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The Taixi Sect 胎息派
The Taixi School, focusing on embryonic breathing techniques, aims to revert to a primordial state, enhancing human potential and achieving immortality through internal alchemy.
The Taixi Sect 胎息派
The Taixi School, focusing on embryonic breathing techniques, aims to revert to a primordial state, enhancing human potential and achieving immortality through internal alchemy.
The Waidan Sect 外丹派
The Waidan School focuses on external alchemy—crafting elixirs from minerals and metals to achieve immortality, prominent in early Daoism despite its later decline.
The Waidan Sect 外丹派
The Waidan School focuses on external alchemy—crafting elixirs from minerals and metals to achieve immortality, prominent in early Daoism despite its later decline.
The Neidan Sect 内丹派
The Neidan School focuses on internal alchemy, using body, breath, and mind to refine essence, energy, and spirit—transforming them into the immortal elixir within.
The Neidan Sect 内丹派
The Neidan School focuses on internal alchemy, using body, breath, and mind to refine essence, energy, and spirit—transforming them into the immortal elixir within.
The Sword Immortal Sect 剑仙派
The Sword Immortal tradition, rooted in Daoist lore, blends internal alchemy with martial mysticism, envisioning adepts wielding spirit-blades for combat and flight.
The Sword Immortal Sect 剑仙派
The Sword Immortal tradition, rooted in Daoist lore, blends internal alchemy with martial mysticism, envisioning adepts wielding spirit-blades for combat and flight.
The Thunder Method Sect 雷法派
The Thunder Magic (Leifa) School combines inner alchemy with talismanic rituals, using qi and sacred symbols to command thunder, exorcise spirits, and influence nature.
The Thunder Method Sect 雷法派
The Thunder Magic (Leifa) School combines inner alchemy with talismanic rituals, using qi and sacred symbols to command thunder, exorcise spirits, and influence nature.
The Golden Elixir Sect 金丹派
The Golden Elixir (Jindan) School encompasses both external alchemy (elixirs) and internal alchemy (qi cultivation), forming a major Daoist tradition focused on immortality.
The Golden Elixir Sect 金丹派
The Golden Elixir (Jindan) School encompasses both external alchemy (elixirs) and internal alchemy (qi cultivation), forming a major Daoist tradition focused on immortality.
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The Grand Penitential Liturgy of the Jade Repos...
The Grand Penitential Liturgy of the Jade Repository: Late Tang master Du Guangting's expanded rite for directional confessions to Heavenly Worthies, repenting endless errors, erasing sins, and praying for imperial...
The Grand Penitential Liturgy of the Jade Repos...
The Grand Penitential Liturgy of the Jade Repository: Late Tang master Du Guangting's expanded rite for directional confessions to Heavenly Worthies, repenting endless errors, erasing sins, and praying for imperial...
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What is "fuqi" in Taoism?
Fuqi: Ancient Taoist art of “wearing qi” — breathe with cosmos, transform energy, heal body, calm mind, awaken spirit through rhythmic, mindful respiration.
What is "fuqi" in Taoism?
Fuqi: Ancient Taoist art of “wearing qi” — breathe with cosmos, transform energy, heal body, calm mind, awaken spirit through rhythmic, mindful respiration.
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What Talismans Are Used in Taoist Rituals and C...
Daoist Ritual Symbols: key talismans like banners, door, lamp, and ceremonial charms used in rites to command spirits, heal, and guide souls.
What Talismans Are Used in Taoist Rituals and C...
Daoist Ritual Symbols: key talismans like banners, door, lamp, and ceremonial charms used in rites to command spirits, heal, and guide souls.
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What is the Dao?
Yin-Yang (陰陽) The complementary forces that create harmony in the universe. Light and dark, active and passive, masculine and feminine - all interconnected.
What is the Dao?
Yin-Yang (陰陽) The complementary forces that create harmony in the universe. Light and dark, active and passive, masculine and feminine - all interconnected.
