• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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. Ruzang Chinese Wikisource has original...
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    正一嗣教眞人 zhèng yī sìjiào zhēnrén. List of Celestial Masters Way of the Five Pecks of Rice Way of the Celestial Masters Zhengyi Dao 瞿海源 (30 April 1992)....
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Tao (redirect from Do (Way))
    speaks of the 'Way of Heaven'. The early Confucian philosopher Xunzi explicitly noted this contrast. Though he acknowledged the existence and celestial importance...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Where the celestial masters had added the pure gods of the Tao to the popular pantheon, Shàngqīng enlarged this to include an entirely new layer of existence...
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    cannot be the bottom of the foot without the top). A way to illustrate this idea is to postulate the notion of a race with only women or only men; this...
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  • Survey of Pre-Qin Philosophy in China. Silkroad Press. ISBN 9781623200701. Lim Xiao Wei, Grace (2005). Law and Morality in the Han Fei Zi (Masters thesis)...
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  • various followers of The Way of the Celestial Master coalesced to form a distinct form of Taoism known as the Southern Celestial Masters, who lasted as a...
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  • jun 天寶君 "Lord of Celestial Treasure", Lingbao jun 靈寶君 "Lord of Numinous Treasure", and Shenbao jun 神寶君 "Lord of Divine Treasure" are the Sanyuan 三元 "Three...
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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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    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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  • 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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