The Chinese “Corpse-Returning” Soul Journeys of the Zhen’gao
- Date of account
- 364–370 CE; texts transmitted and edited later
- Location
- Jiangnan, especially Maoshan religious networks
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Zhen’gao preserves Shangqing Daoist revelations associated with Yang Xi, who reportedly received communications from perfected beings during visionary encounters and nocturnal spiritual travel. Its materials include accounts of celestial journeys, meetings with deities and techniques for cultivating the spirit. The corpus matters for comparing mediumship, dream revelation, visionary geography and textual authority. It is a religious archive compiled through layered transmission, and the historical status of Yang Xi’s experiences cannot be separated from scribal, institutional and ritual contexts.
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