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Fangshi (Chinese: 方士; pinyin:
fāngshì; lit. 'method master') were
Chinese technical specialists who
flourished from the
third century BCE to the fifth...
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Eight Immortals. Han
Xiangzi (韓湘子), a
flute artist.
Zhang Guolao (張果老), a
fangshi symbol of longevity.
Zhongli Quan (鍾離權), ****ociated with
death and the...
- (Chinese: 東方朔, c. 160 BCE – c. 93 BCE) was a Han
dynasty scholar-official,
fangshi ("master of esoterica"), author, and
court jester to
Emperor Wu (r. 141...
- Masters. The
Shangqing syncretized the
Heavenly Masters with
fangshi. Buddhism,
Fangshi, and
Heavenly Masters were
synchronized in Lingbao. The 180 precepts...
- CE).
Despite common knowledge that
immortality potions could be deadly,
fangshi and
Daoist alchemists continued the elixir-making
practice for two millennia...
- the Wu (shaman) (connected to the "shamanism" of
Southern China) and the
Fangshi (which
probably derived from the "archivist-soothsayers of antiquity, one...
- Sun Bu'er Wang
Chongyang Qiu ****i
Zhang Guoxiang Zhang Sanfeng Zhu Quan
Fangshi Schools Huang–Lao Way of the
Taiping Xuanxue Shangqing School Way of the...
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these texts were most
likely produced by a
class of
literati called the
fangshi.
These were a
class of
nobles who were not part of the
state administration;...
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historically reliable mention of
alchemy in
China concerns Li Shaojun, a
fangshi "masters of methods", who
suggested around 133 BCE that
Emperor Wu of Han...
- O'****van, a werewolf, a vampire,
Finnish folk
legend Väinämöinen, and
Taoist fangshi Zhang Guolao - into
Asgard to kill
Norse thunder god Thor, all for their...
