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Title |
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Daoist Writs and Scriptures as Sacred Beings - Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Jihyun Kim; Seoul National University; Republic of Korea |
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Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
sacred texts; sacred books; ritual; sacred bodies; embodied religion; Kali; Tantric; Qur'an; saint; Seolwi-seolgyeong; Gandhara; Dao; icon |
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Subject |
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Sacred Texts |
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Description |
Abstract |
There is a mystical tendency in many religious traditions to consider their scriptures transcendent in one way or another. There are, for example, old Jewish and Muslim claims that the prototype of the Torah or Qurʾan was written by God at the creation of the world and continues to reside in heaven. Jihyun Kim describes how Daoists made an even more fundamental claim. They regarded their scriptures as embodying qi, the fundamental energy of the cosmos. It produced scripts and scriptures even before the creation of the world, and the look and sound of sacred texts brought it into being. Daoist ritual uses of scripture therefore aimed to engage a transcendent and primordial state of being. |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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18-Oct-2021 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38097 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38097 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |