The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Sun Zhenren Health Regimen

Sun Zhenren Health Regimen 孙真人摄养论

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Sun Zhenren Health Regimen: A Tang-era Daoist manual by Sun Simiao aligning monthly diet, conduct, and rituals with organ energetics—e.g., reduce salt in January, avoid frozen foods, and observe auspicious...

Sun Zhenren Health Regimen 孙真人摄养论

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Sun Zhenren Health Regimen: A Tang-era Daoist manual by Sun Simiao aligning monthly diet, conduct, and rituals with organ energetics—e.g., reduce salt in January, avoid frozen foods, and observe auspicious...

Pengzu on Life Cultivation

Pengzu on Life Cultivation 彭祖摄生养性论

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Pengzu on Life Cultivation: An anonymous Six Dynasties/early Tang Daoist text in the Daozang advocating moderation in all acts—“neither too much nor too little”—to protect spirit qi, ensuring harmony of...

Pengzu on Life Cultivation 彭祖摄生养性论

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Pengzu on Life Cultivation: An anonymous Six Dynasties/early Tang Daoist text in the Daozang advocating moderation in all acts—“neither too much nor too little”—to protect spirit qi, ensuring harmony of...

Baopuzi Classic of Health Cultivation

Baopuzi Classic of Health Cultivation 抱朴子养生论

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Baopuzi Classic of Health Cultivation: Attributed to Jin’s Ge Hong, this Daozang text likens body care to statecraft—urging restraint of desire, elimination of “six harms,” practice of “twelve fews,” and...

Baopuzi Classic of Health Cultivation 抱朴子养生论

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Baopuzi Classic of Health Cultivation: Attributed to Jin’s Ge Hong, this Daozang text likens body care to statecraft—urging restraint of desire, elimination of “six harms,” practice of “twelve fews,” and...

Longevity and Wellbeing Manual

Longevity and Wellbeing Manual 养性延命录

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Longevity and Wellbeing Manual: Tao Hongjing’s 6th-century Daoist classic in two scrolls compiles ancient teachings on ethical conduct, diet, breathwork, massage, and sexual cultivation—structured as three moral precepts and three...

Longevity and Wellbeing Manual 养性延命录

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Longevity and Wellbeing Manual: Tao Hongjing’s 6th-century Daoist classic in two scrolls compiles ancient teachings on ethical conduct, diet, breathwork, massage, and sexual cultivation—structured as three moral precepts and three...

Daoist Life Preservation Manual

Daoist Life Preservation Manual 太清道林摄生论

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Daoist Life Preservation Manual: A 1-scroll Wei-Jin text in six parts (last four extant), covering diet, hygiene, breathwork, massage, and living habits for health. Influenced Tao Hongjing’s Yangsheng Yiming Lu;...

Daoist Life Preservation Manual 太清道林摄生论

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Daoist Life Preservation Manual: A 1-scroll Wei-Jin text in six parts (last four extant), covering diet, hygiene, breathwork, massage, and living habits for health. Influenced Tao Hongjing’s Yangsheng Yiming Lu;...

Secret Surgical Formulas of the Immortals

Secret Surgical Formulas of the Immortals 仙传外科秘方

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Secret Surgical Formulas of the Immortals: Compiled by Ming Daoist Zhao Yizhen (1378), this 11-scroll text preserves Yang Qingsou’s 400+ surgical remedies for boils, ulcers, and trauma—blending folk wisdom with...

Secret Surgical Formulas of the Immortals 仙传外科秘方

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Secret Surgical Formulas of the Immortals: Compiled by Ming Daoist Zhao Yizhen (1378), this 11-scroll text preserves Yang Qingsou’s 400+ surgical remedies for boils, ulcers, and trauma—blending folk wisdom with...