Daoism and Landscape: Unruly Landmarks, Punitive Rituals, and Ecology
The Daoist role within traditional Chinese human/nature relationships has often been characterized as one that aims at achieving harmony with nature. This article challenges many of the basic assumptions regarding the harmony model, focusing instead on the rich trove of judicial rituals that Daoist...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2024
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-113 |
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| Summary: | The Daoist role within traditional Chinese human/nature relationships has often been characterized as one that aims at achieving harmony with nature. This article challenges many of the basic assumptions regarding the harmony model, focusing instead on the rich trove of judicial rituals that Daoist adepts had at their disposition for disciplining, correcting, or punishing elements of the landscape. A substantial part of these rituals was underpinned by Daoist legal codes from the Celestial Heart (Tianxin) tradition that emerged during the eleventh century and spread more widely soon after. Of the subjects these codices target, the present article focuses on trees, rocks, mountains, dragons, and certain animals. A picture emerges of stringent approaches to achieve order in the natural world, based on Celestial Laws, enforced by ritual officials. Throughout all these rituals, however, runs the idea of a landscape that is brimming with purpose, agency, responsibility, and divinity. 摘要: 在傳統中國的人與自然關係中，道教常被描述為追求與自然和諧相處的角色。本文通過關注道士用來規範、糾正、懲罰自然界的豐富司法儀式，挑戰了許多有關此和諧模式的基本假設。這些儀式中相當一部分是由在十一世紀出現並在此後較快傳播的天心正法傳統的道教律法所支撐的。這些律法所針對的對象包括樹木、岩石、山脈、龍和某些動物。由此浮現出一幅基於由法官執行嚴厲的律法來實現自然界秩序的圖景。然而，在所有這些儀式中，都貫穿一種自然界充滿目的性、主體性、責任和神聖性的理念。 |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8999 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2024.a928801 |