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  • ...ep soil. Logically, taking substances such as elixirs and alchemical gold, he claimed, would refine a man's body, and make him immortal. These ideas char ...s the Qin and Han dynasties. During Emperor Wu's reign of the Han dynasty, Li Shaojun, a famous magician, submitted to the emperor a secret of immortalit
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  • ...es is the Hall of the Celestial Master, sponsored by a local believer, Mr. Li Yaoheng. Enshrined there is a statue of Ancestral Celestial Master Zhang Da ...長 Daozhang ) Zhang was formerly chairman of Dayi Martial Arts Association. He enjoyed a reputation for Daoist martial arts among Daoists. After Reverend
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  • ...ound and spread his religion. In the fall of the ninth Dading year (1169), he came back to Shanxi along with four disciples (Qiu, Liu, Tan and Ma), while ...dition could be found everywhere in the North. Patriarch Qiu died in 1227. He was buried in the Eternal Spring Temple's Chushun Hall, which is now known
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  • ...ear, after Qiu went to the Western Regions with eighteen of his disciples, he was revered as "Immortal", and the Emperor conferred him the title 'Patriar ...life and benefit other people, do good deeds, and cultivate their virtue. He hoped that the outer practice of Dao by doing benevolent deeds could contri
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  • ...bility to contend with the government for tax money. Apart from the above, he didn't add too much to Daoist theory. Since then, the Northern Celestial Ma
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  • ..., whenever a Daoist persists in Cultivation and Refinement ( 修煉 Xiulian ), he will finally attain the Dao and fly to immortality on a crane. In 2000, ano
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  • ...to pursue his studies of Dao and look for traces of Immortals ( 仙 Xian ), he traveled to all the famous mountains, and his reputation spread far and wid ...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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  • ...Nothing' ( 希夷先生 Xiyi Xiansheng ). In the second year of Duangong (AD 989), he died in Zhaochao Valley, under the Lotus Peak. ...nite'' ( 無極圖 Wuji Tu ) and carved it onto the cliffs of Mt. Hua. Moreover, he drew a ''Chart of Anterior Heaven'' ( 先天圖 Xiantian Tu ), which integr
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  • ...petitioned to the emperor that together with Hu Jingde (or Weichi Jingde), he would like to stand outside the bedroom door in martial attire to guard the
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  • ...ji]], came to this place on his tour to Shaanxi. Attracted by the scenery, he constructed a shelter here, spending years as a hermit. In the 13th Zhiyuan ...the water in the spring to cure his eyes when he was living in the shelter he built for himself in this place. Since then, it has also been known as the
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  • ...red and ate medicinal herbs. Then he lived in seclusion on Mt. Song, where he practiced Dao for seven years and gradually became famous. #In the second year of Shenrui (A.D. 415), he declared that [[the Supreme Venerable Sovereign]] ( 太上老君 Tianshang
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  • ...in Temple of Guangzhou, once travelled along the Xiangjiang River to visit Li Daoming, the owner of Benli Garden in Anle Village, Fen Ridge. The reason f ...on, led by President Feng Diping, President-for-Life Qiu Fuxiong, Chairmen Li Xianhua and Lu Weigan, Vice-Chairmen Huang Chiquan and Zhu Yongchang, and t
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  • ...lixir after touring the series of the famous peaks. After he attained Dao, he ascended the Heaven. ...zao. In the early Ming Dynasty, the royal court awarded the 50th successor Li Banxian, the 51st Zhang Zhunli and the 52nd Huang Guxu of Mt. Gezao as the
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  • ...g Dipper are two kinds of major physical movements of the ritual master as he conducts Magical Skills. ...here was another story about it. When Yu harnessed the water and the land, he saw on the seaside a big bird that was good at Breath Incantations. The bir
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  • ...reat sum of money and started to restore Daoism in Mt. Mian. Till present, he and others have built over 60 halls and 600 statues, ranked as the highest ...ongming as the Martial God of Wealth ( 武財神 Wu Caishen ) and Bi Gan and Fan Li as the Civil Gods of Wealth ( 文財神 Wen Caishen )), the Hall of Salvati
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  • ..., and styled himself Zhiji. He did pass the provincial exam that year." Mr.Li changed his name according to the revelation in his dream and made his wish ...f scholarly ranks. Whoever circles by him will surely pass the civil exam. He Zhuan dreamed of this god, so it was natural for him to be successful in th
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  • ...the three lights of the Sun, Moon and Stars." "As the incarnation of Dao, he shelters and saves people." [[The Chart of the Ranks of the Perfected Souls ...d the highest true perfect Dao, numinous and subtle beyond name. Therefore he says: "Born before the formless, originated before supreme origin, fully gr
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  • ...mperor Lu. In the 13th year (1887) of the Guangxu era of the Qing dynasty, Li Peng and Jin Guixin, the mayors of the Jiaying county and city, prepared to ...prayer, immortal Lu in the North of the City is better than physicians for he asks for no fee." Medical lots had five sections: surgery, ophthalmology, g
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  • ...and li; a noble-hearted man retains his high aspirations even in old age", he hit the spittoon with an iron S-shaped Ornamental Object and completely bro
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  • ...n it, saying, "the Master of Rain is the Constellation Bi ( 畢星 Bixing ) ". He means, "when the moon is far away from the Constellation Bi, it rains in to ...ans multitude. Water is extensive in the soil. Thunder shakes ten thousand li, and even reaches the Supreme Mountain ( 太山 Taishan ), and so does the
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