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Regardless of its origins, Chow, a disciple of Daode Tianzun, whose mount is a white dragon, [6] [5] reportedly received the dragon king's enlightenmenment in the 1980s. [2] He subsequently took on the name Bak Lung-won (literally "the white dragon king") [ 7 ] and was thereafter regarded as a living saint .
Seta Sōjirō from Rurouni Kenshin [5] can use shukuji. Various characters in Negima!: Magister Negi Magi employ such techniques. In the manga and anime Prince of Tennis the shukuchi method is used by players of the Higa Middle School from Okinawa to give the illusion of moving from the baseline of a tennis court to the net in a split second.
The Azure Dragon of the East represents Wood, the Vermilion Bird of the South represents Fire, the White Tiger of the West represents Metal, and the Black Tortoise (or Black Warrior) of the North represents Water. In this system, the fifth principle Earth is represented by the Yellow Dragon of the Center. [8]
A similar story of white and red dragons fighting is found in the medieval romance Lludd and Llefelys, although in this case the dragons are not used to symbolize Britons or Saxons. The battle between the two dragons is the second plague to strike the Island of Britain, as the White Dragon would strive to overcome the Red Dragon, making the Red ...
Gaianism's philosophy stems from James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that organisms interact with their surroundings on Earth to form a more complex and self-regulating system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. [3] Gaia can be understood as a superorganism made of organisms, as multicellular life ...
Dragon vein (a.k.a. dragon's line/track, 龍脈/龍脉) Geoglyph – Motif produced on the ground; observable only from a height; Geomancy – Method of divination that interprets markings on the ground; Huaca – Pre-Columbian South American spiritual markers; Mandala – Spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism
Dragon's Code (2018, Gigi McCaffrey) – concurrent to The White Dragon; The White Dragon (1978) – incorporating the short story A Time When (1975) "The Impression" (1989) – short story by Jody Lynn Nye and Anne McCaffrey in The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern "The Smallest Dragonboy" (1973) – short story later collected in A Gift of Dragons ...
The cults of the White, Green, Yellow and Red Deities had been celebrated separately in different parts of the state. In 677 BCE, Yong, an ancient sacred site where the Yellow Emperor himself was said to have sacrificed and the Zhou dynasty carried out jiào 醮 rituals, or "suburban sacrifices", became the capital of Qin.