St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie Publ., 2011, 656 p. (in Russian) "Oh, how hidden is the Nameless! But the Tao is the Path of the Nameless One near us! Keep the unity and use it to recreate the Only Three. And you will see them! If you can see the Only Ones, then you can ask for these books. But these books should only be passed on in secret. The method of "keeping the Only Three" is the first chapter from the books of the Lord-lord of the Golden Gate (Jin que di-jun) from the heavenly palace of the Highest purity, where Perfect people live. These are the hidden instructions of the Perfect Ones... "(p. 7). With these words, the reader begins his journey to the wonderful world of Taoism and the book collection of one of the early Taoist schools - Shangqing Pai, or the Highest Purity, in which he sets off from the first pages of the book by the Russian researcher of Taoism S. V. Filonov. This is the first monograph in our country devoted to the Shangqing Taoist school and its representative written monuments, reflecting the formation and change of ideas, practical methods and ideas of this Taoist teaching in historical retrospect. The monograph continues the work of a galaxy of Taoists of the last century: M. Strickman, J. Lagerway, M. Kaltenmark, I. Robinet, S. Bockenkamp, P. Andersen and others, and also significantly complements and corrects the ideas of Russian Taoism about the origin of the Shangqing book collection, the conceptual content of its sources and the main lines of development of the Taoist movement as a whole during the period of the Great Taoist Revolution. the early Middle Ages. "The history of Shangqing's teaching is the history of his books... "(p. 114), and it begins not on earth, but in heaven. According to Taoist cosmology, Shangqing is the name of a palace in one of the highest heavens of the universe, where the Perfect Ones (zhen ren) live and, according to Taoist ideas, wonderful books are kept. They are wonderful because they ha ... Read more