The Way of the Celestial Masters or the Heavenly Masters Sect is a Chinese Taoist movement that was founded by Zhang Daoling in 142 AD. Its followers rebelled...
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list of the Celestial Masters, leaders of Zhengyi Dao, continuing Wudoumi Dao (Way of the Five Pecks of Rice). After the death of the 64th Celestial Master...
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Zhengyi Dao (section List of Celestial Masters)
history thereafter. Like the Way of Celestial Masters (Tianshi Dao), the leader of Zhengyi Taoism was known as the Celestial Master. The term Zhengyi (Orthodox...
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The Northern Celestial Masters are an evolution of the Daoist Way of the Celestial Master (simplified Chinese: 天师道; traditional Chinese: 天師道; pinyin:...
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The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Chinese: 五斗米道; pinyin: Wǔ Dǒu Mǐ Dào) or the Way of the Celestial Master, commonly abbreviated to simply The Celestial...
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Zhang Daoling (redirect from Celestial Master Zhang)
the Eastern Han dynasty credited with founding the Way of the Celestial Masters sect of Taoism, which is also known as the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice...
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Daoist schools (section Chronology of major schools)
dào, "Way of the Celestial Masters") Zhengyi Taoism (正一道 Zhèngyī dào, "Way of the Right Oneness") Taiping Taoism (太平道 Tàipíng dào, "Way of the Great Peace")...
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Daozang (redirect from The Taoist Canon)
alchemical texts Orthodox One (Zhengyi) 正一(正乙)部: Based on the Way of the Celestial Masters (Tianshi Dao) tradition. Chinese Wikisource has original text...
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Laozi (redirect from Master Lao)
a god. Belief in the revelation of the Tao from the divine Laozi resulted in the formation of the Way of the Celestial Masters, the first organized religious...
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Taoist temple (category People's Republic of China religious building and structure stubs)
Commons has media related to Taoist temples. Dambana Taoism Way of the Celestial Masters Zhengyi Taoism Quanzhen Taoism Chinese ritual mastery traditions...
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Tao Te Ching (redirect from The Book of the Way and its Virtue)
Classic of the Way and its Power, The Book of the Tao and Its Virtue, The Book of the Way and of Virtue, The Tao and its Characteristics, The Canon of Reason...
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Kou Qianzhi (category Way of the Celestial Masters)
many of the ceremonies and rites of the Way of the Celestial Master form of Taoism and reformulated its theology into a new movement known as The Northern...
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Taoism (redirect from Western appropriations of Taoism)
commentary and the Xiang'er commentary. The first organized form of Taoism was the Way of the Celestial Masters, which developed from the Five Pecks of Rice movement...
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Jade Emperor (redirect from Celestial Emperor)
clouds in the heaven. In some versions, she is the Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Jade Emperor and the Celestial Queen Mother, who weaves the Silver River...
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was founded by Li A. Since several Way of the Li Family practices resembled those of the Way of the Celestial Masters, such as healing with (fu) amulets...
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Zhang Lu (Han dynasty) (category Way of the Celestial Masters)
death one year later. Upon the death of his father, Zhang Heng (张衡), Zhang Lu inherited control of the Celestial Masters religious group, and therefore...
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terms of worldview, the emergence of the Shàngqīng revelations signifies a major expansion of Taoism. Where the celestial masters had added the pure gods...
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I Ching (redirect from The Book Of Changes)
Cheng Yi, patriarch of the Neo-Confucian Cheng–Zhu school, read the I Ching as a guide to moral perfection. He described the text as a way to for ministers...
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Taoist Libationers (category Way of the Celestial Masters)
the primary religious professionals within the Way of the Celestial Masters. They served numerous roles within the early Taoist movement, chiefly of which...
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Baopuzi (category History of chemistry)
religious traditions of Jiangnan just before the Way of the Celestial Masters (Tianshi dao) spread to that area, soon followed by the Shangqing and Lingbao...
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Taoist philosophy (category Commons category link is defined as the pagename)
such as the Way of the Celestial Masters which would later influence Taoist thought. The fourth century saw major developments such as the rise of new spiritual...
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Yin and yang (redirect from Ying and Yang:The truth)
the bottom of the foot without the top). A way to illustrate this idea is[citation needed] to postulate the notion of a race with only women or only men;...
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Yellow Turban Rebellion (redirect from Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace)
Daoling. Much of the Taipingjing's surviving 52 chapters, found in the Daozang, have a direct relationship to the Way of the Celestial Masters with discrepancies...
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Modern Korean Taoist organizations are often heavily inspired by Way of the Celestial Masters beliefs, and sometimes syncretize with shamanistic and other...
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Yuanshi Tianzun (category Investiture of the Gods characters)
Tīanzūn), the Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning or the Primeval Lord of Heaven, is one of the highest deities of Taoism. He is one of the Three...
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This is a list of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, and their Unicode character codes. This list is in King Wen order. (Cf. other hexagram...
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Xiang'er (category Way of the Celestial Masters)
best known for being one of the earliest surviving texts from the Way of the Celestial Master variant of Daoism. The meaning of the title is debated, but...
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Eight Immortals (redirect from The Eight Immortals)
Eight Immortals Cross the Sea (八仙過海; bā xiān guò hǎi). It is about the Immortals on their way to attend the Conference of the Magical Peach (蟠桃會; pán...
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Guan Yu (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
dynasty, the 42nd Celestial Master, Zhang Zhengchang (張正常), recorded the incident in his book Lineage of the Han Celestial Masters (漢天師世家), the first Taoist...
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