The Cai Qiyun 蔡栖云

The Cai Qiyun 蔡栖云

Paul Peng
Cai Qiyun was a native of Linxiang (present-day Changsha City, Hunan Province) in the Yuan Dynasty.

He was fond of reading and proficient in Taoist arts. He traveled extensively to famous mountains and once studied under Venerable Master Liu from Wudang Mountain, who taught him the Scriptures of the Mysterious Grotto (a classic text of Taoist doctrine and rituals).

Cai Qiyun traced the lineage of the transmission of these teachings, painted portraits of each successive revered master (going up to Yushu Qingling Jun, a celestial deity in Taoist cosmology), and compiled all this into a volume titled Preface to the Genealogical Chart of the Mysterious Grotto Scripture Sect. After this preface, he also included accounts by previous generations that detailed the origin and development of the Taoist arts, as well as the essential contents of the transmitted scriptures.
Paul Peng — Zhengyi Taoist Priest, Longhu Mountain

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Paul Peng

Paul Peng is a Zhengyi Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi — the ancestral home of the Celestial Masters' tradition. Ordained at 25 after a dream from the Celestial Master, he has practiced for 25 years under Master Zeng Guangliang. He is one of the curators of this store, which is officially authorized by Tianshi Fu. All items are consecrated at the temple by the resident priest team.

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