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Tao 道 and Fa 法 in the Taoist Cult of Marīci 摩利支天大聖 and a Coastal Cult in Present-Day Northern Taiwan. Basic Aspects of the Study of Taoist Religion and Folk Religion
Seiten 459 - 478
DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.171.2.0459
The divinity Marīci 摩利支天大聖 was a T'ang-import that came to China with Tantric
Buddhism. Marīci turned Taoist and became a Thunder divinity known as Mother of
the Dipper 斗姆. The presentation illustrates and scrutinizes the development
under the perspective of
latter term meaning ritual and exorcist methods 道教法術 in religious Taoism. The
article compares the findings again referring to
cult in Northern Taiwan that is realized in a Yin-miao 陰廟, which means a cult
beyond the limits of officially recognized religion.
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