Medical Bamboo Slips

By Purple Cloud Institute | 18th June 2024 |

Medical Bamboo Slips Medical bamboo slips (yaoqian 药籤) can be seen in temples all throughout Asia. After checking whether the day is auspicious or not, of the slips is picked at random and the number is recorded. This number can be used to either check one’s fortune in a nearby book, or will be used…

Read More

Shamans, Physicians, and Wenwu in the Huainanzi’ (Excerpt) by Justin Penoyer

By Purple Cloud Institute | 11th June 2024 |

A De-Virtue-Potency by Justin Penoyer (from forthcoming essay ‘Shamans, Physicians, and Wenwu in the Huainanzi’ in Legacy of Chinese Shamanism: The Wu and their Successors from Purple Cloud Press) The second category is total resonance. The Huainanzi asserts that love, the most potent form of empathetic resonance, transcends categorical distinctions (HNZ 10 ). It teaches…

Read More

On Death in Fengshui

By Purple Cloud Institute | 10th June 2024 |

On Death in Fengshui Student: When a dead person ascends after forty-nine days, does that mean that the qi comes from the physical corpse? Li Shifu(Five Immortals Temple): After forty-nine days the field of that person is gone. It is accumulated and slowly disperses. When you die in your room, but it is not a…

Read More