File:Chart of True Form of the Topography of the Most High Man-Bird Mountain, diagram B - Picture of the Primordial View 元覽圖 - Primordial View of the Mountain Form of the Man‑Bird Mountain 元覽人鳥山形圖 (1445).png
DescriptionChart of True Form of the Topography of the Most High Man-Bird Mountain, diagram B - Picture of the Primordial View 元覽圖 - Primordial View of the Mountain Form of the Man‑Bird Mountain 元覽人鳥山形圖 (1445).png
English: A 1445 Daoist "true form chart", a type of esoteric diagram combining image and text in an aniconic way and considered the highest scriptures, reflecting the "true form", approximate to the formless Dao itself. Called "Picture of the Primordial View". According to Shih Chan Susan Huang (2012), p. 136 [1], it is part of a group of medieval true form charts called "True Form Charts of the Man-Bird Mountain".
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Originally as found in the 1445 book "Primordial View of the Mountain Form of the Man-Bird Mountain" 元覽人鳥山形圖. Photo reprinted from Zhengtongdaozang 正統道藏, Official Publication of the Ming Dynasty, 10th year of the Zhengtong era, found at Cai, Linbo (2022). The Sacred Writing of Knowledge: Interpreting the True Form Charts of the Man-Bird Mountain in Taoism. Religions 13 (11) [2]
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