Author: Welch, Holmes & Seidel, Anna
Title: Facets of Taoism - Essays in Chinese Religion
Description: London. Yale University. 1979. First Edition. Octavo. Hardcover, Cloth Bound. Near Fine. Fine. 302 Pages. Text in English. A collection of essays on Chinese religion, based on the second Taoism conference held in Tateshina, Japan in 1972. 9 essays are included in this English version. Some were translated from Japanese. These 9 are: 1, The Ideology of the T'ai p'ing ching by Max Kaltenmark, 2. Religious Taoism and popular religion from the Second to Seventh Centuries by Rolf A. Stein, 3. Local Cults around Mount Lu at the Time of Sun En's Rebellion by Hisayuki Miyakawa, 4. K'ou Ch'ien-chih and the Taoist Theocracy at the Northern WEi Court, 425-451 by Richard B. Mather, 5. On the Alchemy of T'ao Hung-ching by Michel Strickmann, 6. The Chinese Belief in Baleful Stars by Ching-lang Hou, 7. Taoist Monastic Life by Yoshitoyo Yoshioka, 8. The formation of the Taoist Canon by Ninji Ofuch, 9. Taoist Studies in Japan by Tadao Sakai and Tetsuro Noguchi.

Keywords: chinese china religion taoism