Yutan fabiao (Announcement of the Jade Altar), 308–9n3
;
Zaochao (Morning Audience) 235
Daoist talismans (fu),. 101
,
108zhenwen
daojiao (teaching of the Way) 1
Daojiao yishu (Pivot of Meanings in Daoism) 275–276
Daozang biyao (Secret Essentials of the Daoist Canon) 248–250
Davis, Edward L. 266n83
de (power, virtue): very real (shenzhen) 91
Dean, Kenneth: the ritual event 297–98n9
Deleuze, Gilles, 25
;
Greeks and “Orientals”, 25
;
the event 118–119
,
297–98n9
Delphi, the oracle in: three fundamental precepts 28
Deng tianjun (Celestial Lord Deng) 257
Derrida, Jacques: antiontology, 224
,
278–279
;
the force of images, 224–226
;
metaphysics of presence, 226
;
on unity as violence 223
Descartes, René 169–170
diagonalization 2
,
6
,
7
Ding Huang 232
divine elixir (Shendan) 179
divine identity, 27
,
74
,
167–168
;
assuming the identity of a high god in ritual, 215
;
narratives of, 302n2
;
identity spirits 267
divine presence 137
,
156
Diyi (Imperial One) 69
,
70
Dongxuan lingbao sando ng fengdaokejieyingshi (Regulations for the Practice of Daoism in Accordance with the Three Caverns of the Dongxuan lingbao Tradition) 277–278
Door of Earth (Dihu) 157
Du Guangting 179
,
182
duplicity 268–269
Duren jing (Scripture for the Salvation of Mankind) 82–83
,
100
,
122
,
246–248
,
295–96n81
Durkheim, Ēmile 167
ego, the, 33
;
false being, 23
;
Lacan, 23
;
narcissism of 74
ego psychology, American 23
epimeleiaheautou. seesouci-de-soi
event, the: in Badiou’s philosophy, 118–122
;
in Daoism, 119–121
;
historical 122
exception (to social reality) 6
,
37
,
38
,
55
exemplification: in images and symbols, 140–141
;
in literature 140–141
ex-istence 55
existentialism, 41
,
55
;
and Søren Kierkegaard 4
eye-opening ceremony. seekaiguang
fa 法 (methods/rituals) 1
Fahaiyizhu (Residual Pearls from the Sea of Methods) 269
faith: and Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 5
Falu (Lighting the Incense Burner) 72–73
,
78
fanshen (ordinary self). see self, the
fashi (ritual master) 268
female, the: associated with water, 181
merely metaphorical, 181
the mysterious female (Xuanpin), 181
quality of the primordial substance 181
Fendeng (Division of the Lamps) 82
Fengshen yanyi (Canonization of the Gods) 190
,
191
folding, 20–21
;
Deleuze, Gilles 28
forgetting (wang), 29
,
209
,
212
;
sitting and forgetting (zuowang), 212
;
true forgetting (zhenwang) 212
Foucault, Michel, 25–28
,
54–55
,
74–75
;
Hermeneutique du sujet26
,
286n44
Four Books (of Confucianism), 35
;
Zhongyong210
,
211
,
250
Freedberg, David 161
freedom, 6
;
the essence of truth, 13
,
40
;
source of, . 41subject, the
Freud, Sigmund: the unconscious 23
Fumo jing (Scripture for Subduing Demons) 270–271
,
273
fuzhang (submitting the petition), 83
,
232–238
;
of Cangnan (Zhejiang), 244–245
;
of Chen Rongsheng, 244–248
;
in history, 239–243
;
Lingbao fuzhang , 246–248
;
as moving the breath (yunqi), 244
;
as truth-event, 232–233
;
visualizations during, 246–248
;
of the Zeng family 248–250
,
253
Gangfeng (Dipper Winds) 240–241
,
248
gaodou (reporting to the Dipper) 250–251
gaogong (the One of High Merit) 117–118
Gate of Heaven (Tianmen), 69
,
118
,
157
;
Tianguan 126
gate of many wonders (Zhongmiao zhi men) 132
GeChaofu 99
Ge Hong 99–100
,
105–106
God: as creator, 302n3
;
as One, 168
;
the true personal 75
God-Man (Christ) 3
,
39
gongcao (merit officials) 157
gongfu (martial arts exercises) 235
Goodman, Nelson 140–141
Graham, A. C., 288–89n11
;
the later Mohists 48
Grootaers, Willem A. 189–191
GuYanwu 55–56
,
291n53
Guanyin (Avalokitesvara) 174
gui (to return) 55
,
291n47
guishan (returning to the mountain) 116
Gun (father of Yu) 128
Guo Xiang 91
Gushen (Spirit of the Valley) 181
,
234
Hadot, Pierre 54
,
286n44
Hall, David L., and Roger T. Ames, 14
;
global intuition, 21
;
Thinkingfrom the Han , 18
,
22
,
283n11
;
way-making 87
Han Feizi59
Harper, Donald 58
Harris, R. Baine 222
Hegel, G. W. F. 45
,
153
Heidegger, Martin 13
,
41
Heisha (Black Killer) 120
,
141–142
Hinduism 302n3
hongtou (red–head) priests 134
,
136
Hu Anguo 35
Huainan zi187
Huang Chengshu (Yixing zi): recitation of the Yushu jing , 49
;
Yixing zi Yushu huowen (Some Questions to Yixing zi concerning the Yushu jing) 200–201
,
211–212
Huangshuguodu yi (Initiation Ritual of the Yellow Book) 298n18
huashen (transformation body) 194
Hubler, J. Noel 221–222
Huizong, emperor of Song: identified with Nanji changsheng dadi 217
ontological status of the inner journey to heaven, 242–243
;
paradoxical, 3–4
,
137
;
subtractive, 6
,
85
,
294n51
;
ti and yong , 243
;
of the Way, 9
,
165
;
of the Western world 76
,
223–226
,
278
oracle: in Delphi 28
,
51
,
54
,
56
,
153
oracle bone divination 51–52
,
53
,
56–57
,
64
ordinary people (changren) 35
Orientals.See Deleuze, Gilles
orthopraxy 281
Oxford English Dictionary22
paradox, 2–4
;
the absolute paradox, 5
;
of Christianity, 3
,
5
;
Classical Western, 5
;
of existence, 38
;
ontological, 5
;
the paradoxical real, 228–229
;
of presence, 226–228
;
principle of contradiction, 15
;
Russell’s, 5
;
true being (zhen) 77
Parmenides 119
participant-observation 117
Patton, Kimberley 3
Peijun (Lord Pei) 93
,
96
,
99
phenomenology: of appearance, 8
;
of Daoist ritual, 113
,
117
;
first–person perspective, 117
;
of the One 9
philosophy: American pragmatism, 14
,
22
;
Chinese as alternative to Western, 14
,
19
,
287n58
;
existential, 29
,
281
;
internal foreignness of, 40
;
Neopla-tonic, 221
;
process philosophy, 88
;
and universality, 6
,
283n14
;
a way of life, 54–55
;
Western 1–2
,
4
,
32
,
33
physiological techniques 57–58
Plato: Alcibiades26
,
74–75
Plotinus, 221–222
;
on images 222
Popper, Karl 289n13
portents 57
Posterior Heavens (Houtian) 9
,
134
,
202
,
244
postmodernism 43
precepts, 27
;
Confucius (Lunyu), 33
,
287n60
;
the oracle in Delphi, 28
for personal cultivation, 25–27
;
the ten, 30
;
of the Way, 189
;
Yushu jing28–29
Prior Heavens (Xiantian) 9
,
134
,
202
propositions 44
,
47–49
Protestant Christianity 281
Psukhē (the soul) 75
Puhua tianzun (Celestial Worthy of Universal Transformation), 136–137
,
172
,
175–176
,
206–208
,
213–214
;
giving his body to those who deny him (yishen shen zhi), 206
,
208
;
history of, 188–193
;
identifying with Puhua tianzun, 208
,
213–215
Jiutian yingyuan leisheng puhua tianzun (Celestial Worthy of the Nine Heavens Responding to the Prime Who Transforms All through the Sound of Thunder), 190
;
Jiutian zhenming dasheng (Pure and Bright Great Saint of the Nine Heavens), 193
Jiutian zhenwu (Zhenwu of the Nine Heavens), 189
;
grasping the breaths of the Nine Heavens, 195
,
196
,
198
;
riding on a phoenix, 177
,
178 fig. 7
;
riding on a qilin (unicorn), 177
,
195
,
237
;
with a third eye, 195
;
ti and yong forms, 176–177
,
194–196
,
200–202
,
305n68
;
Puhua tianzun, temples for: Jiutian gong (Palace of the Nine Heavens), 190
;
Jiutian leizu miao (Temple of the Thunder Ancestor of the Nine Heavens), 190
;
Jiutian xinggong (Branch Palace of the Nine Heavens), 190
;
Leizun dian (Hall of the Thunder Worthy), 201
;
Nan Zhenwu temples, 189
;
Xianling gong (Palace for Manifesting Spiritual Power) 203
qi (breath), 73
,
76–85
;
daoqi (breath of the Way), 179
,
183
,
184
;
fanqi (Brahma breath, 107
,
296n91
;
heqi (uniting the breaths), 77
;
Jiutian qi (breaths of the Nine Heavens), 195
;
sanqi (three breaths), 73
,
81
;
Sanqizhengshen (Correct Spirits of the Three Breaths), 79
;
Santian qi (breaths of the Three Heavens), 78
,
79
;
shengqi (life-giving breath), 78
,
162
;
Taiyi qi (breath of the Great One), 179
;
xiantian yiqi (the one breath of the Prior Heavens), 196–197
,
274
;
yinqi (the female breath), 93
;
yiqi (the one breath),, yuanqi (primordial breath), 84
,
196–197171
,
181
,
240
,
296n91
;
yunqi (moving the breath), 244
;
zuqi (ancestral breath) 107
,
197
,
296n91
Qian Zhicai, secret manual of 260
qilin (unicorn) 236–237
Qingwei daofashuniu (Pivot of the Methods of the Way of Pure Tenuity) 252
Qingwei lingbao shenxiaoyugedaquan (Complete Collection of Precious Standards for Filling Offices of the Qingwei lingbao and Shenxiao Traditions) 256–257
,
262
,
266
Qingwei shenliebifa (Secret Methods of the Divine Fire of the Qingwei Heavens) 275
ritual dedicated to Deng tianjun (Celestial Lord Deng) 217
shi/fei (right or wrong) 47–49
shiyi yao (the eleven asterisms) 185
Shizong, emperor of the Ming: represented in a statue of Xiangyi dijun, 216–217
;
and the cult of Puhua tianzun 217
shou (to retain in visualization) 74
,
159
shou qi zhen (guarding the true and real in oneself) 86
shoujue (instructions for practices in the hand) 199–200
shouyin (mudras) 199
Shuinan tradition 259
shuo (to speak, to explain, theory) 47
Shuowenjiezi (Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters) 53
,
56
signs: Christian theory of, 143–144
;
of contradiction, 3
,
39
,
283n4
;
intransitive, 144–145
;
magical conception of, 109–110
;
paradoxical, 3
;
self-referential, 3
,
109
,
147
;
something that stands for something else 3
,
38
,
107
,
147
;
sincerity (cheng): emphasized in the Qingwei tradition, 250–252
;
mode of 253–254
singularity. see absolute, the
Sinology, 7–8
,
32
;
French 110–111
Snyder-Reinke, Jefrey 255
Socrates, 54
;
objective uncertainty, 45
,
76
;
Socratic secret 29
,
153
solitude: cultivating, 95
;
Rousseau 115–116
soothsaying 52
sothen (Old English to realize the truth) 52
souci-de-soi25–26
,
28
,
38
,
54
,
59
soul, the 75
spirit marriage 77
spirit mediums, 57
,
164
,
195
;
shentong268
spirit of the valley (Gushen) 181
Stoics 54
Stoneman, Richard 290n31
straw dogs 130
Strickmann, Michel 111
subject, the, 6
,
13
,
14
,
16
,
67
;
agency, 74
barred, 16
,
23
;
in contemporary European philosophy, 223
;
in Daoism, 13
,
165
;
elision of, 32
;
essentially subversive, 38
;
finite instance of truth, 9
;
formal theory of, 116
;
freedom, 16
,
37
;
identity, 119
,
198
local configuration of truth, 13
,
41
;
as one, 9
;
realization through transformation, 29
,
39
;
of the unconscious, 16
,
23–24
;
as violence 223
subjectivation, 27
,
67
;
Deleuze, Gilles, 28
;
Greece 28
subjectivity: and the Greeks, 25
,
27
;
production of, 25
;
as reality, 4
;
as truth, . 4
,
152Kierkegaard, Søren
subjunctive mode, the, 76
;
“as if” mode 76
substance (of liturgical symbols) 107
,
139
subtraction 119
Suqi (Nocturnal Invocation) 102
symbolic action: fulfillment of a wish, 149–150
;
of erings 141–143
symbols: Daoist theory of, 300–301n80
;
partaking in that to which they refer, 155
;
representing the unrepresentable, 143
;
Romantic theory of, . 145–146liturgical symbols
Taiji (Great Ultimate) 244
Taiping jing (Scripture of Great Peace) 92
,
97–99
,
159
Taishang laojun (Most High Lord Lao) 73
,
78
,
108
,
177
,
239
Taishang lingbao wufuxu (Sequence of the Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure of the Most High) 296n81
Taishang santianzhengfa jing (Scripture of the Correct Methods of the Three Heavens) 110–111
Taishang sanwuzhengyimengweilu (Registers of the Most High of the Three and the Five of the Authority of the Alliance of Orthodox Unity) 263–265
Taishang yujingyinshu (Hidden Book of the Supreme Jade Scripture) 104–105
Taishang zhengyifeishenyedizhangfa (Petitioning Method of the Most High and of Correct Unity for Flying in Spirit to Visit the Emperor), 150–152
,
154–157
,
158 fig. 6
Taizhenke (Codex for the Great True Beings) 239
talismans (fu): secret names of deities, 301n89
;
writing a talisman while contemplating and transforming into Puhua tianzun, . 217–218zhenwen