The Seba library treats Ordination in 8 passages, across 3 authors (including Kerényi, Karl, Kohn, Livia, Dvornik, Francis).
He is a 'herald appointed to Hades,' and this is on the strength of his ordination… a formal preparation and appointment. This 'making ready' is in Greek linguistic use an ordination, even if it be so only in a figurative sense.
Keréni argues that Hermes's installation as psychopomp constitutes a genuine ordination — a completed preparatory rite that confers his liminal office between the living and the dead.
, Hermes Guide of Souls, 1944thesis
Charles Benn has recently examined the series of rituals in 711 that resulted in the ordination of two Tang dynasty princesses… Their brother, Tang Xuanzong, was also ordained, by the famous Daoist priest Sima Chengzhen.
Kohn documents the historically and ritually elaborate ordination of Tang imperial family members as Daoist priestesses and priests, demonstrating ordination's function as a vehicle of sacred legitimation at the highest social levels.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000thesis
investiture and lists all of the scriptures, registers, tallies, covenants, and the like that were transmitted to ordinands… For revisionist views on the dating and character of the scriptures transmitted at Daoist ordinations, see Kobayashi 1990.
Kohn surveys the textual and material apparatus transmitted during Daoist ordinations, situating the rite within a complex economy of sacred knowledge and institutional legitimacy.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
in ordination system, 312, 321-24; in Six Dynasties, 143-44; in Song ritual, 418, 423, 424… ordination of, 299, 328; patriarchs of, 341-42.
Kohn maps the Shangqing school's integral place within the broader Daoist ordination system, tracing its position across successive historical periods.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
he had refrained from sending the pallium to Bulgaria and holding ordinations there, just to demonstrate to the legates his readiness to come to an agreement on that very issue.
Dvornik reveals how Photius strategically withheld ordinations in Bulgaria as a diplomatic concession, exposing ordination's function as a political instrument in ecclesiastical negotiation.
, The Photian Schism: History and Legend, 1948supporting
in 1394, he set the minimal age of ordination at 14. Moreover, no soldiers or artisans…
Kohn documents the Ming state's regulatory control over Daoist ordination through age restrictions and occupational exclusions, illustrating how ordination became an object of imperial governance.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
in ritual, 311, 313, 316, 327, 457, 659, 667, 672, 673; in Shangqing, 200, 202, 220; in Tang, 373; in Tianshi, 265, 269-70; making of, 498, 501, 533-35
This index entry places talisman transmission within a ritual matrix that overlaps significantly with ordination procedures in multiple Daoist lineages.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000aside
women reached their most prominent position in the religion. This was actively supported by Emperor Xuanzong… there were 1,687 Daoist temples in the eighth century, 1,137 for men and 550 for women.
Kohn contextualises women's ordination within Tang Daoism, noting imperial patronage and the statistical scope of female religious institutions as background to the ordination of specific princesses.
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