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The Method of Spirit Chess Divination

The Method of Spirit Chess Divination 灵棋卜法

The Method of Spirit Chess Divination, dating to Eastern Jin–Southern Dynasties, appears in three Tang-era Dunhuang fragments (e.g., P3782), predating the later Daozang version. These early manuscripts lack Song additions...

The Method of Spirit Chess Divination 灵棋卜法

The Method of Spirit Chess Divination, dating to Eastern Jin–Southern Dynasties, appears in three Tang-era Dunhuang fragments (e.g., P3782), predating the later Daozang version. These early manuscripts lack Song additions...

The Authentic Classic of the Spirit Chess

The Authentic Classic of the Spirit Chess 灵棋本章正经

The Authentic Classic of the Spirit Chess, likely authored by Eastern Jin monk Fawei, uses 12 tokens marked “Upper, Middle, Lower” to cast 124 Yijing-style oracles. With annotations by Yan...

The Authentic Classic of the Spirit Chess 灵棋本章正经

The Authentic Classic of the Spirit Chess, likely authored by Eastern Jin monk Fawei, uses 12 tokens marked “Upper, Middle, Lower” to cast 124 Yijing-style oracles. With annotations by Yan...

The Back-Pushing Diagrams

The Back-Pushing Diagrams Daoist Classic 推背图

The Back-Pushing Diagrams, traditionally attributed to Tang astrologers Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tian’gang, is a prophetic illustrated manuscript of 60 (or 67) enigmatic images with cryptic verses predicting dynastic rises...

The Back-Pushing Diagrams Daoist Classic 推背图

The Back-Pushing Diagrams, traditionally attributed to Tang astrologers Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tian’gang, is a prophetic illustrated manuscript of 60 (or 67) enigmatic images with cryptic verses predicting dynastic rises...

Complete Works of Master Zhang Sanfeng

Complete Works of Master Zhang Sanfeng 张三丰先生全集

Complete Works of Master Zhang Sanfeng, compiled in Qing dynasty, blends authentic inner alchemy texts like Daoist Essentials with later pseudepigrapha. It teaches dual cultivation of nature and life, merging...

Complete Works of Master Zhang Sanfeng 张三丰先生全集

Complete Works of Master Zhang Sanfeng, compiled in Qing dynasty, blends authentic inner alchemy texts like Daoist Essentials with later pseudepigrapha. It teaches dual cultivation of nature and life, merging...

Essentials of Inner Nature and Life

Essentials of Inner Nature and Life 性命圭旨

Essentials of Inner Nature and Life, anonymously compiled (c. 1615), is a seminal Ming-era Daoist manual blending Buddhist and Daoist teachings. It details nine alchemical stages—from nurturing original essence to...

Essentials of Inner Nature and Life 性命圭旨

Essentials of Inner Nature and Life, anonymously compiled (c. 1615), is a seminal Ming-era Daoist manual blending Buddhist and Daoist teachings. It details nine alchemical stages—from nurturing original essence to...

The Jade Casket and Golden Chest

The Jade Casket and Golden Chest 玉笈金箱

The Jade Casket and Golden Chest, compiled by Qian Jianqi (Ming dynasty), anthologizes ~200 pre-Ming Daoist inner alchemy texts—many absent from the Daozang—including rare works like Caoyizi, Jindan Jue Zhi,...

The Jade Casket and Golden Chest 玉笈金箱

The Jade Casket and Golden Chest, compiled by Qian Jianqi (Ming dynasty), anthologizes ~200 pre-Ming Daoist inner alchemy texts—many absent from the Daozang—including rare works like Caoyizi, Jindan Jue Zhi,...