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26 August 2009
Tan Chuduan
Created page with '==The Life of Tan Chuduan ( 譚處端 Tan Chuduan ) (1123-1185)== His original name was Yu, and he styled himself Boyu. Later he was styled Tongzheng, with the Daoist name Chudua...'
Ma Yu
Created page with '==Ma Yu's Life== Ma Yu's personal name was Chongyi, and his literal name was Yipu. In later years, he changed his personal name in Yu and his literary name to Xuanbao. He also st...'
Bai Yuchan
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Bai Yuchan
Created page with '==Bai Yuchan's Life== His original name was Ge Changgen. Because his stepfather's family name was Bai, his name was changed to Bai Yuchan. His literary names included Ruhui, Ziqi...'
Chen Nan
Created page with 'Chen Nan's literary name was Nanmu, and he styled himself Chuixu. He lived during the Southern Song dynasty, and came from Bonou of Huizhou, which is located in Guangzhou provinc...'
Xue Shi
Created page with '==Xue Shi's Life== His other names were Xue Daoguang and Xue Daoyuan, and his literary name was Taiyuan. He lived in the Northern Song dynasty, and came from the Nang realm, whic...'
Shi Tai
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Shi Tai
Created page with '==Shi Tai's Life== Shi Tai's literary name was Dezhi. He styled himself either Xingling or Chuixuanzi. He was born in Changzhou. His life spanned the end of the Northern Song dy...'
Zhang Ziyang
Created page with '==Zhang Ziyang's Life== Zhang's personal name was Boduan and his literary name was Pingshu. He styled himself Ziyang, or Immortal Ziyang. In later years, he changed his perosnal ...'
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Patriarch Wang Chongyang
Created page with '==The Life of Wang Chongyang Family Name== '''Family name:''' Wang '''Given Name:''' originally Zhongfu, later changed to Dewei '''Literary Name:''' originally Yunqin, later ...'
Liu Haichan
Created page with '==The Life of Liu Haichan== '''Family name:''' Liu '''Given Name:''' Cao '''Literary Name:''' Zongcheng or Zhaoyuan '''Daoist Name:''' Master Haichan '''Birthday:''' 14th...'
Patriarch Lu Dongbing
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Patriarch Lu Dongbing
Created page with '==The Life of Lü Dongbin == '''Family Name:''' Lü '''Given name:''' Yan '''Literary Name:''' Dongbin '''Alias:''' Master Chunyang '''Birthday:''' born at the sixth stem (...'
Zhongli Quan
Created page with '==The Life of Zhongli Quan Family Name== '''Family name:''' Zhongli '''Given Name:''' Quan '''Literary Name:''' Yunfang or Jidao '''Alias:''' Master Zhengyang or Master Heg...'
Wang Xuanpu
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Wang Xuanpu
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Wang Xuanpu
Created page with '==The Life of Wang Xuanpu Family name== Family name: Wang Given name: Cheng Literary name: Xuanpu Alias: Imperial Sovereign Donghua ( 東華帝君 Donghua Dijun ); Lesser Y...'
Chen Jingyuan
Created page with 'Chen Jingyuan (1024-1094 AD), alias Taichu, was a famous Daoist scholar as well as a Daoist of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). He named himself Master of Azure Emptiness ( ...'
Zhang Jixian
Created page with '==Life of Zhang Jixian== Zhang Jixian (AD 1092-1127) was styled Zunzheng (also Jiawen and Daozheng) and was also known by his literary name Shuranzi, which means 'Detached Master...'
Wang Wengqing
Created page with '==Life of Wang Wenqing== Wang Wenqing (AD 1093-1153) was a celebrated Daoist priest during the last years of the Northern Song dynasty and the first years of the Southern Song dy...'
Chen Tuan
Created page with '==Life of Chen Tuan== Chen Tuan, who styled himself Tu Nan and had the sobriquet Fuyaozi, was a renowned Daoist priest during the Five Dynasties and the first years of the Song d...'
Tan Qiao
Created page with 'Tan Qiao from Quan Zhou, alias Jing Sheng, was a Daoist at the turn of the Tang (618-907) and the Five Dynasties (907-960), and he was an extraordinary Daoist scholar as well. Wi...'
Du Guangting
Created page with '==Life of Du Guangting== Du Guangting (AD 850-933) was a celebrated Daoist figure of the Five Dynasties following the last years of the Tang dynasty. He was styled Binsheng (or B...'
Wu Jun
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Wu Jun
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Wu Jun
Created page with 'Wu Jun (?-778 AD), alias Zhenjie, was a famous Daoist of the Tang dynasty (618-907). He was from Huayin (today's Huayin County of Shaanxi province). It is also said he was from L...'
Cheng Xuanying
Created page with 'Cheng Xuanying, alias Zi Shi, was a Daoist in the early time of the Tang dynasty (618-907), and he was an outstanding Daoist scholar at the time. Cheng was born in Shan Zhou (in ...'
Sima Chengzhen
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Sima Chengzhen
Created page with '==Life of Sima Chengzhen== Sima Chengzhen (AD 647-735) was a renowned Daoist priest of the Tang dynasty. He styled himself Ziwei and adopted the religious name Daoyin. He was bor...'
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Sun Simiao
Created page with '==Life of Sun Simiao== Sun Simiao (AD 581-682), born in Huayuan, Jingzhao, was a celebrated Daoist priest and medical expert of the Tang dynasty. He was intelligent and fond of l...'
Tao Hongjing
Created page with '==Life of Tao Hongjing== The peak is so high as to tower to the skies, while the stream is so clear that the bottom can be seen." This is a famous sentence in ''Response to Zhong...'
Lu Xiujing
Created page with '==Life of Lu Xiujing== Lu Xiujing (AD 406-477), whose courtesy name was Yuande and whose sobriquet was Jianji, was a renowned Daoist priest of Song during the Southern Dynasties....'
Kou Qianzhi
Created page with '==Life of Kou Qianzhi== Kou Qianzhi, a celebrated Daoist priest of the Northern Wei dynasty (AD 386-534) and a representative of the New Celestial Masters Tradition ( 新天師...'
Wei Huacun
Created page with 'Wei Huacun (252-334 AD), alias Xian An, was a woman Daoist of the Jin dynasty. In Daoist books she was called the Primordial Sovereign of Purple Voidness ( 紫虛元君 Zixu Yuan...'
Xu Xun (Perfect Lord Xu1)
Created page with '==Reason for Xu Xun's study of Dao== Xu Xun, a celebrated Daoist priest of the Jin dynasty (AD 265-420), was styled Jingzhi and born in Nanchang. Both his grandfather and father ...'
Ge Hong
Created page with '==Life of Ge Hong== Ge Hong, whose courtesy name was 'The Young River' (Zhichuan) and was nicknamed 'The Master Who Embraces Simplicity ( 抱朴子 Baopuzi ), was a famous Daoist...'
Ge Xuan
Created page with '==Biography of Ge Xuan (Immortal Elder Ge)== Ge Xuan (Immortal Elder Ge), styled Xiaoxian, was a native of Danyang in the state of Wu during the period of the Three Kingdoms (AD ...'
Huang Chuping (Great Immortal Huang)
Created page with '==Background of Huang Chuping (Great Immortal Huang)== Huang Chuping (Great Immortal Huang), a Daoist priest of the Jin Dynasty and a celebrated Daoist Immortal, was born in Jinh...'
Wei Boyang
Created page with '==Background of Wei Boyang== Wei Boyang, a famous alchemist of the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220), was also known by his literary name Yunyazi. A native of Shangyu, Guiji, he w...'
Zhang Daoling (Patriarch of the Celestial Masters)
Created page with '==The origin of Zhang Daoling == Zhang Daoling, the Ancestral Celestial Master ( 祖天師 Zu Tianshi ), was named Ling and later Daoling, and styled Fuhan. He was a man of Fen...'
The Venerable Sovereign Opening the Sky
Created page with 'As the patriarch of Daoism, the Venerable Sovereign appeared in many stories, among which was the story about opening the sky. According to the ''Book of the Supreme Venerable So...'
Wu Meng's Piety to his Mother
Created page with 'Living in the period of the Wei and Jin dynasties, Wu Meng was a Daoist of the sect which, with Perfect Man Xu Xun at the core of its pantheon, became famous for its strong faith...'
Immortal Lu's Flying Sword
Created page with 'Immortal Lu referred to Lu Dongbing, who used to call himself 'Double Mouth Daoist', based on his last name in classical Chinese, which combined two Chinese characters for "m...'
Smiling and Holding Flat Peaches
Created page with 'In ancient Chinese stories, a flat peach was a symbolic image, which, in later periods, was associated with Daoism, standing for human longevity. In Daoist stories, flat peaches ...'
Free Singing in the Realm of Mystery
Created page with ''Free singing' ( 嘯詠 Xiaoyong ) was a unique singing skill in Daoist literature. Originally, it referred to skills of producing voices. In the Tang dynasty, Shun Guang, the au...'
Golden Light Shooting into the Azure
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A Fortunate Meeting of Mysterious Winds
Created page with 'This idiom came from a story, which was originally recorded in the ''Records of a Fortunate Meeting'' ( 《玄風慶會錄》 Xuanfeng Qinghui Lu ), a book on the historic meetin...'
Golden Light Shooting into the Azure
Created page with 'The story was originally mentioned in the poem Snow ''of the Collection of Highest Clarity'' ( 《上清集‧詠雪》 Shangqingji Yongxue ) by Bai Yuchan, who wrote in the ...'
Green Maiden Brews Snow
Created page with 'The story was originally mentioned in the poem ''Snow of the Collection of Highest Clarity'' ( 《上清集‧詠雪》 Shangqingji Yongxue ) by Bai Yuchan, who wrote in the ...'
The Kettle-Heaven World
Created page with 'The story was originally recorded in books like the ''History of the Latter Han'' ( 《後漢書》 Houhan Shu ) and the ''Record of the Elixir Platform'' ( 《丹台錄》 Danda...'