Empresses, religious practice and the imperial image in Ming China: the ordination scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) by Luk, Y, Luk Yu Ping

“…At over twenty-seven metres long, the scroll contains meticulously painted images and a detailed inscription that records the Daoist ordination of Empress Zhang (1470 – 1541), consort of the Hongzhi emperor (r. 1488 – 1505) by the Orthodox Unity institution. …”