Taoism: Pictures and Tables
See also Taoist Alchemy: Pictures
Pictures
Laozi
Pictures of Laozi.
Daode jing
Pictures of the Daode jing (Book of the Way and Its Virtue).
Three Clarities
Pictures of the Three Clarities (Sanqing), the highest Taoist gods.
Taiyi (Great One)
The Taoist god who represents the state of Unity.
Original Breath
An image depicting the Original Breath issued from the Dao.
Yin-Yang and Eight Trigrams
A chart showing Yin and Yang surrounded by the Eight Trigrams (bagua).
Chart of the Great Ultimate (Taiji tu)
This well-known chart depicts the cosmological configurations that intervene between the Dao and the “ten thousand things.”
The Red Child
An image of the true self, visualized in meditation.
Inner Gods
Visualization of the Lords of the thirty-nine gates (hu) of the human body.
The Five Lingbao Talismans
Pictures from one of the main Lingbao scriptures.
Immortals
Early representation of immortals as winged beings walking on clouds.
Tables
The five agents (or five phases, wuxing) and their main correlations.
View this table →The five agents (or five phases, wuxing) and their spatial arrangement.
View this table →The eight trigrams and their main associations.
View this table →The eight trigrams and their spatial arrangement in the precelestial and postcelestial configurations.
View this table →The ten celestial stems and their main associations.
View this table →The twelve earthly branches and their main associations.
View this table →