. International studio. d Chang not only important for the earliest presentment Tao-ling,whogaveafurtherimpetustodemonology three twelve JULY 1922 and set the seal on the greater humiliation of itsdogmas by means ol the strange and fantastic. Chang Tao-Iing, when in close retreat, pro-fessed to have compounded lor himself the elixirof longevity and renewed his own youth. lie be-came a high priest or bonze of the ciilt; declaringhis supremacy over all spirits and was actuallycredited with the easy destruction of millions ofdemons. On hisdeath he left hisoccult books andcharms to his de- dhism,
. International studio. d Chang not only important for the earliest presentment Tao-ling,whogaveafurtherimpetustodemonology three twelve JULY 1922 and set the seal on the greater humiliation of itsdogmas by means ol the strange and fantastic. Chang Tao-Iing, when in close retreat, pro-fessed to have compounded lor himself the elixirof longevity and renewed his own youth. lie be-came a high priest or bonze of the ciilt; declaringhis supremacy over all spirits and was actuallycredited with the easy destruction of millions ofdemons. On hisdeath he left hisoccult books andcharms to his de- dhism, the priests and disciples of the I aoi :1 cultwere more active than befori ! er tion of temples and monasti mi th i ualistii ei the ancestral worship having been previouslylargelj offered at the shrines in the palaces oihomes ol the Chinese. Then naturalh foliothe senous development of the symboli<deified figures with their attributes for tin richmi nt of thesetemple interiors andcourtyards. Grealgods, lesser divini-. THE TAOISTIMMORTALLU TUNG-PIN scendants; one ofwhom is now thehigh priest of Taoismand dwells on themountain of Lung-hu in Kiang-si. Eventoday he is supposedto be animated bythe spirit of his longdeparted ancestor. In 67 A. D. twoIndian priests at therequest of the em-peror Ming-ti arrivedat his court and the official approvalwas placed on Buddhas tenets. The
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