Archive for July 2021
Daoism Series 40: The Dragon Gate’s Core Methods [Commentary on chapter 3 excerpt]
Daoism Series 40: 龍門心法 The Dragon Gate’s Core Methods [Commentary on chapter 3 excerpt] The following excerpt is from the Commentary by Li Shifu on the third chapter ‘Breaking through Obstructions and Hindrances’ of The Dragon Gate’s Core Methods (Purple Cloud Press forthcoming) by Wang Changyue (?-1680), a very influential Daoist during the Qing Dynasty…
Read MoreThe 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao: Barrier 4
This is the 4th of 49 Barriers from ‘The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao” (available here: https://purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-49-barriers-of-cultivating-the-dao/ ) to be posted online in their entirety. The book also features extensive endnotes as well as hundreds of pages of commentary by Daoist renunciate Li Shifu (abbot of Five Immortals Temple) as well as explanations of…
Read MoreChinese Medicine Series 10: Explanations of Channels and Points Vol.2
Chinese Medicine Series 10: Explanations of Channels and Points Vol.2 The following post is an excerpt from《Explanations of Channels and Points Vol. 2》from the chapter ‘The Foot Shàoyīn Kidney Channel 足少陰腎經’ translated by Michael Brown and edited by Allen Tsaur. Typesetting is in its final stage and the title is already available on pre-sale at…
Read MorePurple Cloud Podcast #30 Tsai Ling-yi and Chen Po-Hsun: Chinese Medicine and Education in Taiwan
In this episode we talk to Tsai Lingyi and Chen Po Hsun, two Taiwanese Chinese medical doctors and academics in the field of Chinese medical history. We discuss how they have simultaneously navigated the Chinese and Western medical worlds, and discuss how the Chinese medicine exists in Taiwan within and outside of the official system.…
Read MoreChinese Medicine Series 09: Complete Compendium of Zhang Jingyue [pt 5]
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 13, ‘Sovereign Fire and Ministerial Fire’ 君火相火論十三 from The Complete Compendium of [Zhang] Jingyue Vol.1-3, ‘Eight Principles, Ten Questions and Mingmen Theory’ translated by Allen Tsaur. The book can be purchased on our website at a reduced rate: https://purplecloudinstitute.com/…/complete-compendium…/ 余向釋内經，於君火以明相火以位之義説固詳矣。而似猶有未盡者，及見東垣云：相火者下焦包絡之火，元氣之賊也。丹溪亦述而證之。予聞此説嘗掩口而笑，而覺其不察之甚也。由此興感因再繹之。 Previously, I have annotated the Nèijīng, so for…
Read MoreThe 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao: Barrier 3
The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao: Barrier 3 This is the 3rd of 49 Barriers from ‘The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao” (available here: https://purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-49-barriers-of-cultivating-the-dao/ ) to be posted online in their entirety. The book also features extensive endnotes as well as hundreds of pages of commentary by Daoist renunciate Li Shifu (abbot…
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