The Empress and the Heavenly Masters: A Study of the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493)
The Empress and the Heavenly Masters: A Study of the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) by Luk Yu-Ping
English | June 7, 2016 | ISBN: 9629966530 | True PDF | 220 pages | 33.97 MB
English | June 7, 2016 | ISBN: 9629966530 | True PDF | 220 pages | 33.97 MB
Over twenty-seven meters long, the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) is an important Ming Dynasty Daoist artifact from the San Diego Museum of Art's collection. It is a record of the imperial ordination of Empress Zhang (1470–1541), consort of the Ming Dynasty Hongzhi emperor (r. 1488–1505), by Zhang Xuanqing (d. 1509), the forty-seventh Heavenly Master of the Zhengyi institution.
This book builds a history of imperial ordinations through a detailed examination of the scroll's transcriptions and meticulously painted images of celestial beings, and it examines the influences of the Daoist leaders known as the Zhengyi Heavenly Masters.