The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Supreme Canon for Removing the Three Corpses

Supreme Canon for Removing the Three Corpses 太上...

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Supreme Canon for Removing the Three Corpses, likely from late Tang/Five Dynasties (cited 900 CE), details Daoist methods to expel internal parasites ("Three Corpses, Nine Worms") via herbs, talismans, and...

Supreme Canon for Removing the Three Corpses 太上...

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Supreme Canon for Removing the Three Corpses, likely from late Tang/Five Dynasties (cited 900 CE), details Daoist methods to expel internal parasites ("Three Corpses, Nine Worms") via herbs, talismans, and...

Pillow Canon for Longevity

Pillow Canon for Longevity 枕中经

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Pillow Canon for Longevity, likely composed in Northern Song (avoids Emperor Zhenzong’s taboo), is a concise Daoist text in the Daozang. It teaches soul-preserving practices—chanting, inner visualization, teeth-tapping, and saliva...

Pillow Canon for Longevity 枕中经

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Pillow Canon for Longevity, likely composed in Northern Song (avoids Emperor Zhenzong’s taboo), is a concise Daoist text in the Daozang. It teaches soul-preserving practices—chanting, inner visualization, teeth-tapping, and saliva...

Seal and Breath Methods

Seal and Breath Methods Daoist Classic 思印气诀法

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Seal and Breath Methods, likely from Song-Yuan era, details Daoist sealing rituals using breath, mudras, and incantations to control spirits, banish disasters, and protect communities—covering everything from epidemics to floods,...

Seal and Breath Methods Daoist Classic 思印气诀法

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Seal and Breath Methods, likely from Song-Yuan era, details Daoist sealing rituals using breath, mudras, and incantations to control spirits, banish disasters, and protect communities—covering everything from epidemics to floods,...

Supreme Mystic Seal Scripture

Supreme Mystic Seal Scripture 太上通玄灵印经

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Supreme Mystic Seal Scripture, likely from the Tang–Song period, teaches rituals to command the Six Ding and Eight Histories spirits using sacred seals and talismans. It claims these empower users...

Supreme Mystic Seal Scripture 太上通玄灵印经

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Supreme Mystic Seal Scripture, likely from the Tang–Song period, teaches rituals to command the Six Ding and Eight Histories spirits using sacred seals and talismans. It claims these empower users...

Supreme Eight Spirits Numinous Charts

Supreme Eight Spirits Numinous Charts 太上通灵八史圣文真形图

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Supreme Eight Spirits Numinous Charts is a Tang-era Daoist manual invoking the Eight Histories—paired male-female deities of the Bagua. Through ritual purification, name invocation, and sacred talismans, practitioners summon these...

Supreme Eight Spirits Numinous Charts 太上通灵八史圣文真形图

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Supreme Eight Spirits Numinous Charts is a Tang-era Daoist manual invoking the Eight Histories—paired male-female deities of the Bagua. Through ritual purification, name invocation, and sacred talismans, practitioners summon these...

Scripture of the Supreme Origin

Scripture of the Supreme Origin 上元经

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Scripture of the Supreme Origin, likely from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, survives only in a fragmented Dunhuang manuscript (S.4753). Though incomplete, its 18 lines describe rituals for exorcising demons...

Scripture of the Supreme Origin 上元经

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Scripture of the Supreme Origin, likely from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, survives only in a fragmented Dunhuang manuscript (S.4753). Though incomplete, its 18 lines describe rituals for exorcising demons...