The Seba library treats Mount Tai in 6 passages, across 1 author (including Kohn, Livia).
the great annual jiao offering celebrated by Daoists in Beijing's Tianqi miao … in honor of Dongyue dadi … the god of Mount Tai … drew massive crowds.
This passage establishes Mount Tai's central cultic function as the seat of Dongyue dadi, whose annual festival at the Tianqi miao attracted mass popular participation including healing rites, demonstrating the mountain's integration of state Daoism and popular religion.
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a brilliant painting of Bixia yuanjun, the goddess of the Morning Clouds and daughter of the Lord of Mount Tai, the eastern sacred peak.
This passage situates Mount Tai within Ming court religious art and imperial Daoist patronage, specifically through its daughter-deity Bixia yuanjun, linking the mountain to both cosmological hierarchy and dynastic ritual.
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Chavannes, Edouard. 1910. Le Tai Shan. Essai de monographie d'un culte chinois. Paris: Annales du Musee Guimet 21.
The bibliography's explicit citation of Chavannes's monograph confirms Mount Tai's foundational status as an object of Western sinological scholarship and establishes the mountain as a privileged site of Chinese cultic study within the Daoist scholarly tradition.
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Taishan fujun, 692
The index entry for Taishan fujun (Lord of Mount Tai) locates this deity within the Daoist sacred geography chapter, confirming the mountain's administrative and cosmological governance role as indexed across the Handbook.
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Shandong, and immortals, 111, 387, 392; and Quanzhen, 568, 570; and ritual, 693; art in, 712-13
The index cross-reference to Shandong — the province containing Mount Tai — indicates the mountain's broader regional significance for Daoist immortality traditions, Quanzhen lineages, and ritual art without directly naming it.
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Mt. Kunlun … This mountain … in the far west of China is the equivalent of an axis mundi … 'the root and the hub of heaven and earth, the handle of ten thousand measures'
By detailing the cosmological typology of sacred mountains anchored by Kunlun as axis mundi, this passage provides the classificatory framework within which Mount Tai's own status as eastern sacred peak and regional cosmological anchor is implicitly understood.
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