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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- (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...
- 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...
- 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;...
- Heaven in accordance with the classics. On the other hand, there were the fangshi (方士 "masters of directions"), ritual masters who formulated what would...
- 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...