- List of and Illustrations and Table*
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- I. A Remedy to Save Mankind: Petitioning Heaven
- 1. Ritual Premises
- 2. Fateful Liabilities
- 3. The Protagonists and the Ransom
- 4. A Redemptive Program
- II. The Interior Journey: Lu Xiujing’s Reformation
- 5. Disciple of the Three Caverns
- 6. The Sacred Jewel Retreat
- 7. Set Right Your Heart, Set Right Your Conduct!
- 8. The Dharma-bridge of Requital
- III. All under Heaven: The Tang Synthesis
- 9. Paths to Initiation
- 10. Sacraments of Lay Religion
- 11. Instruments of Deliverance
- 12. Prayers for a New Elite
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Index
- * Table and Illustrations
- Table
- Redeeming destiny: Schematic sequence and glossary
- Plates
- 1. Pine effigy
- 2. Tomb guardian
- 3. The Lotus Society, after Li Gonglin
- 4. Liu Song celadon lamp
- 5. Bodhisattvas lighting lamps
- 6. Collected Prayer Texts (P. 3562v)
- 7. Palace of Purple Tenuity stars (DB076)
- 8. The Pole-Star and the Planet Ketu (Stein painting 170)
- Figures
- 1. “True Landscape of Mount Fengdu”
- 2. Salt production in Han Sichuan
- 3. Ritual area plan
- 4. Messengers with escorts conveying petitions to Heaven
- 5. “Talismans for the Benefit of Silkworms”
- 6. Taming the horse of the mind
- 7. Heavenly Master exorcist
- 8. Talisman “Dispelling Melancholic Thoughts”
- 9. “Spirit Seal of the Monarch of Heaven”
- Table
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