Imperiled Destinies examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a liturgical organization that engaged vigorously with Buddhism and transformed Chinese thinking about suffering, the nature of evil, and the aims of liberation. In the fifth century, elements of classical Daoism combined with Indian yogic practices to interiorize the quest for deliverance. The medieval record portrays a world engulfed by evil, where human existence was mortgaged from birth and burdened by increasing debts and obligations in this world and the next. Against this gloomy outlook, Daoism offered ritual and sacramental instruments capable of acting on the unseen world, providing therapeutic relief and ecstatic release from apprehensions of death, disease, war, spoilt harvests, and loss. Drawing on prayer texts, liturgical sermons, and experiential narratives, Franciscus Verellen focuses on the Daoist vocabulary of bondage and redemption, the changing meanings of sacrifice, and metaphoric conceptualizations bridging the visible and invisible realms. The language of medieval supplicants envisaged the redemption of an imperiled destiny as debt forgiveness, and deliverance as healing, purification, release, or emergence from darkness into light.
0 有用 momo 2023-02-22 12:11:03 美国
两年后重读,学术审美变了好多,才品到作者的语言和表达的意象都好美🥺
0 有用 老吴 2019-12-10 11:35:03
有点三论的意思。
0 有用 gingababa.saru 2024-06-07 22:31:05 美国
[重讀補標]原本只為讀青詞在唐末的變化,但其實那一節還是17年的專文寫得更為透徹。整本書的脈絡很清晰,研究的是道教早期開始的如何擺脫個人厄運的方式和邏輯的演化,主要聚焦「上章」在這個過程中扮演的角色。以《赤松子曆章》開路,陸修靜的系統性改革,最後到達杜光庭的融合嘗試,大概說明了天師道以上章儀式取代血食、靈寶齋救贖的內在模式(如何解讀“根”、“報”、“贖”、“解”相對應的意涵?)、以及唐末開始道團內... [重讀補標]原本只為讀青詞在唐末的變化,但其實那一節還是17年的專文寫得更為透徹。整本書的脈絡很清晰,研究的是道教早期開始的如何擺脫個人厄運的方式和邏輯的演化,主要聚焦「上章」在這個過程中扮演的角色。以《赤松子曆章》開路,陸修靜的系統性改革,最後到達杜光庭的融合嘗試,大概說明了天師道以上章儀式取代血食、靈寶齋救贖的內在模式(如何解讀“根”、“報”、“贖”、“解”相對應的意涵?)、以及唐末開始道團內部如何整合世俗法術。沒有很深,但其實提到了一些關於“罪”的想法很有啟發,在跨宗教和跨文化的語境下很值得深挖。 題外話,不由感慨傅老師文如其人,穩重甚至冷峻,言辭扎實內斂,有的放矢,也不大看得出很強的預設,與祁老師的濟公形象與攻擊性文風形成鮮明對比( (展开)