Stele Inscriptions of Taoist Temples 宫观碑志

Compiler unknown.

Compiled around the Yuan Dynasty, one volume, included in the Biographical Category of the Dongshen Section of the Daozang. This book collects nine inscriptions on Taoist temples and abbeys. The first piece, Record of the Reconstruction of Queen Mother's Palace on Huishan Mountain in Jingzhou, was written by Tao Gu, a Academician of the Hanlin Academy in the early Song Dynasty, while the authors of the remaining works were all scholars from the Jin and Yuan dynasties. The collection includes Stele of the Reconstruction of the Ten-Direction Grand Tianchang Guan in the Central Capital by Zheng Zinan, Epigraph on the Xuan Du Treasure Collection at the Ten-Direction Grand Tianchang Guan by Wei Tuanxiao, Stele of the Miraculous Responses to the Universal Great Taoist Ritual at the Ten-Direction Grand Tianchang Guan in the Central Capital by Dang Huaiying, Record of the Auspicious Omens of the Universal Great Taoist Ritual at the Ten-Direction Grand Tianchang Guan by Zhu Lan, Stele of the Imperial Commissioned Universal Yellow Register Great Taoist Ritual by Feng Zhiheng, Stele of the Reconstruction of the Taiji Hall at the Grand Qing Guan in Bozhou by Wang Ya, as well as Record of the Chongyang Dao-Attainment Guan by an anonymous author.

Stele Inscriptions of Taoist Temples

The compiler of this book was presumably a Taoist Priest of the Quanzhen school in the Yuan Dynasty. The inscriptions collected herein hold significant value for the study of the history of Taoism in the Jin and Yuan dynasties.