"transcendence; immortality". Grain avoidance is related to multifaceted Chinese cultural beliefs. For instance, bigu fasting was the common medical...
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Look up bigu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bigu may refer to: Bigu (grain avoidance) Bigu Rural Municipality, Nepal Bigu, Iran This disambiguation...
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Strong-smelling Vegetables'). Additionally, nightshades are avoided. Bigu (grain avoidance) Ch'ang Ming Chinese food therapy Macrobiotic diet Kohn, Livia (1993)...
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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...
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[citation needed] Bigu (grain avoidance) is a fasting technique with various different interpretations, from simply avoiding eating specific grains, to avoiding...
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leeks, and scallions) and grains. The Shenxian zhuan uses this story to illustrate the importance of bigu "grain avoidance": "During the reign of Emperor...
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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...
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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...
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several yangsheng practices, especially taking "immortality" drugs, bigu grain avoidance, and Daoist yogic breathing exercises. Daoist waidan alchemists frequently...
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and abstention from cereals (bigu), and other food proscriptions. According to Daoist classics, when bigu "grain avoidance" techniques were successful...
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an heir apparent. In 1042, Ningming was murdered for practicing Bigu (grain avoidance) with Taoist monk. Yeli Renrong, one of the distant relatives of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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