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    Baopuzi (simplified Chinese: 抱朴子; traditional Chinese: 抱樸子) is a literary work written by Ge Hong (AD 283–343), (Chinese: 葛洪; Wade–Giles: Ko Hung), a...
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  • (283–343 CE) immortalized pu in his pen name Baopuzi "Master who Embraces Simplicity" and eponymous book Baopuzi. Pu can be written with either of the variant...
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    Eastern Jin dynasty. He was the author of Essays on Chinese Characters, the Baopuzi, the Emergency Formulae at an Elbow's Length, among others. He was the...
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    and floating goblins" [飛尸流凶]. The "Inner Chapters" of the (c. 320 CE) Baopuzi, written by the Jin Dynasty Daoist scholar Ge Hong, is the earliest source...
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  • Li A (section Baopuzi)
    the 317 Baopuzi ("[Book of the] Master Who Embraces Simplicity") and the later Shenxian Zhuan ("Traditions of Divine Transcendents"). The Baopuzi description...
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    meditation on inner deities. The Jin dynasty scholar Ge Hong's (c. 320) Baopuzi "Master who Embraces Simplicity", which is an invaluable source for early...
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    Baopuzi also lists another book titled Riyue chushi jing (日月廚食經, Scripture of the Kitchen Meals of the Sun and the Moon). Three of the seven Baopuzi elixirs...
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  • mysterious powers." For instance, a mirror can reveal and control demons. The Baopuzi (above) says a Daoist practitioner entering the mountains would suspend...
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    says xiúzhī (苬芝) is a copyist's error for junzhi (菌芝, "mushrooms", see Baopuzi below), which is another synonym of lingzhi. The 121 CE Shuowen jiezi (Plant...
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    Fenshen (section Baopuzi)
    Hong (282-343), the Baopuzi or Master who Embraces Simplicity and the Shenxian Zhuan or Biographies of Divine Transcendents. Two Baopuzi Inner Chapters mention...
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