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Our Books

By Purple Cloud Admin / 7th November 2018 / Comments Off on Our Books

Published Works The Arts of Daoism The Arts of Daoism presents a set of key lectures on some of the major arts and practices of Daoism by a contemporary Daoist priest and master, Li Shifu, the Abbot of Five Immortals Temple in the Wu dang mountains in China. These are supported by generous excerpts from classic…

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BORKED – Who we are

By Purple Cloud Admin / 25th October 2018 / Comments Off on BORKED – Who we are

Who We Are At the Purple Cloud Institute we are dedicated to furthering the knowledge and study of traditional Chinese medicine and culture throughout the world FOUNDER -Purple Cloud Institute Daniel Spigelman Member of AACMA Registered with AHPRA Secretary of IASTAM (International Associatiation for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine) Australasia Bachelor Degree from Beijing…

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The Archaeology of the Qiao Vessels: Ban Xia Tang Formula Family Analysis

By Purple Cloud Institute / 30th April 2021 /

The Archaeology of the Qiao Vessels: Ban Xia Tang Formula Family Analysis The following is an excerpt from Will Ceurvels’ forthcoming ‘The Archaeology of the Qiao Vessels’ by Purple Cloud Press. This passage is taken from the “Ban Xia Tang Formula Family Analysis” section. It is an in-depth look at the Qiao vessels of the…

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The Duke of Zhou’s Interpretation of Dreams [excerpt1]

By Purple Cloud Institute / 21st February 2021 /

周公解夢 The Duke of Zhou’s Interpretation of Dreams The following is an excerpt of the forthcoming translation of the ‘Duke of Zhou’s Interpretation of Dreams’ by Nikita Bushin, published by Purple Cloud Press by June this year. This book is a famous reference for dream interpretations in China to date. It is based on the…

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The Yin and Yang Qiao Vessels in Chinese Medicine and Daoism by Will Ceurvels

By Purple Cloud Institute / 16th January 2021 /

The Yin and Yang Qiao Vessels in Chinese Medicine and Daoism The following is a guest posts for Purple Cloud Institute by Will Ceurvels, a Chinese medicine scholar-practitioner living in Taiwan and currently undertaking his masters in Qing Dynasty Jing Fang Materia Medica research, including physicians such as Zou Run‘an [鄒潤安], Zhang Zhicong [張志聰], and…

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白马山 White Horse Mountain #1 [Excerpt 1]

By Purple Cloud Admin / 6th October 2019 /

白马山 White Horse Mountain #1 [excerpt 1] _________________________________________________ Legend has it that after the True Warrior Ancestral Founding Master [真武] left his home and family, he roamed in the four places with the wish to find a treasured ground, ideal for cultivation. One day, when the road traversed the Yellow Dragon Beach, he saw in…

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