Stephen Jones, In Search of the Folk Daoists of North China. 华北民间道士与法事

Dans cet ouvrage, Stephen Jones s'intéresse aux spécialistes rituels de la Chine du Nord, plus précisément dans trois régions : (1) au centre et au nord du Shanxi, (2) au sud du Shanxi, sud du Hebei, Shaanxi et Gansu et (3) dans la plaine centrale du Hebei. Et c'est ce découpage régional qui guidera l'organisation de l'ouvrage en trois parties, précédées d'un long chapitre introductif et suivi d'un plus court chapitre de conclusion, d'importantes annexes et d'un index conséquent et très préci..

Stephen Jones, In Search of the Folk Daoists of North China. 华北民间道士与法事

Dans cet ouvrage, Stephen Jones s'intéresse aux spécialistes rituels de la Chine du Nord, plus précisément dans trois régions : (1) au centre et au nord du Shanxi, (2) au sud du Shanxi, sud du Hebei, Shaanxi et Gansu et (3) dans la plaine centrale du Hebei. Et c'est ce découpage régional qui guidera l'organisation de l'ouvrage en trois parties, précédées d'un long chapitre introductif et suivi d'un plus court chapitre de conclusion, d'importantes annexes et d'un index conséquent et très préci..

"La sagesse chinoise dans le développement urbain". Le temple tao\"ıste des Nuages blancs de Shanghai et l'Exposition universelle 2010

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A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China

International audienceFollowing the fate of a small Daoist community temple, the Wengongci in the town of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, the author examines the structure of the temple, the monastics living in it, its surrounding lay community, and the gods worshiped in its confines. In a second part, she outlines the individual's path as a Daoist monastic today, from the choice of the religious life through the various forms of training to advanced ordinations and activities in the society. Finally, she discusses the greater community of the Dao in terms of pseudo-kinship structures and gender issues

A Day in the Life of a Daoist Monk

International audienceThis article seeks to give an ethnographical description of the everyday life of an ordinary Daoist monk in China today. As it follows Yang Zhixiang from early morning until night, it deals with his current main occupations—in this case, work on the glyphomancical dissection of the Dao 道 character, fate calculation for young fiancés, preparation for a healing ritual, the ascetic practice of self­ perfecting through refinement, etc. — as well as more basic scenes such as meals, gestures and postures, various domestic tasks, and the reconstruction of the temple. It also relates fragments of his own past life and implicitly outlines the path that led him to the monastery and the vocation that made him become a monk. Finally, it aims to convey the diversity of the monks' activities and then, by considering them serially as a whole, to arrive at an understanding of the spe­ cific texture of Daoist monastic life and its reason for being. The scene is in Hanzhong, a small provincial town in central China (Shaanxi). It is the hour of the hare (maoshi 卯时), between five and seven in the morning. A relatively old monk of about sixty years comes out of his cell, stops in the courtyard and takes a deep breath. He finishes but‑ toning the cloth straps on his blue cotton vest, which he is wearing with black trousers. It is an ordinary day, and for the sake of convenience, he has not put on his long robe, or even his boots and white gaiters; he wears khaki tennis shoes instead. He goes back into his room and re‑ emerges carrying a basin, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a towel, and a var‑ nished metal cup visibly chipped around the rim

La part essentielle de l’être n’est ‘ni dans le corps, ni hors du corps’. Portrait d’un maître taoïste médecin et ascète

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Networks and the `Cloudlike Wandering' of Daoist Monks in China Today

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La part essentielle de l’être n’est ‘ni dans le corps, ni hors du corps’. Portrait d’un maître taoïste médecin et ascète

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Daoist Monasticism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. An Ethnography of a Quanzhen Community in Shaanxi Province

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Vincent Goossaert, The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949. A Social History of Urban Clerics, 2007

Herrou Adeline. Vincent Goossaert, The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949. A Social History of Urban Clerics, 2007. In: Études chinoises, n°27, 2008. pp. 366-372