Grégoire Espesset

Dados Biográficos

ID712062
NOMEGrégoire Espesset
PRENOMESGrégoire
SOBRENOMEEspesset
ASSINATURAESPESSET G
AFILIAÇÕESCentre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2004
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ÍNDICE H0

  • Date, Authorship, and Literary Structure of the Great Peace Scripture Digest

    Grégoire EspessetARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021Referências: 2

    The text opening the "Great Peace Part" ("Taiping bu" 太平部) in the Ming Taoist Canon, the Great Peace Scripture Digest (Taiping jing chao 太平經鈔), is widely confused with the famous Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing 太平經), which follows it in the Canon. The first full analysis and reassessment of the Great Peace Scripture Digest, this paper reviews the textual morphology of its ancient and modern editions, discusses current hypotheses concerning it…

  • Portents in Early Imperial China

    Grégoire EspessetARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Still neglected by modern research, the “Weft” (or “Apocrypha”) contain a wealth of unexploited data relevant to Chinese history in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Sometimes ascribed to Confucius, these texts, whose Chinese name ( wei 緯) denotes the crosswise threads of woven fabric, have long been perceived as arcane supplements to the “Classics,” called jing 經, the lengthwise threads. Repeatedly prohibited and destroyed, they survive …

  • The Invention of Buddho-Taoism

    Grégoire EspessetARTICLEAsiatische Studien – Études…2017

    “Buddho-Taoism” is a neologism that appeared in Western academic writings during the late nineteen-forties, was put to various uses without ever being consensually defined, enjoyed a brief vogue around the turn of the twenty-first century, and began to fall from grace in recent years. Not only did this neologism implicitly create new epistemic repertoires derived from the names of two presumably known religions. Increasingly loaded with a heterog…

  • A case study on the evolution of Chinese religious symbols from talismanic paraphernalia to Taoist liturgy

    Open AccessGrégoire EspessetARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2015Referências: 14

    The mid-fifteenth-century Taoist Canon (Zhengtong daozang正統道藏) contains five specimens of a religious artefact called "Great Peace Symbol" ("Taiping fu" 太平符), dispersed between five texts spanning about a millennium. The introduction to this paper discusses the meaning of the Chinese wordfu符 and its most widely used English rendition, "talisman". The article briefly presents the source of each specimen, attempts a deconstruction of its morphology…

  • Epiphanies of Sovereignty and the Rite of Jade Disc Immersion in Weft Narratives

    Open AccessGrégoire EspessetARTICLEEarly China2014

    This article deals with facets of the political ideology of late pre-imperial and early imperial China as documented by remnants of a dozen texts belonging to an under-explored genre known in English as weft ( wei 緯) writings or the “Confucian Apocrypha.” Its focus is on the transcendence of hierarchy and sovereignty, the transfer of dynastic legitimacy, and the pragmatic vehicle of “tangible” revelation. After a terminological introduction, the …

  • Local Resistance in Early Medieval Chinese Historiography and the Problem of Religious Overinterpretation

    Open AccessGrégoire EspessetARTICLEThe Medieval History Journal2014Referências: 7

    The official corpus of Chinese historiography contains a wealth of valuable information on what may be termed local resistance to the centralised empire in early medieval China (third to sixth century). Sinologists specialised in the study of Chinese religions commonly reconstruct the religious history of the era by interpreting some of these data. In the process, however, methodological mistakes often occur, such as disregard for the primary pur…

  • Le corpus des citations du Livre de la Grande paix (Taiping jing) du ve au xve siècle

    Open AccessGrégoire EspessetARTICLEAnnuaire - Ecole pratique des…2011

    Le second volet du diptyque consacré au Livre de la Grande paix a porté sur le corpus des citations du texte dans un large éventail de sources chinoises recouvrant un millénaire, depuis le ve siècle – siècle pénultième du haut Moyen Âge chinois – jusqu’à la fixation de l’édition canonique du texte, au xve siècle, durant l’ère Zhengtong (1436-1449) de la dynastie Ming (1368-1644). Ce corpus n’a jamais fait l’objet d’une publication particulière ni…

  • Le Livre de la Grande paix et son corpus

    Open AccessGrégoire EspessetARTICLEAnnuaire - Ecole pratique des…2010

    Le programme de cette première année du diptyque consacré au Taiping jing (Livre de la Grande paix) a consisté en une relecture critique et chronologique du corpus des sources primaires abordant l’histoire du texte. Une attention particulière a été portée au rapport diachronique entre la date (si elle est donnée) du fait relaté et celle (parfois problématique) de la source de la relation, d’une part, et d’autre part sur le rapport diachronique en…

  • Les Directives secrètes du Saint Seigneur du Livre de la Grande paix et la préservation de l'unité

    Grégoire EspessetARTICLET oung Pao2009

    International audience

  • À vau-l'eau, à rebours ou l'ambivalence de la logiques triadique dans l'idéologie du Taipingjing

    Grégoire EspessetARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie2004

    The affection of the Chinese for numerical categories has now become a cliché but the study of Chinese thought has mostly focused on binary (the Yin and Yang) and quinary (the Five agents) systems, while the notion of Trinity is generally considered to characterize the Western world. By way of contrast, the content of the Taiping jing, a source which reflects ideas deeply rooted in the worldview of Han times despite its problematic textual histor…