Events
03
Sep
2020
Sima Chengzhen 司馬承禎 and his Daoist sacred geography in the Tang dynasty
ANU China Seminar Series
In the late 720s and early 730s, the Tang emperor Xuanzong玄宗 (r.712-756) ordered the establishment of shrines on the Five Sacred Mountains for the Perfected Lord 五嶽真君祠. This was an immediate response to a memorial on mountain deities, which the Daoist priest Sima Chengzhen 司馬承禎 (647-735) had submitted in 725.
24
Sep
2020
The Cultural World of the Bannerman
Seminar
“The Eight Banners take qishe 騎射 (horse riding and archery) as their root.
