Notes on Women’s Powers in Popular Taoism

February 17, 2016 by woden13 Leave a comment

Notes on “Women’s Powers in Popular Taoism” by Brian Griffith, The Empty Vessel, Fall 2013

Sun Bu’er  –

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Bu%27er

http://www.earlywomenmasters.net/masters/buer/buer_poems.html

Thomas Cleary says: “Sun Bu-er, whose given name means ‘Peeless,’ was born in 1124 C.E. She had three children and took up single-minded Taoist practice when she was fifty-one years old. This pattern of entering fully into spiritual Immortalism only after attaining maturity and fulfilling the normal requirements of social life was highly approved of in the Complete Reality school, according to which preliminary work could be done while in the ordinary world.”

Poetry of Sun Buer

Inspirational Instructions on Internal Cultivation from Sun Bu-Er

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Huacun

• Saso, Michael. The Gold Pavilion: Taoist Ways to Peace, Healing, and Long-life.North Clarendon: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1995.

Jessica Leo

Jade Maiden

Chen Jinggu

Wusheng Laomu

Chang Rong

Yu Jiang

Yeshe Tsogyal – Gyalwa and Chang- chub, 1999

Despeux and Kohn 2002

 

Queen Mother of the West, the Lady of the Purple Tenuity (Ziwei Furen), and the Lady

of Highest Prime (Shangyuan Furen).  Maoshan Mtn.  Tiantai

Around the year 900, a female priest named Zu Shu had visionary encounters with the Holy Mother of Numinous Radiance (Lingguang Shengmu), and founded a teaching lineage called the Way of Pure Subtlety.

Morning Cloud (Yunxia Pai) lineage, which claimed to originate with He Xiangu, a legendary female member in the Eight Immortals of the Bam- boo Grove.

great female poet Cao Wenyi

 

 

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