The Seba library treats Three Caverns in 6 passages, across 1 author (including Kohn, Livia).
the revelations of the teaching as they took place through the various kalpas, and in Laozi’s transmission of the Daode jing to Yin Xi, and as manifested in the Three Caverns and their various subdivisions.
This passage identifies the Three Caverns as the culminating organizational expression of Daoist revelation history, placing them within a cosmological-temporal framework of kalpic transmission.
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When Lu Xiujing catalogued Daoist scriptures in the fifth century, he applied the label ‘Cavern’ to the t
This passage marks the historical origin of the Three Caverns classification in Lu Xiujing’s fifth-century scriptural catalogue, establishing the term’s canonical genealogy.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000thesis
This compendium contains four of the oldest liturgies for the investitures of Daoist orders—Taixuan, Dongshen, Dongxuan, and Dongzhen
This passage demonstrates that the Three Caverns framework directly structured ordination liturgies, linking the bibliographic taxonomy to institutional initiation practice.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000thesis
in Three Caverns, 231, 444
The index entry confirms the Shangqing school’s integral positioning within the Three Caverns system, cross-referencing page treatments of its canonical status therein.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
draws mainly upon the corpus of Shangqing Daoism while also providing a framework for understanding the holistic dimensions of religious practice
This passage describes a Tang encyclopedic text that operationalizes the Shangqing strand of the Three Caverns as a comprehensive framework for Daoist practice.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
The Shangqing movement greatly expanded the store of meditations and individual visualizations of the Daoist adept, drawing upon the southern occult traditions
This passage contextualizes Shangqing’s role in expanding the ritual and visionary repertoire that would be codified under the Three Caverns rubric.
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