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Qiu Chuji
Qiu Chuji (10 February 1148– 22 August 1227), courtesy name Tongmi (通密), also known by his Taoist name Master Changchun, was a renowned Taoist master from late Southern Song/Jin dynasty and a famous disciple of Wang Chongyang, the founder of Quanzhen School. He is known for being invited by Genghis Khan to a personal meeting near the Hindu Kush, who also respected and honored him as an Immortal.
Qiu is one of the Seven Perfected of the North. He is the founder of the Longmen (Dragon Gate) school of Quanzhen Taoism which already at his time became the most widespread school of Taoism, so prominent that it became synonymous with the phrase "the Dragon Gate covers half the realm", and it is still the case nowadays.
On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month in 1148 (the eighth year of the Huangtong era of the Jin dynasty), Qiu Chuji was born in Bindu village, Qixia county, Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. Orphaned of both parents from an early age, he endured the hardships of the human world, being fed and clothed from the charity of many families. From childhood, he yearned to cultivate immortality.
As a youth, he took refuge on Gongshan Mountain north of his village, living a life of “wearing pine blossoms on his head, eating pine nuts, and drinking pine breeze with the moon over the pine stream.”
In 1167 he began studying Daoism. In the following year, hearing that Wang Chongyang was teaching at the Quanzhen Hut in Ninghai Prefecture, Qiu Chuji went there and became his disciple.
Between 1168 and 1170, Qiu Chuji accompanied Wang Chongyang in spreading the teachings across Shandong and Henan. Here societies were enstabilished such as the Seven Treasures Society, the Golden Lotus Society, and the Three Lights Society, so as to lay a foundation for the Quanzhen Taoism.
In 1169, Wang Chongyang journeyed westward with four disciples: Ma Danyang, Qiu Chuji, Tan Chuduan and Liu Chuxuan. In the winter of this year, they arrived in Bianliang, Henan, and fixed their residence in an inn run by a porcelain dealer surnamed Wang. On the 4th day of the first lunar month in the next year, Wang Chongyang passed away and ascended to Heaven. In his will he instructed: “Chuji’s studies shall be entrusted to Danyang.” Thereafter, under the tutelage of Ma Danyang, Qiu Chuji’s knowledge and Daoist cultivation advanced rapidly.
Immediately after burying their master temporarily in Meng Zongxian's garden, Ma, Tan, Liu and Qiu went to Zhongnan county, Shaanxi, to pay a formal visit to Wang Chongyang's fellow Daoists and earlier disciples. In 1172, they reinterred Chongyang in Liujiang village, Zhongnan county, and then dwelled in huts beside the grave for some years.
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Qiu Chuji
Qiu Chuji (10 February 1148– 22 August 1227), courtesy name Tongmi (通密), also known by his Taoist name Master Changchun, was a renowned Taoist master from late Southern Song/Jin dynasty and a famous disciple of Wang Chongyang, the founder of Quanzhen School. He is known for being invited by Genghis Khan to a personal meeting near the Hindu Kush, who also respected and honored him as an Immortal.
Qiu is one of the Seven Perfected of the North. He is the founder of the Longmen (Dragon Gate) school of Quanzhen Taoism which already at his time became the most widespread school of Taoism, so prominent that it became synonymous with the phrase "the Dragon Gate covers half the realm", and it is still the case nowadays.
On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month in 1148 (the eighth year of the Huangtong era of the Jin dynasty), Qiu Chuji was born in Bindu village, Qixia county, Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. Orphaned of both parents from an early age, he endured the hardships of the human world, being fed and clothed from the charity of many families. From childhood, he yearned to cultivate immortality.
As a youth, he took refuge on Gongshan Mountain north of his village, living a life of “wearing pine blossoms on his head, eating pine nuts, and drinking pine breeze with the moon over the pine stream.”
In 1167 he began studying Daoism. In the following year, hearing that Wang Chongyang was teaching at the Quanzhen Hut in Ninghai Prefecture, Qiu Chuji went there and became his disciple.
Between 1168 and 1170, Qiu Chuji accompanied Wang Chongyang in spreading the teachings across Shandong and Henan. Here societies were enstabilished such as the Seven Treasures Society, the Golden Lotus Society, and the Three Lights Society, so as to lay a foundation for the Quanzhen Taoism.
In 1169, Wang Chongyang journeyed westward with four disciples: Ma Danyang, Qiu Chuji, Tan Chuduan and Liu Chuxuan. In the winter of this year, they arrived in Bianliang, Henan, and fixed their residence in an inn run by a porcelain dealer surnamed Wang. On the 4th day of the first lunar month in the next year, Wang Chongyang passed away and ascended to Heaven. In his will he instructed: “Chuji’s studies shall be entrusted to Danyang.” Thereafter, under the tutelage of Ma Danyang, Qiu Chuji’s knowledge and Daoist cultivation advanced rapidly.
Immediately after burying their master temporarily in Meng Zongxian's garden, Ma, Tan, Liu and Qiu went to Zhongnan county, Shaanxi, to pay a formal visit to Wang Chongyang's fellow Daoists and earlier disciples. In 1172, they reinterred Chongyang in Liujiang village, Zhongnan county, and then dwelled in huts beside the grave for some years.
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