong...
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to an understudied but central corpus of material in Chinese and Tibetan religion.
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, takin...
