The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (527 page)
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Ch'eng-shih
(Chinese school)
:
(Chinese school)
:
NTIKAS
Cheng-yi
(Taoist movement)
:
(Taoist movement)
:
Ch'eng Yi
:
:
Chen jen
(Chin., ‘perfected’ or ‘true man’). A term used by both Buddhists and Taoists in China to denote a person who has achieved the highest religious ideal.
Chenrezi
(bodhisattva)
:
(bodhisattva)
:
VARACh'en T’uan
(10th cent. CE).
Taoist scholar of both outer and inner
alchemy
, who lived on Mount Hua-shan as a hermit. On the face of the rock he carved the diagram of the supreme emptying, (
wu-ch'i-tu
). He is also reputed to have originated the other diagram of great importance to neo-Confucians, the diagram of the immortal heaven (
hsien-t'ien-tu
).
Taoist scholar of both outer and inner
alchemy
, who lived on Mount Hua-shan as a hermit. On the face of the rock he carved the diagram of the supreme emptying, (
wu-ch'i-tu
). He is also reputed to have originated the other diagram of great importance to neo-Confucians, the diagram of the immortal heaven (
hsien-t'ien-tu
).
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