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    Shijie, (simplified Chinese: 尸解; traditional Chinese: 屍解; pinyin: Shijie; Wade–Giles: shih-chieh; lit. 'corpse release') which has numerous translations...
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    Mountain in mythology Peaches of Immortality Xianxia (genre) Sansin Shijie (Taoism), a transformation to a Xian. Yama-no-Kami Rishi Weizza Woodwose Yaoguai...
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  • Precepts of Taoism were outlined in a short text that appears in Dunhuang manuscripts (DH31, 32), the Scripture of the Ten Precepts (Shíjiè jīng 十戒經)....
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  • Kirkland (2008), "shijie", The encyclopedia of Taoism, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7007-1200-7 Eva Wong (1997), The Shambhala Guide to Taoism, Shambahala, p. 54...
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    people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview, which is collectively termed as Chinese folk...
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    mountains to study Daoist techniques. Wang achieved xian transcendence through shijie "liberation by means of a simulated corpse", described with the traditional...
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    immortals: celestial (tiānxiān, 天仙), earthly (dìxiān, 地仙), and corpse-liberated (shījiě xiān, 尸解仙). Engelhardt says, "The foundation of immortality in any form...
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  • Chinese folk religion, highly literary, systematised currents related to Taoism and Confucianism emerged during the Spring and Autumn period. Buddhism began...
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  • astronomy, and science (e.g. Liu Hui, Zu Chongzhi, Shen Kuo, Yang Hui, Zhu Shijie). This tradition receded after the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when neo-Confucianism...
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    Altar (section Taoism)
    (1996). "The Relationships between Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and folk custom". Shijie Zongjiao: 24–32. (Regarding "baibai" as the term for the act...
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    TV series Little Bone: Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea (小戏骨:八仙过海). Liu Shijie (劉世傑) as Lan Caihe The Eight Immortals have always been a very familiar...
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  • also believed to have become a xian (Taoist immortal) through shijie by mainstream Taoism. List of Chinese authors "shu" means the 3rd son of the main...
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  • Shizigang (石子岡, Jiangsu), but his remains supposedly disappeared by means of shijie ("corpse liberation"), which enabled an adept to feign death and assumeng...
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  • religious category alongside the well-established Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Generally these religions focus on the worship of the universal God (Shangdi)...
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    Although the Introduction to Computational Studies (算学启蒙) written by Zhu Shijie (fl. 13th century) in 1299 contained nothing new in Chinese algebra, it...
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  • repeatedly claimed that he had transformed into a xian transcendent" by means of shijie "release as a corpse" and had not truly died. Ge Hong says Daoist transcendents...
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    astronomy, the Big Dipper is also known as the Great Bear constellation, but Taoism venerates it as the Big Dipper Nine Star Gods. These deities govern the...
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    Michael & Chang (1966), p. 173. Wang, Long (2010). Tiān cháoxiàng zuǒ, shìjiè xiàng yòu: Jìndài zhōngxī jiāofēng de shízìlù kǒu 天朝向左,世界向右:近代中西交锋的十字路口...
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    Facsimile of Zhu Shijie's Jade Mirror of Four Unknowns...
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    regarding social class in Chinese society and in relation to state support for Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, education and literature. Wu developed a network...
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  • on Mount Wudang (Hubei), which are two of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism. He finally ascended to Heaven from Mount Pingdu (Pingdu shan 平度山, Sichuan)...
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  • Shenxian Zhuan (category 4th-century Taoism)
    "traditions" for zhuan "biographies" noted above). For instance, he translates shijie 尸解 (lit. "corpse separation") as "escape by means of a simulated corpse"...
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    was later called bingjie 兵解 "escape by execution", an uncommon form of shijie "escape by means of a simulated corpse", and the Baopuzi says, "Zuo Ci performed...
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    Zhengao (category 5th-century Taoism)
    a method for making a magic sword that will provide immortality through shijie (屍解, liberation by means of a simulated corpse). Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted...
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    PLA general Sarah Song, b. 1985, Miss Chinese International 2007 Song Shijie, b. 1873, Chinese revolutionary Song Shi-Lun, b. 1899, PLA general Song...
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    Academia Sinica In office 1957–1962 Preceded by Zhu Jiahua Succeeded by Wang Shijie Personal details Born (1891-12-17)17 December 1891 Shanghai, Qing China...
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    were made by mathematicians during the Yuan era. The mathematician Zhu Shijie (1249–1314) solved simultaneous equations with up to four unknowns using...
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  • Prefecture, Liang Shijie recruits him as his subordinate after Yang Zhi impresses him with his skills in a martial arts contest. Liang Shijie later puts Yang...
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  • is also strongly influenced by indigenous sources such as the notion of Shijie Datong or "Great Unity". It has tended to be less popular among more recent...
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    copper, which is part of his magic kit. Gongsun Sheng learns that Liang Shijie, the prefect of Daming, is sending valuables to his father-in-law Grand...
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