"transcendence; immortality". Grain avoidance is related to multifaceted Chinese cultural beliefs. For instance, bigu fasting was the common medical...

Look up bigu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bigu may refer to: Bigu (grain avoidance) Bigu Rural Municipality, Nepal Bigu, Iran This disambiguation...

Strong-smelling Vegetables'). Additionally, nightshades are avoided. Bigu (grain avoidance) Ch'ang Ming Chinese food therapy Macrobiotic diet Kohn, Livia (1993)...

to avoid growing old. The Book of Jin says the emperor practiced bigu "grain avoidance" and consumed alchemical elixirs, but was poisoned from an overdose...

[citation needed] Bigu (grain avoidance) is a fasting technique with various different interpretations, from simply avoiding eating specific grains, to avoiding...

leeks, and scallions) and grains. The Shenxian zhuan uses this story to illustrate the importance of bigu "grain avoidance": "During the reign of Emperor...

Daoist practices such as shijie (liberation from the corpse) and bigu (grain avoidance). For instance, the 648 Book of Jin records that the Buddhist monk...

that Li A lived in a cave and practiced Daoist xian techniques of bigu "grain avoidance" fasting to achieve xian transcendence; it adds information about...

several yangsheng practices, especially taking "immortality" drugs, bigu grain avoidance, and Daoist yogic breathing exercises. Daoist waidan alchemists frequently...

and abstention from cereals (bigu), and other food proscriptions. According to Daoist classics, when bigu "grain avoidance" techniques were successful...

an heir apparent. In 1042, Ningming was murdered for practicing Bigu (grain avoidance) with Taoist monk. Yeli Renrong, one of the distant relatives of...

refuge no matter how good one looks." (Bhai Gurdas Ji, Vaar 7) The bigu (辟谷 "avoiding grains") fasting practice originated as a Daoist technique for becoming...

is the avoidance of grains (bigu). In certain cases, practices like vegetarianism and true fasting is also adopted (which may also be termed bigu). Some...

furnace/stove) and gudao (穀道, the Way of [avoiding] grains, aka bigu 辟穀, Daoist grain avoidance) as methods to attain longevity/immortality. Li does...

According to Ko Hung, the hsien-immortals who can achieve the complete avoidance of death rarely come from the social groups of worthies, emperors, or...