The Immortal Tribulation

The Sutra of a Hundred Parables, The Parable of Curing Baldness: "The people of this world are likewise afflicted by birth, old age, illness, and death, and seek a place where they may live forever and never die." Han Yu of the Tang dynasty, Epitaph for Li Jun, Vice Censor in the Palace: "One of them had once served as magistrate of Xingze in Zheng, and believed the Taoist teaching that one could live forever and never die." Popular History of the Qin Unification of the Six States, Part Two: "Qin Shi Huang then journeyed to the Eastern Sea. There he suddenly encountered the Taoist Xu Jia, who presented a memorial to him: 'There are three immortal mountains in the Eastern Sea, and on them grows an herb that grants eternal life.'"

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