The Empress and the Heavenly Masters

The Empress and the Heavenly Masters
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Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9629968150
ISBN-13 : 9789629968151
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Book Synopsis The Empress and the Heavenly Masters by : Yu Ping Luk

Download or read book The Empress and the Heavenly Masters written by Yu Ping Luk and published by . This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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