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The process of death itself is described as shijie or release from the corpse but what happens after is described variously as transformation immortality or ascension to heavenFor example the Yellow Emperor was said to have ascended directly to heaven in plain sight while the thaumaturge Ye Fashan.

. There is significant scholarly debate about the Taoist understanding of death. The tradition of depicting humans who have become immortals is an ancient practice in Chinese art and when religious Taoism gained popularity it quickly picked up this tradition with its own immortals. Citation needed While cults dedicated to various Taoist immortals date back to the Han dynasty the popular and well-known Eight Immortals first appeared in the Jin dynasty.

The Chinese version of the Tao Te Ching itself has seen dozens of editions containing anywhere from five to six thousand characters the result of adding certain grammatical particles for clarity or.

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