This book supplements Cosmos & Community by providing additional translations of texts on Daoist rules in five groups:
1. Materials pertaining to the early communities of the Celestial Masters.
2. Works addressed mainly to lay followers, linked with the major medieval schools.
3. Guidelines for medieval monastic organization and behavior.
4. Variant lists of rules in texts from the middle ages through the Ming.
5. Complete Perfection texts that specify modern monastic ways.
Details
- Publication Date
- Mar 10, 2011
- Language
- English
- Category
- Religion & Spirituality
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Livia Kohn
Specifications
- Pages
- 224
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)