Yuping Luk

Th e Empress and the Heavenly Masters (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 that records the imperial ordination of Empress Zhang (1470-1541), consort of the Ming Dynasty Hongzhi emperor (r. 1488-1505), by Zhang Xuanqing (d. 1509), the fortyseventh Heavenly Master of the Zhengyi institution. This book uncovers the history of imperial ordinations through a detailed examination of the scroll's transcriptions and the meticulouslypainted images of celestial beings, as well as the influences of the Daoist leaders known as the Zhengyi Heavenly Masters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• ISBN-13: 9789629968151
• Artikelnr.: 72338700

Autorenporträt

?Luk Yu-ping is curator of Chinese Collections in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.