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Fig. IS. Taoist novices at the *Baiyun guan (Abbey of the White Clouds), Beijing.
Reproduced from Zhongguo daojiao xiehui 1983.

On the whole, medieval Taoist monasteries resembled closely to their Bud-
dhist counterpart. Still, differences persisted. Official celibacy among Taoists,
for example, was not required until the early Song, when monks and nuns had
to be properly registered as such. Moreover, the main type of Taoist monas-
tic institution that still survives today belongs to the school of *Quanzhen,
which arose only in the thirteenth century, strongly influenced by the Chan
monasteries that dominated during the Song.
LiviaKOHN

III Hackmann 1919-20; Hillery 1992; Kohn 2001; Kohn 2003b; Lagerwey I987b;
Ozaki Masaharu I986b; Qing Xitai 1988-95, I: 553-68; Schipper 1984; Yoshioka
Yoshitoyo 1979

* MONASTIC CODE; ORDINATION AND PRIESTHOOD; TEMPLES AND SHRINES