Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen edited this University of Chicago Press reference work, a three volume scholarly companion describing and dating every text contained in the Zhengtong Daozang, the 1445 Ming dynasty Taoist canon, and its 1607 supplement. Its strength is comprehensiveness achieved through genuine specialist collaboration, a team of Taoist studies scholars worked through the entire canon text by text, making it the standard reference for identifying and dating any individual work within this enormous corpus. Its limit is that it is a bibliographic and historical companion to the canon's texts, describing what each text is and when it was likely composed, rather than a translation or exposition of any one text's actual content, which a reader wanting the substance of a specific scripture needs to seek separately.
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AuthorKristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen (eds.)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication Year2004
URLhttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo3533948.html
Source TypeEdited volume
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Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen's edited University of Chicago Press companion describing and dating every text in the Taoist canon, the reference work for the field. NotesThree volumes describing and dating every text in the Zhengtong Daozang of 1445 and its 1607 supplement. The reference work for the Taoist canon.
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This source backs 49 claims across the atlas. As facts: 27 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 8 holds, 2 held Differently. Plus 11 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Scriptures & Texts, 12 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Events, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Denominations, 4 claims: 2 held Differently, 2 general references.
- Prayers, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Esoteric Texts, 3 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 2 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Sacred Sound, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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