The Cavern-Mystery Transmission A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711
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 ordi...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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University of Hawai'i Press
1991
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| Series: | Asian Studies at Hawaii
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |