Heming in Dayi County, Sichuan Province, and to spread the message for the Wudoumi Dao movement. From the surviving chapters of the larger version of the book, we know that Taiping Jing deals with the Yin and Yang, the Five Powers (the Five Forces, or elements: metal, wood, fire, water, and earth), immortality, and the so-called sexagenary cycle (a cyclical system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles: the 10 Heavenly Stems and the 12 Earthly Branches).ĭuring the Eastern Han (CE 25-220) Dynasty, Zhang Daoling received the Magical Writ of the Orthodox and Arcane Register of the Orthodox One Covenant and joined the Orthodox Oneness School (popularly called Wudoumi Dao, or "Way of Five Pecks of Rice"**), and continued to study Dao on Mt. Of the other version, which consisted of 170 chapters originally, only 57 chapters survive, and no evidence of the author exists, though the book is believed to also have been written by Gan Zhengke. One version consisted of 12 chapters, though no content has survived, and was written, according to official records, by a certain Gan Zhengke, who lived during the reign (BCE 33-7) of Emperor Cheng (Chengdi) of the Western Han (BCE 206-9) Dynasty. In BCE 150, circa, the book, Taiping Jing (The Book of Supreme Peace) appeared.
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