Mark Meulenbeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Meulenbeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Meulenbeld |
| SIGNATURE | MEULENBELD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Peach Blossom Spring’s Long History as a Sacred Site in Northern Hunan
Though long seen uniquely from the perspective of the Chinese literary canon, Tao Qian’s 陶潛 (365?–427) famous “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring” (“Taohuayuan ji” 桃花源記) may find an even more fruitful disciplinary home in religious studies. The story refers itself to a grotto at Wuling 武陵 (present-day northern Hunan province), a site that has been associated with Daoist transcendents ( shenxian 神仙) at least since the middle of the sixth century. …
Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China, written by Andrew Schonebaum
Vernacular "Fiction" and Celestial Script: A Daoist Manual for the Use of Water Margin
This article maps out a sphere of ritual practice that recognizably serves as a framework for the famous Ming dynasty (1368-1644) vernacular narrative Water Margin (水滸傳 Shuihu zhuan). By establishing a set of primary referents that are ritual in nature, I question the habit of applying the modern category of "literary fiction" in a universalizing, secular way, marginalizing or metaphorizing Daoist elements. I argue that literary analysis can only…
The Dark Emperor’s law: A Daoist temple and its codification of rituals in Hunan
This article investigates different types of rituals that constitute the Daoist repertoire of Yangyuan Village in Hunan (PRC). I first show that the ‘indigenous’ Meishan rituals represent an older – possibly non–Han – stratum of the Yangyuan repertoire. Revolving around mountains, grottoes and other landmarks of the local sacred geography, it nonetheless bears the traces of inter-regional exchange between Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian – an exchange …
Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins, written by Meir Shahar
Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Guanyin's Reformulation within Chinese Religion
The Chinese goddess known as Guanyin may commonly be referred to with the Buddhist epithet of “bodhisattva,” yet her many hagiographies contain only the most stereotypical references to anything that could be defined unambiguously as “Buddhist.” Instead, the narrative of Guanyin that gains greatest popularity between the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries is one that describes the bodhisattva's last incarnation, as the unmarried Princess Mi…
Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Guanyin's Reformulation within Chinese Religion
The Chinese goddess known as Guanyin may commonly be referred to with the Buddhist epithet of “bodhisattva,” yet her many hagiographies contain only the most stereotypical references to anything that could be defined unambiguously as “Buddhist.” Instead, the narrative of Guanyin that gains greatest popularity between the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries is one that describes the bodhisattva's last incarnation, as the unmarried Princess Mi…
Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Guanyin's Reformulation within Chinese Religion
The Chinese goddess known as Guanyin may commonly be referred to with the Buddhist epithet of “bodhisattva,” yet her many hagiographies contain only the most stereotypical references to anything that could be defined unambiguously as “Buddhist.” Instead, the narrative of Guanyin that gains greatest popularity between the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries is one that describes the bodhisattva's last incarnation, as the unmarried Princess Mi…
Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins, written by Meir Shahar
The Dark Emperor’s law: A Daoist temple and its codification of rituals in Hunan
This article investigates different types of rituals that constitute the Daoist repertoire of Yangyuan Village in Hunan (PRC). I first show that the ‘indigenous’ Meishan rituals represent an older – possibly non–Han – stratum of the Yangyuan repertoire. Revolving around mountains, grottoes and other landmarks of the local sacred geography, it nonetheless bears the traces of inter-regional exchange between Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian – an exchange …
Vernacular "Fiction" and Celestial Script: A Daoist Manual for the Use of Water Margin
This article maps out a sphere of ritual practice that recognizably serves as a framework for the famous Ming dynasty (1368-1644) vernacular narrative Water Margin (水滸傳 Shuihu zhuan). By establishing a set of primary referents that are ritual in nature, I question the habit of applying the modern category of "literary fiction" in a universalizing, secular way, marginalizing or metaphorizing Daoist elements. I argue that literary analysis can only…
Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China, written by Andrew Schonebaum
The Peach Blossom Spring’s Long History as a Sacred Site in Northern Hunan
Though long seen uniquely from the perspective of the Chinese literary canon, Tao Qian’s 陶潛 (365?–427) famous “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring” (“Taohuayuan ji” 桃花源記) may find an even more fruitful disciplinary home in religious studies. The story refers itself to a grotto at Wuling 武陵 (present-day northern Hunan province), a site that has been associated with Daoist transcendents ( shenxian 神仙) at least since the middle of the sixth century. …
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