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Images of the Immortal
The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy
- First published1999
- TraditionTaoism & Chinese Religion
- Shelf119 books
A study of the Yongle gong temple complex in Shanxi and its fourteenth-century murals of the immortal Lü Dongbin. Katz shows how different groups, from Quanzhen clergy to local worshippers, understood the same divine figure in different ways.
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