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Immortals, Quanzhen, and Travel
Daoist immortal songs, Quanzhen poetry, and travel records connected to Daoist masters and lineages.
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Texts
Patriarch Qiu's Letter to the Daoist Friends of Xizhou — Qiu Zu Ji Xizhou Daoyou ShuA short letter of spiritual exhortation attributed to the Quanzhen patriarch Qiu Chuji (1148–1227), encouraging discouraged fellow Daoists toward sustained practice — with its complete Daozang source text.Poems of the Living DeadThirty poems composed from inside a self-dug tomb by the founder of Quanzhen Daoism — each ending with the word 'dust.' First English translation.Praises and Songs of the ImmortalsDaoist liturgical anthology from the Zhengtong Daozang (DZ0613): morning, noon, and evening praises to the Heaven-Worthy Who Saves from Suffering; a sequence of bu xu ci (Walking-in-Void Songs) from the Shangqing tradition including Lady Taizhen's poem to Ma Mingsheng and Lady Youying's celestial letters to Yang Xi; an encomium of the hermit Wu Zilai; the Hymn of the Numinous Sound; and works by the Lady of the Southern Peak. First English translation.The Bequeathed Instructions of Patriarch Qiu — Qiuzu Chuixun WenA morality text attributed to Qiu Chuji, patriarch of the Longmen lineage of Quanzhen Daoism, warning his disciples against laxity and setting out the Three Vehicles of practice — with its complete Daozang source text.The Fortunate Meeting of the Mysterious Wind — Xuanfeng Qinghui LuA 1232 Yuan-dynasty record, compiled by the statesman Yelü Chucai, of the Daoist master Qiu Chuji's 1222 audience with Genghis Khan on the Way of long life — with its complete Daozang source text.The Recorded Sayings of Patriarch Changchun — Changchun Zushi YuluThe teaching sayings of Qiu Chuji, founder of the Longmen lineage of Complete Perfection Daoism, together with the Xuanfeng Qinghui Lu record of his audience with Genghis Khan — with its complete Daozang source text.Travels of an Alchemist — The Chinggis Khan AccountThe journey of the Daoist master Qiu Chuji (Changchun, 1148–1227) from Shandong across Mongolia and Central Asia to the camp of Chinggis Khan in the Hindu Kush, 1220–1223, recorded by his disciple Li Zhichang. Contains the three audiences on the Way, the master's poems of the road, and the only firsthand Chinese account of the Mongol empire at its height.