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46: 1105:). She would come and go, ascending and descending. People saw her for some two hundred years yet she always looked about twenty. When she was able to get purple grass she sold it to dyers and gave the proceeds to widows and orphans. It was like this for generations. Thousands came to make offerings at her shrine. 623:
refer to events after Liu Xiang's death in 8 or 6 BCE. Eastern Han historical books dating from the early 2nd century CE cite a version (or versions) of the hagiography. Internal evidence shows that some sections of the text were added in the 2nd century, and later editing occurred. The hagiography
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in the very last years of his life. Although his authorship is disputed and the text is dated later than the 1st century BCE, "recent scholars have argued cogently" for the traditional attribution. He concludes that the ascription to Liu Xiang is "not wholly incredible, but the text we have today
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on its mouth just below the upper lip, and gave it a decoction of sweet herbs to swallow, which caused it to recover. Afterwards, whenever the dragon was ailing, it issued from its watery lair and presented itself for treatment. One morning the dragon took Huang on its back and bore him
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is the only early source referring to an individual transcendent. The collection does not offer anything resembling a full biography, but only a few informative anecdotes about each person. The briefest entries have fewer than 200 characters.
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depiction of transcendents' lives represents knowledge from general Han culture rather than a specific religious community. In subsequent generations, his hagiography became widely known as a source for
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exists in many, sometimes dissimilar, versions. For instance, the original text likely contained 72 hagiographies, yet the standard version has 70, and others have 71. The c. 1029 Daoist encyclopedia
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flew down and approached him with drooping ears and open jaws. Huang said to himself: "This dragon is ill and knows that I can effect a cure." Thereupon he performed
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alchemy, indicating that the collected stories are reliable because he could not have invented them. Internal evidence suggests that Liu compiled the
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citations preserved in these and other old sources shows that some portions of the original text have been lost from all surviving versions.
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The difficulty of translating this title is demonstrated by Campany's three versions. Note the modern shift to translating
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Cao Y., Wang Y., Jin H., Wang A., Liu M., and Li X. (1996), "Anti-inflammatory effects of alcoholic extract of roots of
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Third, like the above "decoction of sweet herbs" and "roots of rubus", about half the transcendents described in the
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as having extraordinary "longevity" or "long life" but not eternal "immortality" as understood in Western religions.
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Wu, Lu-Ch'iang and Davis, Tenney L. (1934). "Ko Hung (Pao P'u Tzu), Chinese Alchemist of the Fourth Century",
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had powers that ultimately came from drugs. For instance, after Master Redpine took a drug called
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From a higher perspective, the question of Liu Xiang's authorship "is irrelevant", because the
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does list many works written and compiled by Liu Xiang, including two with similar titles:
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is regarded as dubious, and modern scholars generally believe it was compiled during the
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arranges its Daoist hagiographies in roughly chronological order, starting with the
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Le Lie-sien tchouan: Biographies légendaires des immortels taoïstes de l'antiquité
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To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth: Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents
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using their transcendental powers to support the poor and helpless. Chang Rong (
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was because no teacher had transmitted the necessary oral explanations to him.
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was transmitted in diverse manuscript copies for ten centuries, until the
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Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China
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There are no full English translations of the text analogous to the
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Since Liu Xiang was an orthodox Confucianist and not a Daoist, his
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to Liu Xiang occurred relatively early, and it was accepted by the
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Researchers have found evidence of anti-inflammatory effects from
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Chang Rong was a follower of the Dao from Mount Chang (Changshan
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contains later accretions and has also dropped some passages".
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Two sample hagiographies illustrate some common themes in the
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Alchemy, Medicine and Religion in the China of A.D. 320: The
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in a context explaining the reason Liu failed to produce an
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Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China
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entries,. and Campany's annotated translation of the
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who allegedly lived over 800 years), famous Daoists (
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biographies is not tainted by Liu Xiang's failure in
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the Guardian of the Pass), and historical figures (
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Routledge. pp. 653–654. 370:, "transmit; pass along; hand down; spread") 1178:critical edition and annotated translation 1315:Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques 294:became a model for later authors, such as 127: 44: 924:who was Rain Master for the culture hero 755:among educated Chinese of later periods. 1890: 1851: 1595: 1364:Biographies of Exemplary Immortals". In 1988: 1977:China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 1866: 1835: 1816: 1795: 1775: 1735: 1727: 1654: 1642: 1538: 1435: 1428: 1668:Zizhi Tongjian, Warring States and Qin 852:, 1436-1450"). Several other Ming and 624:contains some phrases dating from the 602:, Biographies of Exemplary Women) and 328:, "rank; array; order; line up; list") 278:, was traditionally attributed to the 31: 1955: 1942: 1929: 1917: 1902: 1878: 1762: 1583: 1454: 499:Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents 304:("Biographies of Divine Immortals"). 7: 2004: 1783: 1526: 1479: 1332:Pas, Julian; Leung, Man Kam (1998). 866:, "corrected; rectified") versions. 440:There is no standard translation of 1553:Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion 880:biographies, including the popular 830:The earliest extant version of the 538:The traditional attribution of the 494:Arrayed Traditions of Transcendents 1703:. University of California Press. 484:Biographies of Exemplary Immortals 25: 1498:Science and Civilisation in China 872:is also the title of a different 774:incorporated a standard edition. 504:Biography of the Immortal Deities 454:Biographies of the Many Immortals 391:term meaning " biographies". The 459:Biographies of Illustrious Genii 425:format, for example, the Daoist 1397:. Translated by Ware, James R. 1334:Historical Dictionary of Taoism 649:describes how Liu redacted his 421:. Many later texts adopted the 228: 207: 186: 1699:Bokenkamp, Stephen R. (1997). 1296:A Gallery of Chinese Immortals 1249:University of California Press 474:Arrayed Lives of Transcendents 449:A Gallery of Chinese Immortals 417:Records of the Grand Historian 282:editor and imperial librarian 163: 149: 98: 76: 1: 1417:Journal of Chemical Education 1266:Campany, Robert Ford (2009). 1241:Campany, Robert Ford (2002). 1212:Campany, Robert Ford (1996). 896:The present Daoist canonical 876:(1206-1368) collection of 55 619:Second, some sections of the 387:, lit. "arrayed lives") is a 27:Biography of Taoist immortals 675:, he revised and extracted ( 657:using the private method of 479:Biographies of the Immortals 437:(Memoirs of Eminent Monks). 18:Biographies of the Immortals 1551:Eskildsen, Stephen (1998). 1274:University of Hawai'i Press 1247:. contribution by Hong Ge. 819:extensively quote from the 792:includes 48 hagiographies. 612:, Biographies of Exemplary 406:, which was established by 2110: 1624:"Biographies of Immortals" 1504:Cambridge University Press 1370:The Encyclopedia of Taoism 1096:) and ate roots of rubus ( 1072:(Korean raspberry) roots: 908:Employing the traditional 444:, and renderings include: 251:, sometimes translated as 118:Biographies of Exemplary 1620: 1614:Theobald, Ulrich (2010), 1466:Chan, Wing-Tsit. (1963). 1360: 1355:Penny, Benjamin (2008). " 1313:Kohn, Livia, ed. (1989). 1126: 1101: 1092: 1078: 1058: 1028:) was a legendary equine 1017: 996: 940: 862: 844: 762:is not the original. 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Index

Biographies of the Immortals

Chisongzi
Ming dynasty
Daoist Canon
Traditional Chinese



Simplified Chinese



Immortals
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)
extant
hagiography
Daoist
xian
Western Han dynasty
Liu Xiang
Eastern Han

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