Book Name: Empowered writing: exorcistic and apotropaic rituals in medieval China

Classification: 221/BSP

Type: Books

Author: Stephan Peter Bumbacher

Publisher: Three Pines Press

Publish Date: 2012

ISBN/ISSN: ISBN 978-1-931483-23-0

Type: 流通 In Circulation

Notes:

Book Brief: Empowered Writing explores the inherent powers of Chinese talismans, petitions, registers, and holy scriptures, presenting a systematic study of their exorcistic and apotropaic properties. Using a vast arsenal of original sources, the book traces the unfolding and transformation of empowered writing from the Warring States period through the Six Dynasties, closely examining the different kinds of writing, their uses, and interpretation as well as relating uniquely Daoist features to imperial and Buddhist usages. The book is pathbreaking in its endeavor and stunning in its depth of analyis. It is a must for all China historians and scholars of religion.