published_or_final_version / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Finally, the research sketches in more details about Lin Lingsu's background before he set his foot in Beijing; moreover, with referring to a few of compiled works of Taoist rituals, the text gives a terse but adequate description of his reformation of Taoist ritual contents. In conclusion, this thesis probes further into his status among Taoist rituals, and states that the Shenxiao Sect ritual has made a real impact on Lingbao Donghua Sect, which is closely linked with Lin Lingsu's birthplace, Wenzhou. / On the basis of consulting the related academic results and methodologies achieved by Chinese and foreign scholars, the text widely garners materials of all kinds, which include Taoist literature, history records, anthology, notes, and local history as sources in addition to the three most basic and widely-circulated versions of Lin Lingsu's biography. / The research provides several insights into some of the issues that remain debatable to this day. To start with, it reveals that back in early Northern Song Dynasty in Sichuan area there prevailed a Thunder-God register, an affiliate of Celestial Masters' talismans and registers. Also in the discovery is that in anthologies and notes, composed in the same period, in the coastal region to the south of the Yangzi River there existed the depiction of Thunder Troop which was mentioned in the Taoist Canon. All these records show that Thunder Rites not only is the outcome of a distinctive, thunder-roaring climate in the southeast coast of China, but it is also characterized as being intricate, and most importantly it has long been filed in the officially-compiled Taoist Canon. / Then, the research gives a specific and clearer outline of Shenxiao Movement. In the external aspect, it has done an even more comprehensive investigation from different angles: the symbolic meaning that the establishment of Shenxiao Temples represents, the scale and geographical distribution. Internally, the text points out that the Shenxiao teachings has an almost inseparable connection with the Taoism's three traditions, Shangqing, Lingbao and Celestial Masters, in terms of personages, scriptures and rituals etc. What's more important is that Shenxiao teachings, intrinsically, has its ordination practice, scripture and ritual, which greatly qualify the sect as a denomination of the Taoist faith. / This thesis is a case study of Lin Lingsu (1076-1120), a Wenzhou native Taoist priest in Northern Song Dynasty. The text, aimed at the course of his life as well as the religious events, in which he was later involved in Bianjing, delves into the development of Taoism in Northern Song Dynasty---Shenxiao Movement in particular, launched by him during the periods of Zhenghe (1110-1118) and Xuanhe (1119-1125), the reign of Emperor Huizong---and hence the influence as the result of it. In other words, the research builds itself on a network connecting a single personage and time lengthways with events, space and other relevant personages breadthways. Thereafter, it goes further into some issues related with Taoism in Northern Song Dynasty and reevaluates a negative perspective of Lin Lingsu seen in Song History. / 李麗涼. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 240-257). / Adviser: Chi Tim Lai. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0607. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 240-257). / Li Liliang.

published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management

Research materials will be drawn from four sources: various local historical resources, epigraphies, Daoist canon and popular literature like Tang strange writings. The project will make full use of epigraphies of local Daoist monasteries in the area of Chuzhou and local gazetteers of Zhejiang Province which inform historical development of the Ye Fashan cult in the region. / This study begins with the attempts to reconstruct the history of Palace Chapel Daoist Priest Ye Fashan and his Daoist family through analyzing the epigraphies of Ye's father, grandfather and himself. Before he died, Ye donated his houses as Daoist monasteries, which earned the clan's social reputation in the local society of Chuzhou, as well as for his offspring and local Daoist priests in the monasteries. Between the late Tang and the Song period, Ye was later worshiped as both the ancestor and local deity by the Ye clan. Local people even built ancestral temple in the Daoist monastery. Furthermore, Ye also received ample worships in many Daoist monasteries across the Chuzhou region because of his typical cultural hero activities such as making rains and controlling drought. / This thesis endeavors to explore the development of the local cult of Daoist priest Ye Fashan from the Tang Dynasty until the Song Dynasty. It aims at tracing the cult's historical and religious background within an academic context, which emphasizes studying history of Daoism and Daoist immortals in local society. / Ye Fa-shan is revered as a Daoist deity in many hagiographical sources found in the Daoist canon. The image of Ye in the Daoist hagiography is deeply influenced by strange writings and novels flourished in Tang, which emphasize the esoteric activities and thaumaturgy of Ye. His image as a Ritual Master in such narratives actually reflects the religious memory of the Tang people. Ye's esoteric image was further re-figured by new schools of Daoist ritual in the Song period. Ye was believed to be an important initiator of the Fu and Fa which were Daoist techniques to summon spirits and exorcise evils. In this thesis, the purpose of a biographical study of Ye Fashan is to acquire an archeological understanding of a Daoist cult between the Tang and the Song periods. Through an in-depth understanding of the popular literature and Daoist canon, the dissertation will try to reconstruct Ye's multiple images in local imagination and Daoist sources. / 吳真. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 203-218). / Adviser: Chi Tim Lai. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0608. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 203-218). / Wu Zhen.

張澤珣. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2003. / 參考文獻 (p. 171-179). / 中英文摘要. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Zhang Zexun. / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2003. / Can kao wen xian (p. 171-179).

The thesis starts with a biographical study of Tao's life and religious experiences by regarding him as an individual living in given social and cultural milieu, in contrast to the general explanatory model related to the development of Taoism in the medieval China. The purpose of the biographical study is to acquire a sympathetic understanding of Tao's point of view of the revealed texts, which will partly explain why Tao concentrated on the revealed manuscripts. Reading into the exegetic texts, I will reconsider Tao's status in the between of revealed manuscripts and Maoshan Revelations with their own meanings and coherent structures, bases on which new understanding of the relation between Tao and Maoshan Revelations will be elucidated with discovery of Tao's authorship in the formation of the Maoshan Revelations. After textual criticism of the exegetic texts, setting the structure and contexts of Tao's exegesis as the starting point, I will link up the exegetic texts with Tao's other writings to reconstruct his Taoist thoughts. / This thesis examines the Taoist thoughts of Tao Hongjing (456-536) through a detailed analysis of his exegetic work on Maoshan Revelations. I will attempt to figure out the structure and elements of Tao's Taoist thoughts in my reading of the exegesis, and then reconsider Tao's other writings and Taoist practices within the interpretative framework consists of the structure and theological elements found in the exegesis. Thus, this thesis will consider the following questions respectively: how Tao's individual life and mysterious experiences shaped his understanding of revealed manuscripts; Tao's role as compiler and author in the formation of Maoshan Revelations, setting Tao's exegesis within the tension between fragmentary revealed manuscripts and Taoist scriptures with coherent structures and systematical Taoist thoughts; how one can reconstruct and understand Tao's Taoist thoughts through the structure and contents of his exegesis on Maoshan Revelations, within which his Taoist thoughts unfolded. / This work will bring forth an alternative account for Tao as an individual with Taoist belief that based his religious world on revealed Taoist teachings. With the help of biographical study on Tao's mysterious experiences and dreams and reading into the exegesis, the significances of revelations in Tao's Taoist thoughts will be illuminated in following ways: Tao's mysterious experiences made him believe in the authenticity of the revealed teachings; his sympathetic understanding of revealed manuscripts drew him into the exegetic work, within which he unfolded his Taoist thoughts; Tao turned to the revealed teachings of the immortals through meditation when he run into problems during his Taoist practice. / 程樂松. / Sumitted: 2005年12月[Dec. 2005] / Sumitted: 2005 nian 12 yue [Dec. 2005] / Adviser: Chi-tim Lai. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Cheng Lesong.

From the establishment of the Ming to the fall of the Qing (1368--1911), the social and cultural scene of the Chinese countryside was greatly transformed. Lineages became the dominant social organization in many areas. Local temples became a familiar part of the rural landscape. Local culture was increasingly exposed to the influence of regional culture and gentry culture with the proliferation of market towns, the development of the printing industry and the rise of literacy. By investigating the history of ritual specialists and their rituals in a sub-county area in southeast China, this thesis shows how these social and cultural transformations took place and how the local population experienced them. Lisheng or masters of ceremonies, the focus of this thesis, played and still play an important role in the local social and symbolic life. Either along with or in the absence of other ritual specialists, they guided the laity through ritual procedures to communicate with ancestors, gods, and the dead. These rituals, and also the related liturgical texts, were the outcome of social and cultural transformations in the late imperial period. Through a detailed discussion of the history of the three important local institutions that were closely related to lisheng and their rituals, namely, lineages, community compacts, and temple networks, the thesis shows the limitations of the elitist interpretation of late imperial cultural transformations. Cultural integration and gentrification were without doubt important aspects of these processes. However, both may have oversimplified the complexity of the processes and exaggerate the influence of high culture. Cultural hybridization, the process in which elements from different cultural traditions were synthesized into a new, constantly changing cultural mosaic, provides a multipolar, interactional, and thus more complex approach to our understanding of cultural processes in late imperial China.

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羅明輝 = The Taoist ritual music study of Yunnan Jian-chuan Bai people / Ming-hui Luo. / 論文(博士)--香港中文大學, 1998. / 參考文獻 (p. 272-275). / 中英文摘要. / Available also through the Internet via Dissertations & theses @ Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Luo Minghui = The Taoist ritual music study of Yunnan Jian-chuan Bai people / Ming-hui Luo. / Lun wen (bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1998. / Can kao wen xian (p. 272-275). / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.