Images of the immortal : the cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy
"The Palace of Eternal Joy (Yongle gong) is a mammoth cult site dedicated to late imperial China's most popular deity, Lu Dongbin. Paul Katz focuses on the Palace's role in the development of Lu's legend. This approach takes into account the various "histories" of the Palace presented in different texts and surpasses previous scholarship by stressing the ways in which the site both reflected and produced cultural diversity
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, HI, 1999
XVI, 309 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm
9780824821708, 082482170X
245816039
| Preface | ix | ||||
| Notes on Citation and Transliteration | xiii | ||||
| Periods of Chinese History | xv | ||||
| Abbreviations | xvi | ||||
| Introduction | 1 | (23) | |||
| 24 | (28) | |||
| 52 | (42) | |||
| 94 | (37) | |||
| 131 | (46) | |||
| 177 | (26) | |||
| 195 | (8) | |||
| Appendix A Stele Inscriptions at the Palace of Eternal Joy | 203 | (8) | |||
| Appendix B Hagiographic Murals in the Hall of Purified Yang | 211 | (14) | |||
| Notes | 225 | (22) | |||
| Glossary | 247 | (10) | |||
| Bibliography | 257 | (42) | |||
| Index | 299 |