1st Edition
The Peking Temple of the Eastern Peak The Tung-yüeh Miao of Peking and Its Lore with 20 Plates
By Anne Swann Goodrich
Copyright 1964
364 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Tung-yUeh Miao in Peking is a veritable pantheon housing hundreds of deities with scores of attendants, presided over by the Great God of the Eastern Peak. Mrs. Goodrich, in her delightful narrative, relates the stories of these deities: how they came to be deified, how they secured the faith and trust of thousands of devotees, and how they managed to accomodate themselves to each other... Read more
Preface, 1. Description of the Tung-yiieh Miao, 2. The Building of the Tung-yiieh Miao, 3. Organizations connected with the Temple, 4. Tung-yiieh Ta-it, 5. Guardians of the Temple, 6. Gods of Wealth, 7. Deities of Birth and of Children, 8. Gods of Medicine, 9. Gods of Contagious Diseases and Gods of Prevention. . . , 10. Gods of Officialdom, 11. Patron Deities, 12. Protection from Evil Spirits, 13. Gods of Virtue, 14. Animal Gods, 15. Gods of City, Locality and Home, 16. Gods of Death and Underworld, 17. Miscellaneous Gods, Guide to the Ground Plan, Illustrations, Plates
Biography
Anne Swann Goodrich
