Taishan’s tradition: The quantification and prioritization of moral wrongs in a contemporary Daoist religion

摘要

At Dongyue Miao ~ , the Daoist "Temple of the Eastern Peak" in Beijing,rnone finds a series of seventy-six compartments containing fife-sizernplaster figures, each one molded and painted with great detail and arrangedrnto form an ambulatory around the central courtyard of the miao ~ (temple).rnTogether these seventy-six rooms represent a comprehensive view of thernbureaucratic departments in the moral kingdom of the Daoist god Taishanrnd_l. z In the Daoist tradition we describe in this paper, Taishan is under-