Loading…
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Peking Taoists in Their Context
  • The Taoist Temple Clergy
  • The Taoists of the Baiyun Guan
  • Monastic Leadership
  • Taoists and the Court: Chaplains and Eunuchs
  • The Liturgical Functions of the Taoist Clergy
  • Taoist Masters and Spiritual Teachings
  • Conclusion
  • A Brief History of Taoist Death Rituals
  • The Taoist Canon in Late Imperial and Modern Peking
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs.