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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA003973/00001
Notes
- General Note:
- The Dragon and Tiger mountains are the site of a famous Daoist scenic spot located in Guixi county north-east of Jiangxi province, close to Fujian province. It is one of the places where the founder of magical or religious Daoism Zhang Daoling (35-156 AD) spent some time cultivating his Daoist alchemist principles. Zhang Daoling is credited with having perfected the pill of immortality. At the age of sixty upon swallowing it he is said to have become young again, his face being as fresh and rosy as that of a young boy. He worked as a healer to finance his expensive alchemical experiments and attracted a great number of followers. He cured the sick by reciting magical formulae and by serving them sacred water. His fee for such treatment consisted of five pecks of rice, so that the school founded by him also came to be known as Five- Pecks-of-Rice Daoism. Since the reign of emperor Taiwu (424-452 AD) his followers venerated him as a celestial master (tianshi), a title borne by his descendants to this day. The descendants established their headquarters on the Dragon and Tiger mountains, and have since been the undisputed heads of the Daoist religion, in a similar role to that of the Pope. Zhang Daoling is pictured as an old, bearded man riding a tiger. The charm is definitely supposed to protect the owner from illness and evil spirits, and to increase the hope of being able to live a long and healthy life.
- General Note:
- Published reference in: Preliminary list of Chinese woodblock prints in the SOAS Library
- General Note:
- VIAF name authority for "Zhang, Daoling, 34-156" is record number 69758005
- General Note:
- Creative Commons (CC)-Lizenzen: Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 international (CC BY-NC). Dieses Bild ist als in hoher Auflösung zur Verfügung. Kontaktieren Sie den Digital Library Project Office an der SOAS, University of London.
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- Cette ressource numérique est dans le domaine public. S'il vous plaît, utiliser en accord avec la licence Creative Commons: Attribution-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale conditions (CC BY-NC). Fichiers numériques de haute résolution sont disponibles sur la SOAS, Université de Londres - le Bureau du projet de bibliothèque numérique.
- General Note:
- Inked in five colours (red, green, purple, yellow and black)
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Rights Management:
- This item is in the public domain. Please use in accord with Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). High resolution digital master available from SOAS, University of London - the Digital Library Project Office.
- Resource Identifier:
- CWP 46 ( accession number (preliminary list of chinese woodblock prints in the soas library) )
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