The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Taiyi Yanming Taoist - Cover

Taiyi Yanming (太乙炎明五雷法): The Blazing Light Nobo...

Paul Peng

Taiyi Yanming channels the Supreme One's pure-yang authority as visible light and heat — the most yang-saturated current in the Taoist cosmos. Here is what the classical record actually says.

Taiyi Yanming (太乙炎明五雷法): The Blazing Light Nobo...

Paul Peng

Taiyi Yanming channels the Supreme One's pure-yang authority as visible light and heat — the most yang-saturated current in the Taoist cosmos. Here is what the classical record actually says.

Qian Fu Fa Han Zhou Taoist - Cover

Qian Fu Fa Han Zhou (遣符发汗咒): The Sweating Talis...

Paul Peng

In Taoist thunder rites, a completed talisman is made to sweat as proof of successful empowerment. This article examines the classical procedure, its textual basis, and what determines whether the...

Qian Fu Fa Han Zhou (遣符发汗咒): The Sweating Talis...

Paul Peng

In Taoist thunder rites, a completed talisman is made to sweat as proof of successful empowerment. This article examines the classical procedure, its textual basis, and what determines whether the...

Qu Dian Huo Taoist - Cover

Qu Dian Huo (取电火): Taking Lightning Fire

Paul Peng

Qu Dian Huo is the Taoist rite of capturing lightning fire — the pure yang essence of lightning itself — for use in talisman consecration and ritual purification. This article...

Qu Dian Huo (取电火): Taking Lightning Fire

Paul Peng

Qu Dian Huo is the Taoist rite of capturing lightning fire — the pure yang essence of lightning itself — for use in talisman consecration and ritual purification. This article...

Rite Against The Rat Prodigy Taoist - Cover

Rite Against the Rat Prodigy (禳鼠怪法): The Gnaw N...

Paul Peng

Rats that behaved like envoys, not vermin, were a prodigy — the rite wrote with northern breath and posted one talisman on a northward pole to answer the gnaw at...

Rite Against the Rat Prodigy (禳鼠怪法): The Gnaw N...

Paul Peng

Rats that behaved like envoys, not vermin, were a prodigy — the rite wrote with northern breath and posted one talisman on a northward pole to answer the gnaw at...

Rite Against Snake Prodigy Taoist - Cover

Rite Against Snake Prodigy (禳蛇怪法): The Strike N...

Paul Peng

Seeing a snake was bad luck before it was a bite — the rite made the witness squat, sprayed water, and buried one talisman under the earth shrine.

Rite Against Snake Prodigy (禳蛇怪法): The Strike N...

Paul Peng

Seeing a snake was bad luck before it was a bite — the rite made the witness squat, sprayed water, and buried one talisman under the earth shrine.

Self Shut Door Rite Taoist - Cover

Self-Shut Door Rite (禳门户自闭法): The Door Nobody O...

Paul Peng

A door that closed by itself was a prodigy at the gate. This rite faces north, writes talismans in the northern breath, and seals the moving door at both addresses.

Self-Shut Door Rite (禳门户自闭法): The Door Nobody O...

Paul Peng

A door that closed by itself was a prodigy at the gate. This rite faces north, writes talismans in the northern breath, and seals the moving door at both addresses.