Newly Discovered Scriptures in the 1475 Forbidden Book List and Their Connection with the White Lotus Movement

CAO Xinyu

Studies in Qing History ›› 2015, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (1) : 118-125.

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Newly Discovered Scriptures in the 1475 Forbidden Book List and Their Connection with the White Lotus Movement

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In 2013 I published a collection of folk religious texts including 4 scriptures in the notorious 1475 forbidden book list issued by the Ming court. This list has been long considered important to reconstruct the early folk religious movement,or popular sects collectively known as White Lotus movement. Because of the scarcity of folk religious texts,especially for those seditious books before 1500,Prof.Wang Chienchuan points out,by using another example of two versions the extantSansha Jiegui Sutrawhose name was also found in the 1475 list,that changes in the folk texts are commonplace and indentifying and dating these texts were necessary before using them as historical sources.But this paper argues that the Sansha Jiegui Sutra could be actually better understood in the context of the 1475 forbidden books.The earlier version of Sansha Jiegui Sutra conforms very well with other recently published texts.

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CAO Xinyu. Newly Discovered Scriptures in the 1475 Forbidden Book List and Their Connection with the White Lotus Movement[J]. Studies in Qing History. 2015, 0(1): 118-125
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