The Other Dao in Town: Early Lingbao Polemics on Shangqing

Abstract

What attention has been paid to the issue of Daoist polemics has tended to focus on the conflict and competition of the Buddho-Daoist debates involving northern Celestial Masters during the Northern Wei (386-534 CE.) recorded in 520, the Northern Zhou (557-588) in 570 and reoccurring in the Tang Dynasty with the debates of the Daoist Fu Yi in 621-23 and Li Zhongqing held in 626. However, as Erik Zurcher has noted these often contemptuous and accusatory anti-Buddhist polemics are surprisingly absent from early Daoist scriptures

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1025298

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