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Here is the first booklength study of the life and works of Wu Yun, one of the most remarkable figures of eighth-century Daoism. Blending literary criticism with religious and cultural history, this book assesses the importance of Wu Yun the Daoist priest, the poet, the anti-Bud…
Meyer (Leiden U.) examines the life and works of Wu Yun (d. 778), a scholarly hermit who was later ordained as a Daoist priest and appointed Hanlin Academician in Attendance, and so was a privileged witness to Xuanzong's Daoist experiment. After Xuanzong's downfall, she recounts…