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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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