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Quanzhen Political Proscription

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 15_DAOIST_PRECEPTS_ISE_BOUNDARIES_v2_3.md.

Source file: 15_DAOIST_PRECEPTS_ISE_BOUNDARIES_v2_3.md

Class: POLITICAL-PROSCRIPTION / INTERRELIGIOUS CONFLICT

Quanzhen experienced state-backed proscriptions during controversies with Buddhism in the later thirteenth century. These included the burning of a recently compiled Daoist Canon.

“Forbidden Daoism” can mean the state suppressing a Daoist institution, not Daoism internally prohibiting a practice.

  • suppressing authority;
  • political/religious controversy;
  • texts destroyed;
  • institutional consequences;
  • later restoration of court favor.