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Reading the ‘Inner Biography of the Perfected Person of Purple Solarity’: Religion and Society in an Early Daoist Hagiography WINNER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY'S PROFESSOR MARY BOYCE AWARD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2008

JULIUS N. TSAI
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One of the first copies of The Legends of the Saints had a reception I was far from expecting. The friend who had received the complimentary copy informed me that he would put the book in his library, but that he would never read it. “What do you expect?” he said, “I love the legends of the saints, and I do not want anything to spoil my pleasure in them”.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 193 - 220
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