Criminalized Abnormality, Moral Etiology, and Redemptive Suffering in the Secondary Strata of the Taiping jing

Grégoire Espesset (1)

1 UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

This study of Chinese beliefs regarding life after death, Taoist bureaucratic views of the unseen world, and the relationship between the religious and medical spheres, as seen in chapters 110-112 and 114 of the "Great Peace Scripture" (Taiping jing), suggests that these parts of the text form a consistent piece, which seems reminiscent of some of the features of the earliest Taoist communities towards the end of the Later Han dynasty (A.D. 25-220).

Mots clés: Chine; Taoïsme; médecine; morale; cosmologie

Mots clés: China; Taoism; religion; medicine; morals; cosmology

Domaines: Histoire

Grégoire Espesset. Criminalized Abnormality, Moral Etiology, and Redemptive Suffering in the Secondary Strata of the Taiping jing. Asia Major, 2002, 15 (2), pp.1-50. ⟨halshs-00669076⟩