Laojun rushan fu老君入山符 "Lord Lao's amulet for entering mountains" from Baopuzi Inner Chapter 17
Baopuzi (simplified Chinese: 抱朴子; traditional Chinese: 抱樸子) is a literary work written by Ge Hong (AD 283–343), (Chinese: 葛洪; Wade–Giles: Ko Hung), a scholar during the turbulent Jin dynasty.
Baopuzi is divided into two main sections, the esoteric Neipian (Chinese: 內篇,; lit. 'Inner Chapters') and the section intended for the public to understand: Waipian (Chinese: 外篇; lit. 'Outer Chapters''). The Taoist Inner Chapters discuss topics such as techniques to achieve "hsien" (Chinese: 仙; lit. 'immortality', 'transcendence'), Chinese alchemy, elixirs, and demonology. The Confucian Outer Chapters discuss Chinese literature, Legalism, politics, and society.
Baopuzi (simplified Chinese: 抱朴子; traditional Chinese: 抱樸子) is a literary work written by Ge Hong (AD 283–343), (Chinese: 葛洪; Wade–Giles: Ko Hung), a...
Eastern Jin dynasty. He was the author of Essays on Chinese Characters, the Baopuzi, the Emergency Formulae at an Elbow's Length, among others. He was the...
the 317 Baopuzi ("[Book of the] Master Who Embraces Simplicity") and the later Shenxian Zhuan ("Traditions of Divine Transcendents"). The Baopuzi description...
and floating goblins" [飛尸流凶]. The "Inner Chapters" of the (c. 320 CE) Baopuzi, written by the Jin Dynasty Daoist scholar Ge Hong, is the earliest source...
meditation on inner deities. The Jin dynasty scholar Ge Hong's (c. 320) Baopuzi "Master who Embraces Simplicity", which is an invaluable source for early...
of the phoenix or the ascension of the dragon. The (c. 320 CE) Daoist Baopuzi by Ge Hong mentions Feilong 飛龍 "flying dragon" and uses it as a graphic...
mysterious powers." For instance, a mirror can reveal and control demons. The Baopuzi (above) says a Daoist practitioner entering the mountains would suspend...
Hong (282-343), the Baopuzi or Master who Embraces Simplicity and the Shenxian Zhuan or Biographies of Divine Transcendents. Two Baopuzi Inner Chapters mention...
alchemist Ge Hong, who wrote a key Taoist work on inner cultivation, the Baopuzi (Master Embracing Simplicity). The Six Dynasties (316–589) era saw the...
Literary Chinese trope for the lifespan of a Daoist xian transcendent. The Baopuzi says Peng Zu lived 800 years and Anqi Sheng lived over 3,000, "but in the...
fettered with ropes it can find its [human] food." Ge Hong's (c. 320) Baopuzi mentions wangliang (魍魎) twice. One context lists the demon among the dangers...
is documented by both historical (for instance, Shiji) and alchemical (Baopuzi) sources. The earliest record of Li Shaojun was contemporaneously written...
"perform a shaman's trance-dance". Ge Hong's (c. 320 CE) Daoist classic Baopuzi contains some of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the Paces...
lift, and the toy flies when released. The 4th-century AD Daoist book Baopuzi by Ge Hong (抱朴子 "Master who Embraces Simplicity") reportedly describes...
the book Master of Preserving Simplicity Inner Writings (抱朴子内篇; pinyin: Baopuzi Neipian), describes Pangu (Werner, E.T.C. Myths and Legends of China (1922))...
indigenous Chinese religions from the imported religion. Ge Hong used it in his Baopuzi as a synonym for Taoism. The Chinese term 神道 (MC zyin dawX) was originally...
them in order for them to be considered efficacious. Ge Hong noted in his Baopuzi that as long as the inscription was authentic, successful use of the talisman...
ascends to heaven and becomes a celestial fox. In Duìsúpiān (對俗篇) of the Baopuzi, it is written: Foxes and dholes both can be eight hundred years of age...
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