Qualla: Mount Luofu https://qualla.com/mount-luofu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/h/mount-luofu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mount Luofu https://qualla.com/mount-luofu Mount Luofu: Introduction https://qualla.com/mount-luofu/ Photo credit F. S. A. Bourne (?), Public domain. Ge Hong came to Mount Luofu to become immortal. That is not a metaphor. The fourth-century Taoist practitioner and alchemist arrived at this forested mountain north of the Dongjiang River during the Eastern Jin dynasty with a specific purpose: to refine elixirs capable of extending or transcending life. He built four huts. The huts became temples. The temples became one of the most sacred sites in Chinese Taoism — one of the ten greater dongtian, or 'grotto-heavens,' in the Taoist cosmological map of China's sacred landscape. Ge Hong, by most accounts, never achieved physical immortality. But the mountain that absorbed his life's work has now been accumulating the weight of that pursuit for seventeen centuries.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/h/mount-luofu-wp/ws1h-mount-luofu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mount Luofu: The Alchemist's Mountain https://qualla.com/mount-luofu/ Photo credit 圍棋一級, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ge Hong is one of the foundational figures of Chinese alchemy and Taoist religious practice. His most important work, the Baopuzi, blends Taoist cosmology with practical instruction on elixir-making and ritual. At Mount Luofu, he had a laboratory. The 'alchemical kitchen' where h...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/h/mount-luofu-wp/ws1h-mount-luofu-the-alchemists-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full Mount Luofu: Temples Layered Deep https://qualla.com/mount-luofu/ Photo credit 圍棋一級, CC BY-SA 3.0. At the height of the mountain's religious life, there were said to be nine Taoist temples (guan), eighteen Buddhist monasteries (si), and twenty-two nunneries (an) on Mount Luofu. Dynasties rose and fell, and the buildings mostly didn't outlast them. What remains today is five Ta...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/h/mount-luofu-wp/ws1h-mount-luofu-temples-layered-deep.mp3 0:06 3 full Mount Luofu: Where Legend Settles Into Stone https://qualla.com/mount-luofu/ Photo credit 圍棋一級, CC BY-SA 3.0. The mountain holds its stories in specific, physical places. The 'Boots-Losing House' is one of them. According to tradition, Ge Hong and his teacher Bo Jing once sat here talking through the night, so absorbed in scripture that neither noticed the hours passing. At dawn, two swa...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/h/mount-luofu-wp/ws1h-mount-luofu-where-legend-settles-into-stone.mp3 0:06 4 full Mount Luofu: Martial Arts and the Mountain's Living Traditions https://qualla.com/mount-luofu/ Photo credit 圍棋一級, CC BY-SA 3.0. Mount Luofu did not become a closed preserve of antiquity. Several living traditions remained connected to it through the Qing dynasty and into the modern era. Mok Gar martial arts masters studied meditation and traditional Chinese medicine at the Temple of Emptiness. The Wa Sau ...

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