Benjamin Penny is Research Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. He is the editor of Religion and Biography in China and Tibet (also published by Routledge).

"This is a fine collection of essays ... that make an outstanding contribution to Daoist studies"--Chan Man Sing, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 9 No. 2, June 2007'This volume represents an important contribution to the field of Daoist studies. The editor successfully integrated the essays into an organic whole and produced a book of high academic standard that should be part of any library consulted by scholars and students of Daoism or Chinese religions in general.' - Volker Olles, Journal of Chinese Religions 2009

• 1. On Dreaming of Being Left-Handed: Liu Ts’un-yan and Daoist Studies 2. "Let Living and Dead Take Separate Paths": Bureaucratisation and Textualisation in Early Chinese Mortuary Ritual 3. Preliminary Considerations in the Search for a Daoist Dhammapada 4. The Visvantara-jataka in Buddhist and Daoist Translation 5. Visions of Evil: Demonology and Orthodoxy in Early Daoism 6. Between Karmic Retribution and Entwining Infusion: Is the Karma of the Parent Visited Upon the Child? 7. Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy 8.The Dynamic Design: Ritual and Contemplative Graphics in Daoist Scriptures 9. Was Celestial Master Zhang a Historical Figure?

Benjamin Penny is Research Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. He is the editor of Religion and Biography in China and Tibet (also published by Routledge).

"This is a fine collection of essays ... that make an outstanding contribution to Daoist studies"--Chan Man Sing, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 9 No. 2, June 2007'This volume represents an important contribution to the field of Daoist studies. The editor successfully integrated the essays into an organic whole and produced a book of high academic standard that should be part of any library consulted by scholars and students of Daoism or Chinese religions in general.' - Volker Olles, Journal of Chinese Religions 2009

• 1. On Dreaming of Being Left-Handed: Liu Ts’un-yan and Daoist Studies 2. "Let Living and Dead Take Separate Paths": Bureaucratisation and Textualisation in Early Chinese Mortuary Ritual 3. Preliminary Considerations in the Search for a Daoist Dhammapada 4. The Visvantara-jataka in Buddhist and Daoist Translation 5. Visions of Evil: Demonology and Orthodoxy in Early Daoism 6. Between Karmic Retribution and Entwining Infusion: Is the Karma of the Parent Visited Upon the Child? 7. Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy 8.The Dynamic Design: Ritual and Contemplative Graphics in Daoist Scriptures 9. Was Celestial Master Zhang a Historical Figure?

Benjamin Penny is Research Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. He is the editor of Religion and Biography in China and Tibet (also published by Routledge).

"This is a fine collection of essays ... that make an outstanding contribution to Daoist studies"--Chan Man Sing, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 9 No. 2, June 2007'This volume represents an important contribution to the field of Daoist studies. The editor successfully integrated the essays into an organic whole and produced a book of high academic standard that should be part of any library consulted by scholars and students of Daoism or Chinese religions in general.' - Volker Olles, Journal of Chinese Religions 2009

• 1. On Dreaming of Being Left-Handed: Liu Ts’un-yan and Daoist Studies 2. "Let Living and Dead Take Separate Paths": Bureaucratisation and Textualisation in Early Chinese Mortuary Ritual 3. Preliminary Considerations in the Search for a Daoist Dhammapada 4. The Visvantara-jataka in Buddhist and Daoist Translation 5. Visions of Evil: Demonology and Orthodoxy in Early Daoism 6. Between Karmic Retribution and Entwining Infusion: Is the Karma of the Parent Visited Upon the Child? 7. Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy 8.The Dynamic Design: Ritual and Contemplative Graphics in Daoist Scriptures 9. Was Celestial Master Zhang a Historical Figure?