TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robson,James
TI  - Power of place: the religious landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) in medieval China 
T2  - Harvard East Asian monographs
SN  - 9780674033320 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - BL1812.M68 R63 2009
U1  - 294.3/36951215 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Mountains
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Taoism
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Relations
KW  - Heiliger Berg
KW  - swd
KW  - Buddhismus
KW  - Taoismus
KW  - Heng Mountain (Hunan Sheng, China)
KW  - China (Süd)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-479) and index; Part I: Situating Nanyue -- 1. Religion and the sacred peaks of China -- 2. Moving mountains: Nanyue in Chinese religious geography -- 3. Imagining Nanyue: physical geography and mythical topography --- Part II: The Daoist and Buddhist histories of Nanyue -- 4. Rising up to paradise: pre-Tang Daoism -- 5. Nanyue in the Tang: local Daoist history -- 6. Lady Wei and the female Daoists of Nanyue -- 7. Local histories, lost monks -- 8. Regional Buddhism during the Tang --- Conclusion
N2  - "Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five mountains were co-opted into the imperial cult and declared sacred peaks, yue, demarcating and protecting the boundaries of the Chinese imperium. The Southern Sacred Peak, or Nanyue, is of interest to scholars not the least because the title has been awarded to several different mountains over the years. The dynamic nature of Nanyue raises a significant theoretical issue of the mobility of sacred space and the nature of the struggles involved in such moves. Another facet of Nanyue is the multiple meanings assigned to this place: political, religious, and cultural. Of particular interest is the negotiation of this space by Daoists and Buddhists. The history of their interaction leads to questions about the nature of the divisions between these two religious traditions." -- Book jacket
ER  -