The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Cheng Fu Zhai 成福斋 — The Taoist Retreat Observed on the First Day of the Tenth Month

Cheng Fu Zhai 成福斋 — The Taoist Retreat Observed...

Paul Peng

Cheng Fu Zhai 成福斋 is a Taoist purification retreat observed on the first day of the tenth lunar month — the same date as the traditional Cold Clothes Festival —...

Cheng Fu Zhai 成福斋 — The Taoist Retreat Observed...

Paul Peng

Cheng Fu Zhai 成福斋 is a Taoist purification retreat observed on the first day of the tenth lunar month — the same date as the traditional Cold Clothes Festival —...

Bai Fu Zhai 百福斋 — The Taoist Retreat of a Hundred Blessings, Observed on the La Day

Bai Fu Zhai 百福斋 — The Taoist Retreat of a Hundr...

Paul Peng

Bai Fu Zhai 百福斋 is a Taoist purification retreat observed on the La Day of the twelfth lunar month — later fixed as the eighth day, coinciding with the Laba...

Bai Fu Zhai 百福斋 — The Taoist Retreat of a Hundr...

Paul Peng

Bai Fu Zhai 百福斋 is a Taoist purification retreat observed on the La Day of the twelfth lunar month — later fixed as the eighth day, coinciding with the Laba...

Wu Lian Zhai 五炼斋 — The Taoist Retreat of Fivefold Refinement and Soul Deliverance

Wu Lian Zhai 五炼斋 — The Taoist Retreat of Fivefo...

Paul Peng

Wu Lian Zhai 五炼斋 is a Taoist purification retreat of fivefold refinement, documented in the Yunji Qiqian and the Zhengtong Daozang. Oriented toward the 炼化 (refinement) of body and soul,...

Wu Lian Zhai 五炼斋 — The Taoist Retreat of Fivefo...

Paul Peng

Wu Lian Zhai 五炼斋 is a Taoist purification retreat of fivefold refinement, documented in the Yunji Qiqian and the Zhengtong Daozang. Oriented toward the 炼化 (refinement) of body and soul,...

Hou Wang La 侯王腊 — The Fifth Taoist La Day and the Year’s Final Sacred Threshold

Hou Wang La 侯王腊 — The Fifth Taoist La Day and t...

Paul Peng

Hou Wang La 侯王腊 is the fifth of the Five Taoist La Days, observed on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day practitioners set pure offerings,...

Hou Wang La 侯王腊 — The Fifth Taoist La Day and t...

Paul Peng

Hou Wang La 侯王腊 is the fifth of the Five Taoist La Days, observed on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day practitioners set pure offerings,...

Ji Du Zhai 济度斋 — The Taoist Retreat of Salvation and Universal Deliverance

Ji Du Zhai 济度斋 — The Taoist Retreat of Salvatio...

Paul Peng

Ji Du Zhai 济度斋 is one of the two supreme categories of Taoist purification retreat, oriented toward the salvation of all beings rather than personal cultivation alone — documented in...

Ji Du Zhai 济度斋 — The Taoist Retreat of Salvatio...

Paul Peng

Ji Du Zhai 济度斋 is one of the two supreme categories of Taoist purification retreat, oriented toward the salvation of all beings rather than personal cultivation alone — documented in...

Dong Yuan Zhai 洞渊斋 — The Taoist Retreat for Expelling Plague and Evil

Dong Yuan Zhai 洞渊斋 — The Taoist Retreat for Exp...

Paul Peng

Dong Yuan Zhai 洞渊斋 is a Taoist purification retreat presided over by the Northern Emperor, specifically designed to expel epidemic disease and sweep away malevolent forces — one of the...

Dong Yuan Zhai 洞渊斋 — The Taoist Retreat for Exp...

Paul Peng

Dong Yuan Zhai 洞渊斋 is a Taoist purification retreat presided over by the Northern Emperor, specifically designed to expel epidemic disease and sweep away malevolent forces — one of the...