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The empress and the heavenly masters [electronic resource] :a study of the Ordination scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) / Luk Yu-ping.

By: Luk, Yu Ping, 1978- [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Daoist studies series: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Hong Kong [China] : Chinese University Press, [2015] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xvi, 258 pages) :) illustrations (some color).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789629968151; 9629968150.Subject(s): Zhang huang hou, Consort of Ming Xiaozhong, Emperor of China, 1470-1541 -- Portraits | Ordination scroll of Empress Zhang | Taoist painting -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Chronology of the Ming Dynasty -- Introduction -- part one. Historical perspectives -- Imperial ordinations -- Empress Zhang -- The heavenly masters -- part two. Analysis of the Ordination scroll -- Aspects of the Ordination scroll -- Celestial beings in the Ordination scroll -- Inscriptions -- Conclusion 153 -- Appendix A. Titles of the celestial beings -- Appendix B. Translation of the main inscription -- Appendix C. Transcription of the main inscription.
Summary: 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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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-250) and index.

Chronology of the Ming Dynasty -- Introduction -- part one. Historical perspectives -- Imperial ordinations -- Empress Zhang -- The heavenly masters -- part two. Analysis of the Ordination scroll -- Aspects of the Ordination scroll -- Celestial beings in the Ordination scroll -- Inscriptions -- Conclusion 153 -- Appendix A. Titles of the celestial beings -- Appendix B. Translation of the main inscription -- Appendix C. Transcription of the main inscription.

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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