What Do the Lingbao Celestial Scripts Tell Us about Some Fundamental Characteristics of Daoism?

Toward the end of the Eastern Jin 東晉 (317–420) and the beginning of the Liu Song 劉宋 (420–479) Dynasties, a series of scriptures, what we now know as the ancient Lingbao scriptures (gu Lingbao jing 古靈寶經), emerged. The texts contained various kinds of celestial scripts, which were regarded as the arch...

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Main Author: Lü, Pengzhi 1969- (Author)
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 9
Further subjects:B ancient Lingbao scriptures
B Lingbao celestial scripts
B Buddhism
B Daoist philosophy
B Daoism
B Catalogue of Lingbao Scriptures
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