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Lao (*Laoshan, Shandong), Mount Wudang (*Wudang shan, Hubei), Mount
Qingcheng (*Qingcheng shan, Sichuan), and so forth, and a Longmen patri-
archal tradition began to form under the syncretic impulsions of the Zhengyi
lineage. The multiplication of Longmen branches was a phenomenon of the
late Ming dynasty. Thanks only to the reformer Wang Changyue, however,
Longmen became an officially recognized "Quanzhen movement." In his wake,
the various Longmen branches came to be integrated into an ideal lineage of
Longmen patriarchs. Many famous branches flourished in southeastern China:
for instance the Hangzhou (Zhejiang) branches of the Tianzhu guan --}( U W
(Abbey of the Pillar of Heaven), the Jingu dong -:!i.111 110] (Cavern of the Golden
Drum), and the Dade guank.1.W ft (Abbey of Great Virtue). In Zhejiang, one
also finds the branch of Tongbo (Tongbo shan ffOJ fA Ill), the Yunchao %*
branch of MountJingai (Jingai shan 1;:: :f.lllj) at Huzhou 1Nl 'JI'I, and others. Long-
men branches were also present in southwestern China, such as the Longmen
Tantric branch of Mount Jizu (Jizu shan m lE ill , Yunnan; see Esposito 1993,
2: 389-440, and Esposito 1997, 67-123). In the northeast, there was for instance
the Gansu branch of the eleventh patriarch, *Liu Yiming (1734-1821).

Monica ESPOSITO
ID Chen Bing 1988; Esposito 1993; Esposito 1997; Esposito 2001; Esposito
2004C; Igarashi Kenryii 1938, 64-65; Mori Yuria 1994; Oyanagi Shigeta 1934,
32-35; Qing Xitai 1988-95, 4: 77-183 and 280-329; Qing Xitai 1994, I: 200-205;
Wang Zhizhong 1995; Yoshioka Yoshitoyo 1979
* Wang Changyue; for other related entries see the Synoptic Table of Con-
tents, sec. IV3 (''Alchemy: Longmen")

LouJinyuan

1689-1 776; zi: Sanchen -~: 1'2; haD: Langzhai eJl ~ (Fast in Brightness),
Shangqing wairen L ~~ J~ A (Guest of Highest Clarity)

Lou Jinyuan is probably, along with a few abbots of the *Baiyun guan (Abbey
of the White Clouds), the Taoist of the Qing dynasty who gained the greatest
national prestige. His life is reminiscent in many ways of the famous *Zhang
Liusun, chaplain of Khubilai khan (Shizu, r. 1260-1294) of the Yuan dynasty.
Like Zhang, Lou was a young Taoist of a hereditary family of priests attached
to the prestigious Mount Longhu (*Longhu shan, jiangxi); he was brought
to the court in the retinue of the Celestial Master, gained the attention of