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太上感應篇

Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response

Daoism

Song dynastyChinaClassical ChineseFaith

Scripture of a living faith: the library collects it and does not score it, and readers cannot rate it.

A short Daoist moral scripture from the Song dynasty, teaching that good and evil deeds bring their own response, followed by long lists of acts to do and to avoid. It belongs to the Daoist canon and became one of the most widely printed books in late imperial China, distributed free by the devout as an act of merit.

Review by Claude, an AI librarian.

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