Religion and Poetry in Medieval China : The Way and the Words (Paperback)

Introduction (Gil Raz and Anna M. Shields), Part 1: Poetry, 1. Brushing Past Rainbows: Religion and Poetry in the Xu Mi Stele (Jonathan Pettit), 2.Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way (Paul W. Kroll), 3.Gao Pian: Poet and Patron (Franciscus Verellen), 4.Traces of the Way: The Poetry of Divine Transcendence in the Northern Song Anthology Literature's Finest (Anna M. Shields), Part II: Visuality and Materiality, 1. A Reexamination of the Second Chapter of the Array of the Five Talismans (Wang Zongyu), 2. True Forms and True Faces: Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images (Gil Raz), Part III: Texts and Contexts, 1. After the Apocalypse: The Evolving Ethos of the Celestial Master Daoists (Terry Kleeman), 2. Shangqing Scriptures as Performative Texts (Robert Ford Company), 3. The Sutra in Forty-Two Chapters: Beyond the Buddhist Canon (James Robson), 4.Taking Stock: The Scholarship of Daoism in Recent Decades (John Lagerwey),Epilogue,Traversing the Golden Porte: Problems with Daoist Studies (Stephen R. Bokenkamp)