Illustrations and Tables
Illustrations
| Yin-Yang and Eight Trigrams
A diagram 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." |
| Immortals
Early representation of immortals as winged beings walking on clouds. |
| Inner Gods
Visualization of the Lords of the thirty-nine gates (hu) of the human body. |
| Talisman of the Center
Talisman of the Emperor of the Center, from one of the main Lingbao scriptures. |
Tables
- Five Agents (wuxing)
- The five agents (or five phases, wuxing) and their main correlations.
- Eight Trigrams (bagua)
- The eight trigrams and their main associations: elements in nature, family relations, and directions in the cosmological configurations "prior to Heaven" and "posterior to Heaven" (xiantian and houtian).