Religions of China in practice / Donald S. Lopez, Jr., editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the spirits of Chinese religion / Stephen F. Teiser -- Deities and ancestors in early oracle inscriptions / Robert Eno -- Laozi : ancient philosopher, master of immortality, and God / Livia Kohn -- The lives and teachings of the Divine Lord of Zitong / Terry F. Kleeman -- City gods and their magistrates / Angela Zito -- The earliest tales of the Bodhisattva Guanshiyin / Robert Ford Campany -- A Sūtra promoting the white-robed Guanyin as giver of sons / Chūn-fang Yū -- Zhu Xi on spirit beings / Daniel K. Gardner -- The inner cultivation tradition of early Daoism / Harold D. Roth -- Body gods and inner vision : the scripture of the yellow court ; An early poem of mystical excursion / Paul W. Kroll -- Declarations of the perfected / Stephen Bokenkamp -- Seduction songs of one of the perfected / Paul W. Kroll -- Answering a summons / Stephen Bokenkamp -- Visions of Mañjuśrī on Mount Wutai / Daniel Stevenson -- Ny Dan the Manchu Shamaness / Kun Shi -- Teachings of a spirit medium / Jean DeBernardi -- Spellbinding / Donald Harper -- Record of the Feng and Shan sacrifices / Stephen Bokenkamp -- The scripture on the production of Buddha images / Robert H. Sharf -- The purification ritual of the luminous perfected / Stephen Bokenkamp -- Saving the burning-mouth hungry ghost / Charles Orzech -- The law of the spirits / Valerie Hansen -- Shrines to local former worthies / Ellen Neskar -- Daoist ritual in contemporary Southeast China / Kenneth Dean -- Calling on souls and dealing with spirits : three Lahu ritual texts / Anthony R. Walker -- A funeral chant of the Yi nationality / Mark Bender -- Abridged codes of Master Lu for the Daoist community / Peter Nickerson -- The scripture in forty-two sections / Robert H. Sharf -- The scripture on perfect wisdom for humane kings who wish to protect their states / Charles Orzech -- The Buddhism of the cultured elite / Peter N. Gregory -- Buddhist ritual and the state / Albert Welter -- Biography of a Buddhist layman / Alan J. Berkowitz -- The book of good deeds : a scripture of the Ne people / Victor H. Mair -- Supernatural retribution and human destiny / Cynthia Brokaw -- Stories from an illustrated explanation of the Tract of the most exalted on action and response / Catherine Bell -- Record of occultists / Alan J. Berkowitz -- Imperial guest ritual / James L. Hevia.