Chinese

Chinese Buddhist and popular devotion, salvationist scripture, body-cultivation writing, and source-facing translations in the Good Works Library.

Folders

  • Buddhist and Popular Devotion — Chinese Buddhist narrative, devotional, ritual, and popular-performance texts, including the precious-scroll tradition. (1)
  • Folklore — Chinese folklore studies and collections preserved with compiler, colonial, source-community, and illustration boundaries made explicit. (3)
  • Martial Arts and Body Cultivation — Chinese classics of strategy, martial practice, and the cultivated body. (17)
  • Religious History — Historical studies of Chinese religious history, ritual, institutions, and traditions, read alongside Chinese sources and living communities. (2)
  • Salvationist and Sectarian Traditions — Luodao scriptures and related Salvationist or sectarian Chinese religious texts. (2)

Pages

  • Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Chinese shelf.
  • Introduction to Chinese Religion — A source-rich introduction to Chinese religion as a grammar of relation: ancestors, Heaven, state rite, gods, ghosts, the Three Teachings, popular practice, redemptive societies, body cultivation, and the present Good Works Chinese shelf.
  • Reader's Guide to Chinese — A source-specific guide to the Chinese shelf through precious-scroll performance, Guanyin devotion, Luodao scripture, historical folklore, religious classification, and Yiquan body practice.