TAO FA ZHEN29th Generation Long Men
Tao Fa Zhen (Tao Shifu) was born in 1915, in Ankang, Shaanxi. She began studying the Dao at age seven following her uncle who was an at home practitioner of the Zheng Yi Pai. She survived the severe hardship and torture of the cultural revolution, having chosen to stand her ground as a renunciant and refusing to return to societal ways. She came to the Five Immortals Temple around 1990, at the time no more than a few shacks, and was to remain the only residing Abbess for the following ten years.
The messenger said:
- "I am looking for a man by the name of Du, have you seen him?"
Li Shifu replied: - "My surname is Du."
- "Ah, then I have found you!"
The messenger explained to Li Shifu that he was to take him to White Horse Mountain where the Abbess was waiting to meet him. When he arrived, Li Shifu asked Tao Shifu how she had known his name and she only laughed in return.
Li Shifu stayed with her until her ascension to immortality in the year 2000, learning from her scripture, herbs, inner alchemy, and of all intangible things, most importantly the cultivation of life and character, making merit and dispelling desires. He then took her place as Abbot of the Five Immortal Temple.
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