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The Numinous Treasure Golden Register Longevity Audience

The Numinous Treasure Golden Register Longevity...

The Numinous Treasure Golden Register Longevity Audience: Early Ming Daoist three-session daily rite on imperial birthdays, invoking blessings for the emperor's eternal health, peaceful realm, and abundant harvests.

The Numinous Treasure Golden Register Longevity...

The Numinous Treasure Golden Register Longevity Audience: Early Ming Daoist three-session daily rite on imperial birthdays, invoking blessings for the emperor's eternal health, peaceful realm, and abundant harvests.

The Jade Register Hungry Ghosts Offering

The Jade Register Hungry Ghosts Offering 玉箓济幽判斛仪

The Jade Register Hungry Ghosts Offering: Post-Song Daoist rite imitating Buddhist Flame Mouth, feeding and liberating hungry ghosts through invocations, purification, precepts, food transformation, and send-off ceremonies.

The Jade Register Hungry Ghosts Offering 玉箓济幽判斛仪

The Jade Register Hungry Ghosts Offering: Post-Song Daoist rite imitating Buddhist Flame Mouth, feeding and liberating hungry ghosts through invocations, purification, precepts, food transformation, and send-off ceremonies.

The Jade Register Three-Day Ninefold Audience

The Jade Register Three-Day Ninefold Audience 玉...

The Jade Register Three-Day Ninefold Audience: Medieval Daoist manual for three-day imperial retreats with nine daily audiences honoring divine beings, repenting, and praying for soul salvation, imperial longevity, and universal...

The Jade Register Three-Day Ninefold Audience 玉...

The Jade Register Three-Day Ninefold Audience: Medieval Daoist manual for three-day imperial retreats with nine daily audiences honoring divine beings, repenting, and praying for soul salvation, imperial longevity, and universal...

The Jade Register Scriptural Concluding Rite

The Jade Register Scriptural Concluding Rite 玉箓...

The Jade Register Scriptural Concluding Rite: Ming-era Daoist ceremony concluding Jade Register retreats with thrice-daily recitation of the Nine Heavens Life-Giving Jade Chapter, guiding souls toward celestial ascent through invocations...

The Jade Register Scriptural Concluding Rite 玉箓...

The Jade Register Scriptural Concluding Rite: Ming-era Daoist ceremony concluding Jade Register retreats with thrice-daily recitation of the Nine Heavens Life-Giving Jade Chapter, guiding souls toward celestial ascent through invocations...

The Jade Register Scriptural Requiem

The Jade Register Scriptural Requiem 玉箓生神资度转经仪

The Jade Register Scriptural Requiem: Medieval Daoist rite reciting the Nine Heavens Life-Giving Jade Chapter thrice daily during imperial retreats to invoke patriarchs and guide departed souls toward divine rebirth.

The Jade Register Scriptural Requiem 玉箓生神资度转经仪

The Jade Register Scriptural Requiem: Medieval Daoist rite reciting the Nine Heavens Life-Giving Jade Chapter thrice daily during imperial retreats to invoke patriarchs and guide departed souls toward divine rebirth.

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem 玉箓资度三朝仪

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem: Medieval Daoist daily rites (morning, noon, evening) during Jade Register retreats, invoking deities for deceased souls' blessings, national welfare, with invocations, confessions, vows, and...

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem 玉箓资度三朝仪

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem: Medieval Daoist daily rites (morning, noon, evening) during Jade Register retreats, invoking deities for deceased souls' blessings, national welfare, with invocations, confessions, vows, and...

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  • What is "fuqi" in Taoism?

    What is "fuqi" in Taoism?

    Fuqi: Ancient Taoist art of “wearing qi” — breathe with cosmos, transform energy, heal body, calm mind, awaken spirit through rhythmic, mindful respiration.

    What is "fuqi" in Taoism?

    Fuqi: Ancient Taoist art of “wearing qi” — breathe with cosmos, transform energy, heal body, calm mind, awaken spirit through rhythmic, mindful respiration.

  • What Talismans Are Used in Taoist Rituals and Ceremonies?

    What Talismans Are Used in Taoist Rituals and C...

    Daoist Ritual Symbols: key talismans like banners, door, lamp, and ceremonial charms used in rites to command spirits, heal, and guide souls.

    What Talismans Are Used in Taoist Rituals and C...

    Daoist Ritual Symbols: key talismans like banners, door, lamp, and ceremonial charms used in rites to command spirits, heal, and guide souls.

  • What is the Dao?

    What is the Dao?

    Yin-Yang (陰陽) The complementary forces that create harmony in the universe. Light and dark, active and passive, masculine and feminine - all interconnected.

    What is the Dao?

    Yin-Yang (陰陽) The complementary forces that create harmony in the universe. Light and dark, active and passive, masculine and feminine - all interconnected.

  • Figures of Taoism: Yu Wenyong 宇文邕

    Figures of Taoism: Yu Wenyong 宇文邕

    Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (543–578), named Yuwen Yong, was a Daoist-leaning ruler who abolished Buddhism twice, viewing it as the root of turmoil since the Eastern Han. He advocated...

    Figures of Taoism: Yu Wenyong 宇文邕

    Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (543–578), named Yuwen Yong, was a Daoist-leaning ruler who abolished Buddhism twice, viewing it as the root of turmoil since the Eastern Han. He advocated...

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