Dragon Gate School
The Dragon Gate Taoism ( Chinese 龍門派 / 龙门派 , Pinyin Longmen pai , english The Dragon Gate Sect ) is a school of Quanzhen - Taoism , one of the four major schools of Daoism . It was founded by Qiu Chuji ( 丘處機 / 丘处机 ), who is also known under the name Changchunzi 長春 子 or Changchun 長春. It is named after the Longmen Grotto ( 龍 門洞 / 龙 门洞 , English Dragon Gate Cave ) in Long County in the Chinese province of Shaanxi .
One of her most important texts is the secret of the golden flower ( 太 一 金華 宗旨 / 太 一 金华 宗旨 , Taiyi jinhua zongzhi , English The Secret of the Golden Flower ), a work ascribed to Lü Dongbin .
literature
- Thomas Cleary : The Secret of the Golden Flower. The classic meditation manual of Taoism. Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937392-80-6 .
- Richard Wilhelm , CG Jung : The secret of the golden blossom. Dornverlag, Munich 1929.
- Mokusen Miyuki (Ed.): The Experience of the Golden Bloom. The classic work on the secret of the golden blossom. The basic text of Taoist meditation from China in the 12th century. License issue. OW Barth Verlag, Bern et al. 1984, ISBN 3-502-62466-6 .
- Chen Kaiguo, Zheng Shunchao: The Master of the Dragon Gate . Secret Practices of Daoism in Modern China. Translated from the Chinese original and edited by Thomas Cleary. Transferred from the American by Wolfgang Höhn. Ansata, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7787-7167-1 .
See also
- Eight immortals
- Baiyun Guan (White Cloud Temple)
- Qiu Chuji
- The secret of the golden blossom