The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Bei Yin Jiao 北阴醮 — The Zitin Ritual for Breaking Through Extreme Adversity

Bei Yin Jiao 北阴醮 — The Zitin Ritual for Breakin...

Paul Peng

Bei Yin Jiao 北阴醮 is a Zhengyi ritual of the Zitin tradition, performed when all paths are blocked — deep calamity, demonic disturbance, career stagnation, unresolved injustice. Three ceremonies, the...

Bei Yin Jiao 北阴醮 — The Zitin Ritual for Breakin...

Paul Peng

Bei Yin Jiao 北阴醮 is a Zhengyi ritual of the Zitin tradition, performed when all paths are blocked — deep calamity, demonic disturbance, career stagnation, unresolved injustice. Three ceremonies, the...

Ping An Jiao 平安醮 — The Zhengyi Ritual for Communal Peace and Protection

Ping An Jiao 平安醮 — The Zhengyi Ritual for Commu...

Paul Peng

Ping An Jiao 平安醮 is a Zhengyi Taoist ritual performed to invoke peace and protection for a community, household, or individual — one of the most widely practiced jiao ceremonies...

Ping An Jiao 平安醮 — The Zhengyi Ritual for Commu...

Paul Peng

Ping An Jiao 平安醮 is a Zhengyi Taoist ritual performed to invoke peace and protection for a community, household, or individual — one of the most widely practiced jiao ceremonies...

Wu Zhao Jiao 五朝醮 — The Five-Session Taoist Ritual for the Dead

Wu Zhao Jiao 五朝醮 — The Five-Session Taoist Ritu...

Paul Peng

Wu Zhao Jiao 五朝醮 is a multi-session Zhengyi ritual spanning five liturgical sessions, combining scripture recitation, lamp-lighting rites, and offerings to spirit officials — one of the most elaborate funerary...

Wu Zhao Jiao 五朝醮 — The Five-Session Taoist Ritu...

Paul Peng

Wu Zhao Jiao 五朝醮 is a multi-session Zhengyi ritual spanning five liturgical sessions, combining scripture recitation, lamp-lighting rites, and offerings to spirit officials — one of the most elaborate funerary...

Zun Shan Zhai 遵善斋 — The Taoist Retreat at the Start of Winter

Zun Shan Zhai 遵善斋 — The Taoist Retreat Observed...

Paul Peng

Zun Shan Zhai 遵善斋 is a Taoist purification retreat observed at the beginning of winter, rooted in the Zhengyi tradition of seasonal ritual practice and the classical principle of aligning...

Zun Shan Zhai 遵善斋 — The Taoist Retreat Observed...

Paul Peng

Zun Shan Zhai 遵善斋 is a Taoist purification retreat observed at the beginning of winter, rooted in the Zhengyi tradition of seasonal ritual practice and the classical principle of aligning...

Zhou Tian Da Jiao — The Complete Heavenly Taoist Ritual

Zhou Tian Da Jiao 周天大醮 — The Complete Heavenly ...

Paul Peng

Zhou Tian Da Jiao 周天大醮 is the grandest Taoist ritual ceremony, invoking all heavenly deities across the full celestial cycle. Reserved for emperors and high officials in imperial China, it...

Zhou Tian Da Jiao 周天大醮 — The Complete Heavenly ...

Paul Peng

Zhou Tian Da Jiao 周天大醮 is the grandest Taoist ritual ceremony, invoking all heavenly deities across the full celestial cycle. Reserved for emperors and high officials in imperial China, it...

Wang Sheng Jiao 往生醐 — ritual elements of the Taoist Rite of Guided Rebirth

Wang Sheng Jiao 往生醮: The Taoist Rite of Guided ...

Paul Peng

Wang Sheng Jiao 往生醮 is a Taoist funerary offering rite in which the Ten-Direction Celestial Venerables guide the deceased to rebirth according to their own wishes and intentions.

Wang Sheng Jiao 往生醮: The Taoist Rite of Guided ...

Paul Peng

Wang Sheng Jiao 往生醮 is a Taoist funerary offering rite in which the Ten-Direction Celestial Venerables guide the deceased to rebirth according to their own wishes and intentions.