524 hun y. lye
esoteric savants; other ghost-feeding traditions, such as those of the
Song Tiantai community, resisted or at least avoided any further
esotericization.
Although originally arising from different communities with dis-
similar ideological commitments, both these ghost-feeding traditions
eventually coalesced and shed their differences in the Ming and Qing
periods, in the form of liturgies such as the Mengshan shishi yi
Mount Meng Food-offering Ritual )^6 and the Yuqie yankou
shishi yi Yoga of Flaming-mouth Food-bestowal
Ritual ),^ liturgies that continue to be performed regularly in contem-
porary Chinese Buddhism.
(^6) For a translation of this liturgy, see Stevenson 2004.