Prof. Gil Raz (Dartmouth College) compiles this collection of images of ancient Daoist stone steles, some inscribed with text and/or images on one side only, others inscribed on four sides.

Apr 8, 2022 · The Daoist images on these stelae are the earliest anthropomorphic images of Lord Lao, the personification of the Dao. This marked a major shift in Daoist practice that counters the hitherto aniconic Daoist ritual that was based on the fundamental notion of …

Apr 8, 2022 · These explorations will also alert us to crucial differences between canonical Daoist texts and Dunhuang manuscripts. Intriguingly, exploring the Buddho-Daoist stele inscriptions will allow us to reconsider the manuscript culture of medieval China.

The stele was completed and erected in San Qing Gong on an auspicious day of autumn 2005. The “daodejing”, is known as the “Book of Dao and its Virtue”, was authored by the great philosopher Lao Zi during the Spring and Autumn period (722 – 481 BCE).

Three steles were erected in the courtyard of the synagogue in Kaifeng. Two of them still exist and are held at the Kaifeng Museum, China. One stele contains two inscriptions: one dated 1489 on the front, and one dated 1512 on the back. The …

"The Yao Boduo Stele as Evidence for the Dao-Buddhism of the Early Lingbao Scriptures," Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 9 (1996), pp. 55-68. As I show in that article, there are several distinctive items of terminology in the inscription to verify that the …

In western-language accounts, the doctrine that the Dao is "formless and without shape" so that Daoists could not legitimately create images of their deities tends to be taken more seriously than it seems to have been by fifth- and sixth-century Daoists.

Rubbing of inscription from a stele commemorating Buddhist monk Daoyin's (586-658) contributions in canon translations while helping famous Buddhist scholar, Xuanzang of the Tang dynasty.

Dec 30, 2021 · According to experts, in the past historical documents, the earliest record of the Zunjian Pavilion stele is the Song Dynasty Hongshi's "Li Shi", which records: "Shu County Taishou He Junge Dao Stele, Guangwu Zhongyuan second year carved this stele, Shu Zhong recently out, the Eastern Han Dynasty LiShusi as the head, the characters are strong ...

In the Lingbao scriptures, the "Disciple of Pure Faith" is one who has just aroused thoughts of the Dao and who must undergo, lacking intercession, nine further rebirths to reach the highest stage of disciplehood, at which point one is assured of a permanent place in the heavens.