Sages, smokers, sojourners : the religion of the void in China and Southeast Asia

• Main Author: Soh, Esmond Chuah Meng
• Other Authors: Koh Keng We
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Humanities::Religions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Zhenkongjiao 真空教, alias the Great Way Within Emptiness 空中大道, refers to a Chinese religious movement whose emergence in twentieth-century southeast China and Southeast Asia was characterized by its rehabilitation of opium-addicts with meditation regimes and tea-drinking rituals. This thesis discu...