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			<h1><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Baiyun Guan </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">白云观</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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					Temple of Founder Qiu 邱祖殿</font></h1>
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							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Temple of Founder Qiu </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">邱祖殿</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Qiū Zǔ Diàn) is dedicated to Qiu Chuji, or to use his Daoist name, Qiu Changchun </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">长春</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Chángchūn), the founder of the Longmen tradition of Quanzhen Daoism. Qiu Chuji (</font>丘处机<font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">) was born in what is now Shandong Province in 1148. Shandong is in the east on the ocean and north of the Yangtze River. Until 1142 Shangdong had been ruled by the Chinese Song Dynasty, but in 1142 the Jurchen Jin Dynasty pushed the Song army to the south of the Yangtze. Shandong is also famous for being the birthplace of Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC).</font>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Qiu Chuji rejected the study of Confucianism and at the age of 19 went to study to become a Daoist monk. In his travels he met Wang Chongyang. He became one of his disciples and eventually traveled with him to Shandong after Wang Chongyang ended his period of meditation and began to go from place to place to teach and find disciples. In Shandong, Wang Chongyang found the last of his seven disciples and when they were ready sent them out to found temples and teach themselves. The seven were: </font></p>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wang Chuyi </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">王处一</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, <br>
										Hao Datong </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">郝大通</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <br>
										Sun Bu'er </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">孙不二</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">,  the female Immortal, <br>
										Liu Chuxuan </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">刘处玄</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, <br>
										Tan Chuduan </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">谭处端</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, <br>
										Ma Yu </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">马钰</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, and <br>
										Qiu Chuji </font>丘处机</p>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Each of them would spread the teachings of Wang Chongyang and found their own tradition within the tradition of Wang Chongyang's Quanzhen Daoism.</font></p>
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