La Grande Encyclopédie du Taoïsme

Locust Expelling Rite Taoist - Cover

Locust-Expelling Rite (驱蝗): The Field Nobody Feeds

Paul Peng

The swarm arrives like a dispatched army. The Qingwei lineage answered with talismans planted in fields, thunder-office generals, and a memorial to the Jade Emperor — a full chain of...

Locust-Expelling Rite (驱蝗): The Field Nobody Feeds

Paul Peng

The swarm arrives like a dispatched army. The Qingwei lineage answered with talismans planted in fields, thunder-office generals, and a memorial to the Jade Emperor — a full chain of...

Shrine Breaking Rite Taoist - Cover

Shrine-Breaking Rite (伐邪破庙): The Ruin Nobody Sp...

Paul Peng

A shrine without a license, a grove of old trees — the rite summoned the city god and nailed four boards to revoke

Shrine-Breaking Rite (伐邪破庙): The Ruin Nobody Sp...

Paul Peng

A shrine without a license, a grove of old trees — the rite summoned the city god and nailed four boards to revoke

Attacking The Sorcerer Taoist - Cover

Attacking the Sorcerer: The Reversal Rite That ...

Paul Peng

Curses, buried gu, a family turned against itself — the rite burned the talisman, memorialized the crimes, and prayed the sorcerer's own work turn back on its source.

Attacking the Sorcerer: The Reversal Rite That ...

Paul Peng

Curses, buried gu, a family turned against itself — the rite burned the talisman, memorialized the crimes, and prayed the sorcerer's own work turn back on its source.

Mole Cricket Averting Taoist - Cover

Mole-Cricket Averting (禳蝼蚁): The Rite That Reco...

Paul Peng

When ants and mound-insects undermined a house or a grave, the Taoist tradition read it as a grievance — and only a formal reconciliation rite could settle the debt.

Mole-Cricket Averting (禳蝼蚁): The Rite That Reco...

Paul Peng

When ants and mound-insects undermined a house or a grave, the Taoist tradition read it as a grievance — and only a formal reconciliation rite could settle the debt.

Well Overflow Averting Taoist - Cover

Well-Overflow Averting (禳井溢法): The Rite Nobody ...

Paul Peng

When a household well began to run over without reason, a Taoist ritualist was called. He pressed the dipper mudra, commanded the dragon-spirit of the well, and burned a talisman...

Well-Overflow Averting (禳井溢法): The Rite Nobody ...

Paul Peng

When a household well began to run over without reason, a Taoist ritualist was called. He pressed the dipper mudra, commanded the dragon-spirit of the well, and burned a talisman...

Seedling Protection Taoist - Cover

Seedling Protection (保苗): The Harvest Nobody Wi...

Paul Peng

The seedling-protection rite (保苗) prays for favorable wind and timely rain before the crop needs saving. Its complete liturgies survive only in the Guangcheng Rites of Mount Qingcheng.

Seedling Protection (保苗): The Harvest Nobody Wi...

Paul Peng

The seedling-protection rite (保苗) prays for favorable wind and timely rain before the crop needs saving. Its complete liturgies survive only in the Guangcheng Rites of Mount Qingcheng.