Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (Harvard East Asian Monographs),Used

Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (Harvard East Asian Monographs),Used

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Picturing the True Form investigates the longneglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through the thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenthcentury Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not a static picture, but entails an active journey of 'seeing' underlying and secret phenomena through a series of metamorphoses.This book's structure mirrors the twopart Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for selfcultivation and longevity, while Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other, and the boundary demarcating the two is fluent. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolismaniconic, immaterial, and ephemeraland shows how Daoist imagemaking goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. It is these particular features that distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart.

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