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The Seven Lineages of Quanzhen Dao 全真教七派
Quanzhen Dao has seven major branches: Longmen, Suishan, Nanwu, Yuxian, Kushan, Huashan, and Qingjing. Longmen is the most influential. Other minor sects emerged in Ming-Qing, totaling 86 recorded lineages.
The Seven Lineages of Quanzhen Dao 全真教七派
Quanzhen Dao has seven major branches: Longmen, Suishan, Nanwu, Yuxian, Kushan, Huashan, and Qingjing. Longmen is the most influential. Other minor sects emerged in Ming-Qing, totaling 86 recorded lineages.
What is Quanzhen School 全真教?
Founded in Jin Dynasty by Wang Chongyang, Quanzhen Dao integrated Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, focused on inner alchemy, and merged multiple sects, becoming a major school of Taoism.
What is Quanzhen School 全真教?
Founded in Jin Dynasty by Wang Chongyang, Quanzhen Dao integrated Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, focused on inner alchemy, and merged multiple sects, becoming a major school of Taoism.
What is Qingwei School 清微派?
Qingwei Sect, a Song-era talismanic school, claimed origins in Yuanshi Tianzun’s Qingwei Heaven, merged four lineages, focused on thunder rites, and emphasized inner alchemy as the basis for invoking spirits.
What is Qingwei School 清微派?
Qingwei Sect, a Song-era talismanic school, claimed origins in Yuanshi Tianzun’s Qingwei Heaven, merged four lineages, focused on thunder rites, and emphasized inner alchemy as the basis for invoking spirits.
What is Louguan Sect 楼观派?
Founded Wei-Jin, Louguan Dao thrived 5-9th c. at Zhongnan’s Louguan Terrace; blended Shangqing, Lingbao rites, backed Northern Wei & Tang emperors, merged into Quanzhen by Yuan.
What is Louguan Sect 楼观派?
Founded Wei-Jin, Louguan Dao thrived 5-9th c. at Zhongnan’s Louguan Terrace; blended Shangqing, Lingbao rites, backed Northern Wei & Tang emperors, merged into Quanzhen by Yuan.
What is Longmen School 龙门派?
Qiu Chuji’s 13th-c. Longmen branch fused Quanzhen inner alchemy with southern ritual, Ming-Qing masters refined manuals, and by late Qing merged Zhengyi liturgy into Jiangnan practice.
What is Longmen School 龙门派?
Qiu Chuji’s 13th-c. Longmen branch fused Quanzhen inner alchemy with southern ritual, Ming-Qing masters refined manuals, and by late Qing merged Zhengyi liturgy into Jiangnan practice.
What is Dragon-Tiger School 龙虎宗?
Eastern-Jin Lingbao sect venerated Yuanshi Tianzun, blended Tianshi talismans with Shangqing meditation, emphasized communal liturgy and salvation for all, later absorbed into Zhengyi Dao.
What is Dragon-Tiger School 龙虎宗?
Eastern-Jin Lingbao sect venerated Yuanshi Tianzun, blended Tianshi talismans with Shangqing meditation, emphasized communal liturgy and salvation for all, later absorbed into Zhengyi Dao.
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Figures of Taoism: Yu Wenyong 宇文邕
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