Huashu, the Glossary
The Huashu, or The Book of Transformations, is a 930 CE Daoist classic about neidan "internal alchemy", psychological subjectivity, and spiritual transformation.[1]
Table of Contents
93 relations: Alexander Wylie (missionary), Automatic writing, Bianhua, Bigu (grain avoidance), Butterfly effect, Cambridge University Press, Cantong qi, Chen Tuan, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Chinese numerology, Chinese surname, Chu (state), Classical conditioning, Compound (linguistics), Confucianism, Courtesy name, Dalai Lama, Daozang, Fazang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Francis Crick, Fuji (planchette writing), Fujian, Gazetteer, Giambattista della Porta, Grand chancellor (China), Guozijian, Heavenly Stems, Henan, History of science and technology in China, Huayan, Hubei, I Ching, Imperial examination, Indra's net, Inedia, Ivan Pavlov, Jiangxi, John Locke, Joseph Needham, Kagyu, Li Bian, Li Jing (Southern Tang), Li Yu (Southern Tang), Lu You, Marian Green, Min (Ten Kingdoms), Mirror image, Mount Heng (Hunan), ... Expand index (43 more) »
Alexander Wylie (missionary)
Alexander Wylie (Traditional Chinese: 偉烈亞力, Simplified Chinese: 伟烈亚力) (6 April 181510 February 1887), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China.
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Automatic writing
Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing.
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Bianhua
Bianhua, meaning 'transformation' or 'metamorphosis', was a keyword developed in both Daoism and Chinese Buddhism. Huashu and Bianhua are Taoist philosophy.
Bigu (grain avoidance)
Bigu is a Daoist fasting technique associated with achieving xian "transcendence; immortality".
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Butterfly effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cantong qi
The Cantong qi is deemed to be the earliest book on alchemy in China. Huashu and Cantong qi are Taoist texts.
Chen Tuan
Chen Tuan 陳摶 (died August 25, 989) was a Chinese Taoist credited with creation of the kung fu system Liuhebafa ("Six Harmonies and Eight Methods").
Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Chinese numerology
Some numbers are believed by some to be auspicious or lucky (吉利) or inauspicious or unlucky (不吉) based on the Chinese word that the number sounds similar to.
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Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia.
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Chu (state)
Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.
Classical conditioning
Classical conditioning (also respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye, a potential rival) is paired with a neutral stimulus (e.g. the sound of a musical triangle).
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Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
Courtesy name
A courtesy name, also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name.
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama is a title given by Altan Khan in 1578 AD at Yanghua Monastery to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Daozang
The Daozang is a large canon of Taoist writings, consisting of around 1,400 texts that were seen as continuing traditions first embodied by the Daodejing, Zhuangzi, and Liezi. Huashu and Daozang are Taoist texts.
Fazang
Fazang (643–712) was a Chinese Buddhist scholar, translator, and religious leader of the Tang dynasty.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979.
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Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist.
Fuji (planchette writing)
Fuji is a Chinese automatic writing method that uses a suspended sieve or tray called a planchette to guide a stick writing Chinese characters, either in sand or the ashes of incense.
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Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
Gazetteer
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.
Giambattista della Porta
Giambattista della Porta (1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Counter-Reformation.
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Grand chancellor (China)
The grand chancellor (among other titles), also translated as counselor-in-chief, chancellor, chief councillor, chief minister, imperial chancellor, lieutenant chancellor and prime minister, was the highest-ranking executive official in the imperial Chinese government.
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Guozijian
The Guozijian,Yuan, 194.
Heavenly Stems
The ten Heavenly Stems (or Celestial Stems) are a system of ordinals indigenous to China and used throughout East Asia, first attested during the Shang dynasty as the names of the ten days of the week.
Henan
Henan is an inland province of China.
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History of science and technology in China
Ancient Chinese scientists and engineers made significant scientific innovations, findings and technological advances across various scientific disciplines including the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, military technology, mathematics, geology and astronomy.
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Huayan
The Huayan school of Buddhism (Wade–Giles: Hua-Yen, "Flower Garland," from the Sanskrit "Avataṃsaka") is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907).
Hubei
Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.
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I Ching
The I Ching or Yijing, usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Huashu and i Ching are philosophy books.
Imperial examination
The imperial examination was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.
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Indra's net
Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit Indrajāla, Chinese: 因陀羅網) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Śūnyatā (emptiness), pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination),.
Inedia
Inedia (Latin for 'fasting') or breatharianism is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water.
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов,; 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.
Jiangxi
Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China.
John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Joseph Needham
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China.
Kagyu
The Kagyu school, also transliterated as Kagyü, or Kagyud, which translates to "Oral Lineage" or "Whispered Transmission" school, is one of the main schools (chos lugs) of Tibetan (or Himalayan) Buddhism.
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Li Bian
Li Bian (7 January 889 – 30 March 943), courtesy name Zhenglun, known as Xu Gao between 937 and 939 and Xu Zhigao before 937, and possibly Li Pengnu during his childhood, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Southern Tang, was the founder and first emperor of the Chinese Southern Tang dynasty.
Li Jing (Southern Tang)
Li Jing (李璟, later changed to 李景; 916Old History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 134. – August 12, 961Xu Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 2.Academia Sinica.), originally Xu Jingtong (徐景通), briefly Xu Jing (徐璟) in 937–939, courtesy name Boyu (伯玉), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Yuanzong of Southern Tang (南唐元宗), also known in historiography as the Middle Lord of Southern Tang (南唐中主), was the second and penultimate monarch of China's Southern Tang dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Li Yu (Southern Tang)
Li Yu (937 – 15 August 978), before 961 known as Li Congjia (李從嘉), also known as Li Houzhu (李後主; literally "Last Ruler Li" or "Last Lord Li") or Last Lord of Southern Tang (南唐後主), was the third rulerUnlike his father and grandfather, Li Yu never ruled as an emperor.
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Lu You
Lu You (1125–1210) was a Chinese historian and poet of the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋).
Marian Green
Marian Green (born 1944) is a British author who has published about magic, witchcraft and the "Western Mysteries" since the early 1960s.
Min (Ten Kingdoms)
Min was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms in existence between the years of 909 and 945.
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Mirror image
A mirror image (in a plane mirror) is a reflected duplication of an object that appears almost identical, but is reversed in the direction perpendicular to the mirror surface.
Mount Heng (Hunan)
Hengshan, also known as Mount Heng, is a mountain in southcentral China's Hunan Province known as the southern mountain of the Five Great Mountains of China.
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Mount Jiuhua
Mount Jiuhua located in Chizhou, Anhui Province in China is an important Buddhist site and natural scenic spot.
Mount Lu
Mount Lu or Lushan (Gan: Lu-san) is a mountain situated in Jiujiang, China.
Mount Qingcheng
Mount Qingcheng is a sacred Taoist mountain in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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Mount Song
Mount Song ("lofty mountain") is an isolated mountain range in north central China's Henan Province, along the southern bank of the Yellow River.
Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
Neidan
Neidan, or internal alchemy, is an array of esoteric doctrines and physical, mental, and spiritual practices that Taoist initiates use to prolong life and create an immortal spiritual body that would survive after death. Huashu and Neidan are Taoist philosophy.
Neo-Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism (often shortened to lǐxué 理學, literally "School of Principle") is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, which originated with Han Yu (768–824) and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties under the formulations of Zhu Xi (1130–1200).
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Optical illusion
In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that arguably appears to differ from reality.
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Philosophy of perception
The philosophy of perception is concerned with the nature of perceptual experience and the status of perceptual data, in particular how they relate to beliefs about, or knowledge of, the world.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
Primary–secondary quality distinction
The primary–secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality.
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Protoscience
In the philosophy of science, protoscience is a research field that has the characteristics of an undeveloped science that may ultimately develop into an established science.
Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).
Qi
In the Sinosphere, qi is traditionally believed to be a vital force part of all living entities.
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Quanzhou
Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China.
Relativism
Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are relative to the perspective of an observer or the context in which they are assessed.
Sacred Mountains of China
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into several groups.
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Science and Civilisation in China
Science and Civilisation in China (1954–present) is an ongoing series of books about the history of science and technology in China published by Cambridge University Press.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.
Shangqing School
The Shangqing School (Chinese:上清), also known as Supreme Clarity, Highest Clarity, or Supreme Purity, is a Daoist movement that began during the aristocracy of the Western Jin dynasty.
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Shen (Chinese religion)
Shen is a Chinese word with senses of deity, god or spirit. Huashu and Shen (Chinese religion) are Taoist philosophy.
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Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
Song dynasty
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
Southern Tang
Southern Tang was a dynastic state of China that existed during Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Spiritual transformation
Spiritual transformation involves a fundamental change in a person's sacred or spiritual life.
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Subjective idealism
Subjective idealism, or empirical idealism or immaterialism, is a form of philosophical monism that holds that only minds and mental contents exist.
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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
Taoism
Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
The Astonishing Hypothesis
The Astonishing Hypothesis is a 1994 book by scientist Francis Crick about consciousness.
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Three Treasures (traditional Chinese medicine)
The Three Treasures or Three Jewels are theoretical cornerstones in traditional Chinese medicine and practices such as neidan, qigong, and tai chi. Huashu and Three Treasures (traditional Chinese medicine) are Taoist philosophy.
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Tummo
In Tibetan Buddhism, tummo (caṇḍālī) is the fierce goddess of heat and passion.
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Victor H. Mair
Victor Henry Mair (born March 25, 1943) is an American area studies scholar.
Way of the Celestial Masters
The Way of the Celestial Masters or the Heavenly Masters Sect is a Chinese Taoist movement that was founded by Zhang Daoling in 142 AD.
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Wenlin Software for learning Chinese
Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese is a software application designed by Tom Bishop, who is also president of the Wenlin Institute.
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Wu (shaman)
Wu is a Chinese term translating to "shaman" or "sorcerer", originally the practitioners of Chinese shamanism or "Wuism" (巫教 wū jiào).
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was Empress of China from 660 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right.
Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)
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Xian (Taoism)
A xian is any manner of immortal, mythical being within the Taoist pantheon or Chinese folklore.
Yang Wu
Wu (吳), also referred to as Huainan (淮南), Hongnong (弘農), Southern Wu (南吳), or Yang Wu (楊吳), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Zhang Daoling
Zhang Ling (traditionally 22 February 34–10 October 156), courtesy name Fuhan, was a Chinese religious leader who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty credited with founding the Way of the Celestial Masters sect of Taoism, which is also known as the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice, and he is credited as being the founder of Taoism in legend.
Zhengyi Dao
Zhengyi Dao, also known as the Way of Orthodox Unity, Teaching of the Orthodox Unity, and Branch of the Orthodox Unity is a Chinese Taoist movement that traditionally refers to the same Taoist lineage as the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice and Way of the Celestial Masters, but in the period of the Tang dynasty and its history thereafter.
Zhuangzi (book)
The Zhuangzi (historically romanized) is an ancient Chinese text that is one of the two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching. Huashu and Zhuangzi (book) are philosophy books and Taoist texts.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huashu
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