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• The Li Tradition
  ...mbraces Simplicity]]'', during the reign of Great Emperor Wu, a certain Li A, also named 'the eight hundred-year-old gentleman', lived without food for ...cordingly, almost one thousand locals became his followers. Li Kuan set up a room for Daoist worship, which he called 'Lu'. Afterwards, when he suffered
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• The Western Sect
  ...tude and serenity, placing Integrated Cultivation in a secondary position. Li's Daoist works included ''[[Secret Pointers of the Three Chariots]]'', ''On
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• Reversing Kan with Li
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• Venerable Grandma's Temple on Mt. Li (Lintong County, Xi’an city, Shaanxi)
  ...the Venerable Grandma on Mt. Li (Nüwa). In the 8th year, the people built a Scripture Tower of behind the main hall. The Scripture Tower was destroyed ...rable Grandma on Mt. Li transmitting the Book of Secret Correspondences to Li Quan under this mountain.
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• Li Daochun
  ...ter times as the proponent of the Middle Way sect of inner alchemy. Li was a productive writer and his major works are: #''Li's disciples edited his speeches into the books Quotations of Qing An, Maste
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• Li Xiyue
  ..., Li learned essential formulae from [[Zhang Sanfeng]] and [[Lu Dongbin]]. Li's works include ''Notes and Commentaries on the Thirteen Supreme Scriptures
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• Extraordinary Supplementary Commentary on the Book of Changes
  ...s'' (《後天卦離南坎北圖》 Houtian Gua Li Nan Kan Bei Tu ), Chart of Heaven-Earth-Kan-Li Trigrams, Chart of 8-7-9-6. Citing Three Ways Unified and Normalized, the B
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• The Ten Continents and Three
  ...s said in Daoism to be in the Eastern Sea. It has a circumference of 4,000 li, Immortalist plants grow in abundance, its jade stones stand as high as 1,0 ...tie used by the Emperor of Heaven7 to tie up the Nine Heavens8. Once upon a time, when the mythical emperor Dayu finished regulating the rivers, he cam
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• Qingtang Temple on Dragon Horn Mountain (Fushan County, Shanxi)
  ...ingtang Temple, which once again houses some Daoist priests and has become a Daoist activities site. The Qingtang Temple’s Inscribed Record of the Sai
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• Small Reversion Elixir
  ...s sense, the Small Reversion Elixir constitutes the fundamental element in a bid to extend human life.
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• Two Kings Temple (Dujiangyan, Sichuan)
  ...ion. After the founding of the Peoples’ Republic, the temple was listed as a national key protection unit of cultural relics and enjoyed good preservati ...g with a wooden statue of Yang Erlang; the Hall of the Elder King worships Li Bing and his Wife; the Hall of the Venerable Sovereign worships [[The Supre
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• Chunyang Temple (Guangzhou, Guangdong)
  ...s leading to the top. Behind the platform are the tombs of Du Yangdong and Li Mingche, the ancestral Daoists of the Palace of the Triple Origins and Chun ...Guangdong. In the fourth year of the Daoguang Era, under the help of Ruan, Li Mingche founded Chunyang Temple on the Suzhu hillock and spent the rest of
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• The Ten Continents and Three Islands
  ...s said in Daoism to be in the Eastern Sea. It has a circumference of 4,000 li, Immortalist plants grow in abundance, its jade stones stand as high as 1,0 ...Heaven ( 天帝 Tiandi ) to tie up the Nine Heavens ( 九天 Jiutian ). Once upon a time, when the mythical emperor Dayu finished regulating the rivers, he cam
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• The Middle Sect
  ...ner Alchemy]] by Daoism in later periods, although it was actually neither a religious organization nor an Inner Alchemy sect. ...eeping to the Middle. In the ''General Summary of Perfect Men and Sects'', a Daoist book kept in the [[White Cloud Temple]], this method of Inner Alchem
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• Daoist Nursery Rhymes
  Nursery rhymes have a very early origin. According to the chapter "The 25th Year in the ''Reign o ...wer Tradition (樓觀道 louguan dao) . So it was likely to have been created by a Daoist.
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• Green Maiden Brews Snow
  ...od' in the trigram figures." In this regard, the 'green maiden' had become a symbol of inner alchemy. There is no doubt Bai Yuchan was very familiar wit ...le and energetic young lady. In her arms, snow melts just as wine brews in a jar.
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• The Encountering Immortality Sect
  As a sect of [[The Complete Perfection Tradition]], the ''Encountering Immortali ...Chao Xu, Nei Datong, Liu Zhenyi, Yu Zhidao (or Zhiyuan), Yang Minzhen and Li Dachen.
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• Li Rong’s Notes on the Laozi
  ...e being or the nonbeing, the medicine itself is also discarded. Not owning a thing, one enters the wonderful condition of twofold mystery. The book is o
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• The school of Esoteric Speculations
  ...the Ancestral Dragon will die'. '''Books of Auguries''' ( 緯書 Weishu ) were a kind of scripture which gave mysterious and esoteric interpretations to the Actually, Esoteric Speculations were a kind of ancient political psychology based on religious propaganda, used by
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• Cloud Light Grotto in the Iron Peak Mountain of Nine Cauldrons
  ...ests. In the top lies the Cloud Light Grotto, the place where Long Eyebrow Li, an ancient immortal who, according to local tales, used to exercise cultiv ...ely Patriarch Guo's Tower, constructed. Beside the bottom of the tower ran a spring called the Nature Well, which provides locals with sweet water the y
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• Mt. Gaofeng Daoist Temple (Pengxi County, Sichuan)
  ...the east, west, south and north according to the trigrams Qian, Kuan, Kan, Li. Simple and natural, the temple has its unique style. The temple has preser In 1986 the Suining People’s Government approved the temple to open as a site of Daoist activities and returned it to the hands of the Daoists.
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• The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea
  ...Cao Guojiu's jade tablet, and Lan Caihe's big clappers, each of which has a unique power. ...ht Immortals congratulating her on her birthday. Among the people there is a kind of square table, which is called "the Eight Immortals table". All thes
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• The Twofold Mystery School
  ...school became the most influential of Daoist Laozi Learning schools. Even Li Nongji, the Xuanzong Emperor of the Tang dynasty, based himself on the Twof ...chool was still felt in ancient Sichuan, although it had been declining as a whole. Even in the Southern Song dynasty, old scholars like Shao Royui and
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• Immortal Temple of Cloudy Springs on Mt. Xiqiao (Nanhai, Guangdong)
  ...Qing dynasty (1777), a native of Nanhai, Li Gongyu, built Gongyu Tower for a group of intellectuals to study there and prepare for the imperial examinat ...or the Cloudy Springs Daoists." He invites Reverend Daoist ( 道長 Daozhang ) Li Fajun, who is expert in Dragon Gate shadow boxing, to take charge of Daoist
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• The Pristine Water Tradition
  ...Li of the Eastern Jin dynasty (AD 317-420) was a disciple of Wang Puyang, a master of the Pristine Water Tradition living in the capital city, who used
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• Qianyuan Temple (Gourong, Jiangsu)
  ...Abbot ( 住持 zhuchi )'s room, the Tower of [[The Big Dipper]] ( 斗姆 doumu ), a three-storied palace-like building the Songfeng Pavilion, and sleeping hous ...overnment of Jintan County approved of restoring the Qian Origin Temple as a Complete Perfection temple for female Daoists to open to the public. Till n
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• The Yellow Emperor Loses his Pearl
  ...uggested that Dao ought to be the result of spontaneity and non-action. If a man changes the pursuit for Dao into intentional behavior, he leaves the Da
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• Wu Jun
  ...seclusion. In the 13th year of Dali in Daizong's time (778 AD), Wu died in a Daoist temple in Xuancheng. Wu's followers conferred him the title of Gentl
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• Daoist Novels of Legends
  ...n the late Tang dynasty. Since the Song dynasty, scholars have taken it as a general name for novels of the Tang. Daoist novels of legends are one type ...assing through many places, cured sickness and exorcised with it; and that a slave girl, reflected by the ancient mirror, revealed her true features as
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• Journey to the West of the Perfect Man of Eternal Spring
  .... The end of vol. 2 contains Genghis Khan's imperial descript, decrees and a letter inviting Qiu Chuji to head Tianchang Temple. This book is important
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• The Magic and Immoratality tradition
  ...he Han dynasty, the Immortalists and the rulers encouraged one another. As a result, there occured the widely known events in Chinese history, of rulers ...ntative figures were Song Wuji, Zheng Boqiao, Xu Fu, Lu Sheng, Li Shaojun, Li Shaoweng, Le Da, Gong Sunqing, etc. Immortalist ideology became an essentia
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• The Great Collection of Daoist Rituals
  ...sidence, starting offering, setting up altar, and confessing sins, etc. As a collection of Daoist rituals, the book, though incomplete, contains many ri
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• The Book of Master Tuo Yue
  ...through refining and discarding the Yin with fetched Yang, can one become a man of pure Yang. This book about the way of [[inner alchemy]] interpreted
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• Pointers on Spiritual Nature and Bodily Life
  ..., the book may have been completed during the Ming Dynasty. The book, with a wide-range quotations and charted exposition, illustrates the theory and pr
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• Temple of the Southern Sacred Mountain (Shishou, Hubei)
  ...is serene and beautiful. Especially, to the east of the temple, there is "a stone pond, also known as 'dragon's cave'", which was recorded in books suc
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• Record of the Immortals Encountered at Ganshui
  ...rchs and over sixty disciples, and inscriptions for the sect's temples. As a collection of the decrees and inscriptions about the sect collected in the
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• Daoist Fiction
  Daoist fiction is a combination of the Daoist belief and fiction and an artistic expression of ...Zhanghui (a type of traditional Chinese novel with each chapter headed by a couplet giving the gist of its content).
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• Min Yide
  ...of Qianlong, he resigned from office and returned to Wuxing, where he led a secluded life on Mt. Jingai. Then he was put in charge of the religious aff ...Daoists, and petty officials and servants admired his Daoist demeanor, and a lot of people associated with him or became his disciples.
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• The Book of Divine Incantations of the Supreme Pervasive Abyss
  ...hat after the disturbance of the kalpa in the final age, Perfect Sovereign Li Hong is born and is assisted by sages, virtuous people, Immortals and Daois
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• Daoism in Korea
  ...Yuanzong practiced Daoist Keeping Awake at the Day of Genshen and made it a national custom. ...ds of Daoist moral tracts ( 道教勸善書 Daojiao Quanshan Shu ) to Korea. Because a Daoist organization was not formed in Korea, it vanished into folk beliefs
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• Dunhuang Daoist Literature
  ...g studies had concentrated on Buddhism over a long period of time. 1980's, a scholar from Sichuan, Long Hui, began to write special papers on Dunhuang D ...es story-telling as its style. The humorous relation enables people to get a glimpse of the traces of the Daoist colloquial stories of the Tang dynasty.
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• Laozi's Creative Use of The Concept of Dao
  ...s successors. From the pre-Qin era onwards, Daoist philosophers engaged in a great many reflections and discussions on Laozi's ideas: over one thousand
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• The Book of the Five Dippers
  ...Book of the Five Dippers'' ( 五斗經 Wudou Jing ), whose author is unknown, is a Daoist scripture. It collects the ''Mysterious and Numinous Big Dipper's Su ...ons from the Daoist Canon]] ( 道藏輯要 Daozang Jiyao ). It is considered to be a work revealed through Planchette Writing ( 扶乩 Fuji ) by Daoist priests
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• Daoist Astronomy
  ...ell wrapping the earth, which floats in the ball of heaven in the shape of a board, while the sun, the moon, and stars are attached to the ball of heave ...ers and astrologists were Daoists or persons influenced by Daoism, such as Li Chunfeng, Yuan Tiangang, and so on.
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• The Master Yu Tradition
  ...nd lower reaches of the Yangtze river. The sect took as its founder Yu Ji, a famous Daoist of the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220) who had preached ''[[T ...a case of "Deliverance from the Corpse". They continued to worship him for a long time.
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• On Supreme Correspondence
  ...cially and non-officially. The printing of the book itself was regarded as a good deed. What is more, there were varied annotations of the book, among w
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• Refinement of Emptiness into Dao
  ...f thinking in Daoism and a reminder of “Breaking Attachment” ( 破執 Pozhi ), a well-known concept in both Daoism and Buddhism. ...Lianshen Huanxu ). According to Daoism, even in a phase of Emptiness, when a man was attached, he remained in control of “Interfering Action”; only
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• The Great Dao Doctrine
  ...e Yuan dynasty, the Great Dao Doctrine saw its fifth generation partriarch Li Xicheng, who won the trust of the rulers and changed the sect's name to the
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• Feminine Daoist Poems
  ...subtle and sentimental, or lucid and elegant in using allusions. They form a peculiar scene of ancient Daoist poems.
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• The Kettle-Heaven World
  ...he gourd without any difficulty. Also to his surprise, the gourd harboured a fairyland where he saw beautiful buildings high into sky and winding corrid ...Tang dynasty, mentioned it in a poem, which went: 'fairyland exists inside a gourd, just as hermits hide themselves in clouds hung from high cliffs'.
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• The Legendary Biographies of the Immortals
  ...iographies of the Immortals''. The ''[[Biographies of the Immortals]]'' is a part of Daoist literature. Since the publication of ''Biographies of the Im
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• Inner Alchemy
  ...important concept in the Theory of Inner Alchemy, which came into being in a much later period. In addition, in Zhuangzi, we find terms such as the Fast ...ltivation of Inner Alchemy had already been put into practice although, as a term, it was rarely used then.
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• The Highest Ancient Scripture of the Dragon and Tiger
  ...it symbolizes a cauldron with trigrams Qian and Kun, medicine with Kan and Li and the fire phases with rest 60. It compiles elixir formulae in images fro
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• Refinement of Spirit Back to Emptiness
  ...s regarded as the speechless nature of Dao, which used to be symbolized by a circular shape. Inner Alchemists used it to describe the oblivion of self-e ...ortal [[Lu Dongbing]] was known as Chun Yangzi, namely a man of pure Yang, a name reminescent of the Refinement of Spirit Back to Emptiness, an importan
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• Mt. Lao
  .... The Daoist Sun Xuanqing of Ming Dynasty, becoming a Daoist on Mt. Lao as a child, founded the Jinshan Sect or Mt. Lao Sect. ...northwest of the peak of Mt. Lao. Near the top of Xuanwu Peak about three li from the north of Temple of the Highest Clarity is Mingxia Grotto, whose ma
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• Essays on Harmony
  ...e spirit, take place at this pass. This theory of Keeping to the Middle is a distinctive own system in Daoist Inner Alchemy, and was called [[The Middle
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• Daoist Chemistry
  ...periments, achievements, and their instruments, equipment and methods laid a foundation for the birth of modern chemistry. So Daoist alchemy can also be ...fire techniques, as well as in theory and practice. Daoist alchemy entered a period of great prosperity in the Tang dynasty. The gentry class was engros
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• The Eight Immortals
  ...as ordinary people. They were Zhong Liquan, Zhang Guolao, [[Lü Dongbin]], Li Tieguai, He Xiangu, Nan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and Chao Guojiu. The Eight Immor ...rmally wore his hair in two buns, with a big fan in his hand, and exposing a big belly. He was popularly known as the Free Perfect man.
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• The Dragon Gate Sect
  ...n the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Dragon Gate sect ( 龍門派 Longmen Pai ) is a branch of Wang Chongyang's school, which advocates carrying on the Patriarc ...al Piety'' ( 孝經 Xiaojing ) and the ''[[Laozi]]'' in order for them to have a comprehensive understanding of the Three Teachings (Daoism, Confucianism an
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• Free Singing in the Realm of Mystery
  ...her orders. The ''History of the Later Han'' ( 《後漢書》 Houhan Shu ) recorded a contest between Xu Deng and Zhao Bin, two well-known magicians, who made tr ...s a unique image, 'free singing' was found in numerous poems by Guo Pu and Li Bai on the journeys of immortals. Meanwhile, stories became another importa
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• Cloudy Mountain Temple on Mt. Yuelu (Changsha, Wunan)
  ...d in the temple. During Ming emperor Longqing’s ruling years, Jin Shoufen, a Daoist, raised some money to get more reconstruction work done. Since then, ...thern Sacred Mountain. From the branches of a tree outside the temple hang a bronze bell. According to the inscriptions on the bell, they were made in t
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• The Daoist Musical Scores Composed by Imperial Order during the Great Ming Dynasty
  ...Yuezhang ) is a compilation of Daoist scriptural rhythms attributed to Zhu Li, the Yongle emperor of the Ming dynasty. The whole piece of music is compri
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• Supreme Clarity Temple and Venerable Sovereign Platform (Luyi County, Henan)
  ...of the Historian'', [[Laozi]] was a man of Quren Li, Ku County, Chu State, a place considered to be the present-day Luyi County, Henan Province. Many Da ...e 3rd year (629) of the Wude Era of the Gaozu emperor of the Tang, emperor Li Yuan retroactively recognized Laozi as the royal ancestor and made the Laoz
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• Ma Yu
  ...e up their family property and became Daoist monks. Since then, they lived a simple and peaceful life. Before his death, Wany Chongyang conferred on Ma ...ection on a spiritual pursuit for purity and non-interference. He stressed a combination of one's mind and Spiritual Nature. On the other hand, he liken
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• Green Dragon Temple on Mt. Tiangui (Pingshan County, Hebei)
  ...then, the temple expanded to once house over 100 priests and prospered as a Daoist holy site famous in the north with the title of "Northern Wudang". ...ouds Gathering Platform" engraved on its base. The empty platform was once a recitation hall for Daoists and now is the Mt. Taihang Institute of Calligr
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• The External Alchemy Skill of Refining the Yellow and the White
  ...stic practice as well as the fact that, in alchemical practices, 'gold' is a more important substance than 'silver', the external alchemy arts were name ...g substances such as elixirs and alchemical gold, he claimed, would refine a man's body, and make him immortal. These ideas characterize the main theori
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• Mt. Heming Daoist Temple (Dayi County, Sichuan)
  ...yed severely during the "Cultural Revolution". In 1987, it was reopened as a place for Daoist practice. Today some halls, such as the Pavilion for Welco ...is cultivating the Dao, attaining the Dao, and ascending to immortality on a crane.
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• Mysterious Pearls
  ...sterious pearls" has an abstract meaning. In Daoism, however, it signifies a high level of the attainment of Dao and is related to specific methods of N ...fusion of the "Yin breath" in the liquid of heart (as shown by the trigram Li, which comprises two outer Yang hexagrammatic lines and one Yin inner hexag
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• Numerology
  ...the arts were transmitted by some non-Daoists among whom some groups make a living by practising them. Among Daoists, the most popular are divination, ...arrangements constitute a Yang Board ( 陽盤Yangpan ), otherwise they make up a Yin Board ( 陰盤Yinpan ). In the board of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trig
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• Poetry about Immortals
  ...ny people still wrote poems of this style. For example, works by Bai Juyi, Li He, etc. took on the traits of poetry about immortals. ...on to transcend mundane society; from the perspective of art, it expresses a peculiar imagination and is uses varied figures of speech, such as hyperbol
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• Rituals of Purification and of Sacrifice to the Ancestral Souls
  ...d published by the eminent Daoist [[Lou Jinyuan]] of the Qing dynasty, has a similar text and process to those of the Anterior Heaven Ritual of Hong Kon ...s murder, hanging, drowning, etc., and expresses people's ideal to live in a world without grief and ascend to Immortality after death.
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• Record of the Realization of Perfection by the Concourse of Immortals of West Mountain
  ...ccess in the national civil service examinations, Shi remained secluded as a Daoist on the West Mountain (present Jiangxi province) to cultivate the Dao
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• Stone Cave Jade Dragon Temple (Chaoyang, Guangdong)
  ...d the Highest Jade Emperor ( 玉皇上帝 Yuhuang shangdi ) in the cave, and built a temple outside it, which they called Jade Dragon Temple. Later, only dilapi ...cle]] ( 六十太歲 Liushi Taisui ), are worshipped in the hall. A bell tower and a drum-tower are built on either side of the hall.
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• Daoism during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220-581)
  ...d the ruling classes. In order to realize his goal, Kou Qianzhi introduced a series of regulations and commandments which aimed at adjusting Daoist orga ...classifying Daoist scriptures, Lu classified and adjusted Daoist texts. As a result, he wrote the Catalogue of Scriptures of the Three Grottoes ( 三洞
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• The Sublime Book of the Mind’s Correspondence with the Nine Supreme Essentials
  ...Book of the Mind's Correspondence with the Nine Essentials'' for short, is a Daoist book on [[Inner Alchemy]] ( 內丹 Neidan ) compiled by Zhang Guo of ...(In the eight trigrams, the heart is the Kan trigram and the kidney is the Li trigram. One is Yin and the other is Yang; one is the inner vital breath an
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• The Complete Perfection Tradition
  ...n and [[The Orthodox Oneness Tradition]] became the two main Daoist sects, a situation which remains unchanged even today. ...g year (1159). After that, he left his family, starting to practice Dao in a cave located near Nanshi village on [[Mt. Zhongnan]]. He called the cave th
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• Fung Ying Seen Koon (Pengying Xianguan), Hong Kong
  ...and that they were past their prime, so they thought it necessary to find a holy place for secluded cultivation from which to advocate Daoism in order ...aking it look like a natural fairyland. Seeing this, they decided to found a Daoist temple of the orthodox Dragon Gate sect on the spot.
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• Zhang Enpu
  ...d China to organize the Lay Daoists' Society ( 道教居士會 Daojiao Jushihui ) as a complement to the Daoist Society of Taiwan Province ( 台灣省道教會 Ta
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• Qiu Chuji
  ...gh the elaborations of his disciples, his ideas and thought developed into a systematic theory of mind and spiritual essence centered on Dao and the Hea
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• The Door Spirits
  ...Door Spirits. Qin Qiong was portrayed with a white face and Hu Jingde with a black face. When the spirits were ranked in the Daoist books of the Song dy
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• Jade Spring Temple (Tianshui, Gansu)
  ...Daoism, famous for its dense forests and high temples. In the mountain ran a spring called Jade Spring, whose water was considered highly efficacious in ...Attracted by the scenery, he constructed a shelter here, spending years as a hermit. In the 13th Zhiyuan year, the Venerable Sovereign Hall ( 老君殿
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• Temple of All-Embracing Heaven on Mt. Mian (Jiexiu, Shanxi)
  ...nxi Province, Mt. Mian is 160km away from the provincial capital, Taiyuan. A northern branch of Taiyue mountain, it is 2500 meters high in altitude. Acc ...till recent times. In 1995, Mr. Yan Jiying, a local lay Daoist, collected a great sum of money and started to restore Daoism in Mt. Mian. Till present,
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• Mt. Gezao
  ...ounty) of Jiangxi province, is named after the fact that its shape is like a pavilion and its color is black. It has 99 peaks and stretches for more tha ...ts of this sect said that their founder, [[Guo Xuan]], set up an altar and a fireplace in Temple Woyun in the eastern peak of Mt. Gezao, and refined gol
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• Pacing the Big Dipper
  ...easide a big bird that was good at Breath Incantations. The bird walked in a strange way and its steps could turn the huge stone upside down. Yu made th ...more new Dipper steps were compiled based on ritual contents, so there are a lot of names for them. Pacing the Big Dipper is usually practised together
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• Chen Tuan
  ...e stone room on Mt. Shaohua, and was in close contact with [[Lu Dongbin]], Li Qi and so on. Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou called him into the court a ...the Three Doctrines ( 三教合一 Sanjiao Heyi ) in the Song dynasty, and exerted a considerable influence on the Song Neo-Confucian philosophical school. It i
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• Lu Xiujing
  ...y Dao, following his desire to stand aloof from the world. At first he led a secluded life on Mt. Yunmeng. Then in order to pursue his studies of Dao an ...laymen began to believe in him. Daoism began to prosper there. Sun Youyue, Li Guozhi and so on were Lu Xiujing's most famous disciples.
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• Bells
  ...d", and "the Kunting sends out loud sounds, and the gold sheng sounds like a divine bell". After the Sui and Tang dynasties, many records of using bells ...t virtues are converged". In temples and rituals, Daoist bell striking has a specific order, and the times for striking bells have certain meanings.
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• Great Hengshan Temple on the Southern Sacred Mountain (Hengyang, Hunan)
  ...ption Gate, which comprises seven bays and features single-layer eaves and a hipped gable roof. In history it was the ceremonial gate where guests were
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• Aiding Creation Temple (Meizhou, Guangdong)
  ...record the process and inscribed it in a tablet. The temple is named after a sentence from the ''Doctrine of the Mean'' ( 《中庸》 Zhongyong ) , say The temple is divided into a central hall and a rear hall. The central hall is the Precious Hall of Emperor Lu and the rear
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• S-shaped Ornamental Objects
  ...sed as a pointing instrument at that time and in later ages. So it was not a specific Daoist invention. The S-shaped Ornamental Object signifies satisfy ...d-shaped or ganoderma-shaped, and the central point is round. This implies a trinity, which means that one heart respects three treasures. Hence in the
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• Traditional Opera
  ...an dynasty, many men of letters were enthusiastic in the creation of Zaju (a poetic drama). Zaju has certain roles and acting procedures, and its conten ...Yuan dynasty, this pursuit is further specified. For example, Lu Dongbin, Li Tieguai and the like in the operas all have unusual abilities. They can eit
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• Kou Qianzhi
  ...i, a celebrated Daoist priest of the Northern Wei dynasty (AD 386-534) and a representative of the New Celestial Masters Tradition ( 新天師道 Xin Ti ..., attach the greatest importance to rituals and ordinances while following a Dietetic Regimen ( 服食 Fushi ) and practising Inner Refinement ( 閉煉
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• Portal:Daoist Music
  ...various regions, so it is religious music with Chinese characteristics and a major part of the Chinese traditional music culture. .content li {
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• Divination
  ...l cut the Evergreen plant in spring and judge if it will be a good year or a bad year according to its growth. The Evergreen is called the "thousand-yea ...for dreams. People go to sleep in a temple and take their dreams there as a god's revelation.
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• Portal:Daoist Scriptures
  ...Chinese traditional culture, Daoist scriptures are all-inclusive. They are a treasure for us to understand not only Daoism but also Chinese culture. *[[Li Rong’s Notes on the Laozi]]
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• Pure Offerings for the Supreme Peace
  ...a large-scale religious and family activity requiring a great expense and a long time for fundraising, it is held once every 10, 20 or even 30 years in ...e area. At least, they are the same kind of activity. Therefore, they have a strong folk flavour.
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• The Master of Rain
  ...ing, "the Master of Rain is Shangyang, and Shangyang is a divine bird with a single claw. It can become big or small and make seas dry when it sucks. It ...he wind. But rain is different. It may rain everywhere under heaven within a morning. Rain's merits are so extensive and great that only rain is titled
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• Shang Sin Chun Tong (Xing Shan Zhen Tang), Hong Kong
  ...the comprehension of Dao and the practice of benevolence, the fostering of a kind nature in pursuit of the written precepts of immortals and spirits rev ...尊 Wenshu GuangFa Tianzun ), the Great Immortal Master ( 大仙師 Daxian Shi ) [[Li Tieguai]], and the Great Immortal Master [[Lu Chunyang]], in order to carry
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• Mt. Wuyi
  A famous tourist spot of China, Mt. Wuyi is located in the northwest of Fujia ...r 2,000 people from his hometown. [[Bai Yuchan]] of the Song dynasty wrote a poem in praise of the matter.
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• Daoist Studies in the Great Britain
  ...religions. So the current English translation "Taoism" came in being after a long process. In 1873 , a priest named John Chamers(1825-1899) published a paper entitled "tauism" ( the English translation of Daoism at that time).
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• Mt.Tai
  ...Daoism here. Daiyu Monastery, built from 386-534, is the earliest temple. Li Daoyuan's Comments on Water Scriptures recorded that Daiyu Monastery was di ...Emerald Cloud is enshrined in the main hall. She wears phoenix coronal and a cloudy mantle, looks kind, peaceful and dignified. At the right and left si
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• Mt. Song
  ...Daoist priests cultivated here, such as Pan Shizheng, [[Sima –chengzhen]], Li Hanguang. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, Xu Changling, Helan-xizhen and Qi ...rs and roof decoration apply the most precious mixing seal color painting. A five-meter tall statue of Great Temple of Mt. Song sits in the middle shrin
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• The Heavenly Lord of Dao and its Virtue
  ...as born under a plum tree with the ability to speak, and took his surname "Li" after the tree. According to the Inscription in Honor of Laozi ( 老子鉻 [[The Seven Slips of a Cloudy Satchel]] ( 雲笈七籤 Yunji Qiqian ) says, "Laozi is the Venerabl
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• Eight Immortals Temple (Baxiangong) , Xi'an
  ...rived and constructed a building named "baxian an". This temple had become a well-known Daoist temple in the Ming dynasty. ...ed the title "Perfect Man Wearing Jade Hat and Dressed in Purple Robe" and a tablet inscribed with the words "supreme Dao of Jade Purity". In addition,
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• Supreme Clarity Temple (Taiqinggong) , Shenyang
  ==A Brief Introduction== ...s developed into the most influential Daoist temple in northeast China and a center for Daoist activities.
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• Wudang Supreme Oneness Five-Agents Boxing
  ...in 1929 he went to Wudang Mountain and learned this boxing tradition from Li Helin. Puxuan kept practicing this boxing secretly. He didn't reveal and tr ...one cuts in with a foot to block the enemy's vanguard foot, and then turns a knee and presses the enemy to freeze him or even break his shank, and strik
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• Three Origins Temple (Sanyuangong) , Guangzhou
  ...玉皇 Yuhuang ), the Hall of [[The Big Dipper]] ( 斗姥 Doumu ) along with quite a few houses. ...in; that his clothes and hat belonged to the Triple Origin Temple and that a burial mound should be built for them; that his statue belonged to the Yuan
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• Daoist Poetry
  ==Daoist poetry has a very early origin== ..., which is rhymed as the embryonic form of seven-character-per-line poems. A contemporary book, [[''The Three Ways Unified and Normalized of the Book of
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• Mt. Qiyun
  .... Qiyun has the literary title "Zhonghe", ancient people called the latter a "Small Mt. Wudang in the South of the River". ...Oneness Sect]] ( 正一 Zhengyi ) of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, presented a memorial to the emperor and commanded the Daoist devotees to perform offeri
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• Imperial Sovereign Wenchang
  ..." ( 神文聖武孝德忠仁王 Shenwen Shengweu Xiaode zhongren Wang ) conferred by Emperor Li. In the third year of the Yanyou Era of Emperor Ren of the Yuan dynasty (AD ...iced them and succeeded. Therefore, Imperial Sovereign Wenchang is seen as a model for filial piety and benevolence. '' [[The Book of Hidden Virtues of
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• Lookout Tower Platform (Louguantai), Shanxi
  ...ixty emperors went there in person or sent officials to worship Laozi over a hundred times, and sponsored constructions many times. For example, emperor ...h modern management experience into a unique system. The temple has raised a generation of Daoist priests versed in Daoist rituals of Fasts and Offering
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• Sima Chengzhen
  ...desire. He was good at carving seals and writing official script, and had a unique style known as "Golden scissors' calligraphy". Emperor Xuanzong orde
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• Zhang Sanfeng
  Zhang Sanfeng ( 張三丰 Zhang Sanfeng ) was a Daoist from Yizhou of Laodong (southwest of present-day Zhangwu in Liaoning ...ng. He also authored a treatise on Taiji shadowboxing ( 太極拳 Taijiquan ) as a method to cultivate Dao and keep fit, which is still very popular even toda
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• The Three Mao Perfect Sovereign Brothers
  ...styled himself Jiwei. During the reign of the Han dynasty Emperor Jin, as a man of good virtue, he was recommended to hold governmental position. After ...perors including the first emperor Tai, emperor Zhen, emperor Hui, emperor Li, etc. Mao Ying was called 'Perfect Elder Sovereign Mao of the Perfect Corre
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• Mt. Wudang
  ...ith its magnificent temples, the mountain attracts endless pilgrims. It is a famous Daoist sacred site in China. ...meday." As things turned out, after Zhu Di, king of Yan, rose in revolt as a military governor of the northern outlying prefectures and usurped the thro
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• The Emperors of the Soil
  ...theory of the 32 heavens, allocating eight to each of the four directions. A commentary by Yan Dong of the Northern Qi dynasty says: "It totals 32 heave ...llocated to each of Nine Realms ( 九磊 Jiulei ), each with its own name, for a total of 36 Emperors of the Soil. According to the Fasting Rituals of the R
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• King Yu Temple on Mt. Tu (Bengbu, Anhui)
  ..., was the seat of the ancient Tushan Kingdom and the place where Dayu took a wife and convened dukes for the first time. It is located in the western su ...oreover, the temple was classified as a major temple of Anhui Province and a major historical and cultural site under state protection.
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• Portal:Daoist Beliefs
  ...s, and so on. Each of the latter has several interrelated aspects, forming a complete system. Owing to historical differences, to different trends in Da .content li {
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• Mt. Qingcheng
  ...trees, is green all year round, and surrounded by peaks, it is shaped like a city, so it enjoys the laudatory title "the green city". Known in Daoism as ...d Offerings ( 齋醮 Zhaijiao ); Chen Qingjue of the Qing dynasty, who founded a branch of [[The Dragon Gate Sect]] ( 龍門派 Longmen Pai ), the Elixir Pl
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• White Cloud Temple (Baiyunguan), Beijing
  ...rial order. In the same year, Patriarch Qiu passed away. His disciples set a lower court in the east of the Eternal Spring Temple to bury his remains, o ...Abbot of the White Cloud Temple. Emperor Kangxi thought highly of him. As a crown prince, Kangxi received the "Commandment of Convenience" ( 方便戒
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• Daoism during the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (581-907)
  ...the number of Daoist followers. In his old age, he developed himself into a devout believer in the Daoist philosophy of Immortality and longevity. ...m was not only very significant to the development of Daoism, but also had a far-reaching influence on the rulers of the Tang Dynasty.
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• Rituals of Purification and Salvation
  ...rituals of refinement and salvation. According to the fact that there are a lot of records about rituals of refinement and salvation in many collection ...refinement and rebirth. Water and fire are placed outside, and the Kan and Li (trigrams) communicate inside. The nine Vital Breaths are provided for the
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• Temple of Extasy (Sulaoguang), Guangdong
  ...eir breath turned into extasy. They each went away on wind carts, leaving "a taste of shortbreads and junkets filling all the heavens", so the temple wa ...rees which shelter it from above, and below it limpid water converges into a pool, where no human sound but the splash of the waterfall can be heard, an
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• Finger Gestures
  ...e hand or palm with the thumb, or constructing certain fixed gestures with a couple of fingers. It is thought that by so doing, the Daoist can inspire t ...enpu ) and theories of Daoist skills, so that finger gesture making became a comprehensive system.
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• Mt. Mao Daoist Temple (Gourong, Jiangsu)
  ...four treasures refer to a jade seal, a jade scepter, a jade talisman, and a Ha inkstone, all of which are curiosities of the Song dynasty. ...Jianzhai. Having undergone drastic changes, in the late 1970s, except for a few rooms of the Longevity Platform and Mianzhai Daoist House, all the othe
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• Daoist Studies in Korea
  ...hich accounts for the fact that there were people studying Daoism in Korea a long time ago, of whom Yi Gyugyeong was one of the most famous. He was a scholar of the practical school in the Korean Dynasty. ''The Five-State Dis
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• Ancient Temple of the Yellow Dragon (Huanglong Guguan), Guangdong
  ...is place for the cult of the four scholars of the past, namely Zhou Dunyi, Li Yanping, Luo Qingshun, and Chen Baisha. During the years of Kangxi of the Q ...buds, flamboyant trees and green pines that line both sides of the way and a tortuous mountain path. Then passing two other simple but elegant decorated
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• The Spirit of Wealth
  ...ness, and brings good results to pious prayer. In the Romance of the Gods, a fiction of the Ming dynasty, in which the heroes were designated as gods, Z ...Civil Spirit of Wealth normally wears good clothing, a hat and shoes, with a white and smiling face which fits the happy atmosphere of the new year. At
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• The Kitchen Spirit
  ...Kitchen Sovereign Who Controls Destinies and Good Fortune, there is always a portrait of an elderly couple, namely the Kitchen Sovereign and his wife. ...day of Gengshen, it reports to [[the Jade Emperor]] ( 玉帝 Yudi ) and makes a calculation at the end of each month. After three years, Heaven will certai
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• Daoist Studies in Italy
  ...icial for 17 years. After he returned to Italy in 1292, he was captured in a war and dictated Travels of Marco Polo, in which he mentioned the fertile l ...Guangqi, Li Zhizao, Feng Yingjing, and Yang Tingjun. In 1610 he died from a disease in Beijing. In his late years of life he wrote about his experience
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• Guanyin (Avalokitesvara)
  ...a Wujinyi asked Sakyamuni: " why does the Bodhisattva Guanshiyin have such a name?" The Bodhisattva Guanshiyin answered herself: " I attained Buddhahood ...The difficult things included using a bamboo basket to carry water to fill a pond, weaving one hundred chi dresses in one night, etc.. Miaoshan prayed t
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• Hanging Up Zhongkui's Pictures and the Realgar Wine
  ...he custom of the Song dynasty, people knit a grass Celestial Master riding a tiger and hung it on their door to dispel vices.
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• Daoist Temples
  ...ecommended by the Daoist priests after mass discussion. The officials hold a one year term. They can renew their term of office if elected consecutively ...rge scale, a big amount of property, and many Daoist priests, so they have a set of well-organized administrative systems.
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• Understanding Dao and Establishing Virtue
  ...ver, the instructions cannot replace one's own study and practice. Only if a person comprehends and cultivates Dao by himself, can he obtain Dao for him ...they originally possess. Hence they cannot find out the direction of Dao. A person can clarify the embodiment of Dao only if he reduces his pursuit of
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• Daoism during the Song and Yuan Dynasties
  ...re occeured the so-called "descent of the heavenly book". It was said that a Divine Man told the emperor that three heavenly passages of the ''Auspiciou ...ed the number of Daoists. As a result Daoism developed greatly and enjoyed a very high social position. The reigns of the emperors Zhenzong and Huizong
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• Daoist Studies in Australia
  ...he 20th century. However, due to its population and unique history, it has a slower economic and cultural development than some European and Latin Ameri ...s works included: ''Chinese Popular Novels in the Two Libraries in London, A Study on the Edition of Popular Literature in Ming and Qing Dynasties'', an
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