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This is a collection of wiki pages dealing with Chinese esoteric systems.
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Concepts
- Ba gua - the Eight Changes, the building blocks of all motions.
- Five Elements - the building blocks of matter.
- I Ching - the Book of Changes, China's divination system.
- Shaolin - the Buddhist temple from which kung fu came.
- Taoism - the religion and philosophy founded by good ol' Lao Tzu.
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Characters
- Eight Immortals - the spiritual heavyweights of China.
- Huxian - Seductive, immortal fox spirits.
- Kuan Yin - the bodhisattva of compassion.
- Stone Monkey -- the mischievous hero of a Buddhist myth cycle.
- Zhulong - Zhu=pig, Long=dragon. The Chinese Ouroboros.
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External Links
- The Taoist Culture and Information Center in Hong Kong has a nice collection of folk tales & motifs (http://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/daoism&human-civilization/daoism-literature&art/pg5-2-5-23.asp). Often, these are told in a mysterious sort of way (lost in translation?), but it's a great starting point for looking up different myths and stories.
- Here's a good, brief introduction to Chinese ritual jade artifacts (http://www.jadeguy.com/ritualjade.html) - the bi disk, cong (or tsung), and the kuei, chang, hu and huang found in Zhou dynasty burials.
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