EALC 001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Zhang Daoling, Northern Wei, Sichuan
16 Jan 2019
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Intellectual and religious movements in early medieval china. Description/definition :established a celestial bureaucracy between heaven, earth and water. healing, repentance of sins, and enactment of contracts between deities and humans. religious daoism. emphasized. Similar beliefs to yellow turbans, but did not rebel like the yellow turbans. Allowed to continue, had state sponsorship in the northern wei (while carving. Not the beliefs or practices that determine whether religion is tolerated, but would they overtly proclaim their fiety to the government. Claimed a parallel celestial bureaucracy, but they would say that these celestial masters would be the only way to contact them. Appealed originally to lowest levels of society, impressed by an all you can eat communal mess hall because they barely even had food in their own home town, desperate individuals. Different classes of people -> different strands of daoism that appealed to different classes. Harnessed popular yearnings for new/ better age into major religious movements.
