Mo PaiArchive

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People and History

4 articles in this section of the archive.

John Chang seated cross-legged in meditation, bare-chested, one hand raised palm-inward at the chest and the other resting open in his lap. John Chang The shopkeeper in Java who became the most famous internal-energy practitioner of the twentieth century, and hated it. 14 min read An archive plate: a vertical chain of linked rings, solid at the bottom and fading to a broken dashed ring at the top. The Lineage: Mo Tzu to Java Two and a half thousand years of claimed transmission, and what can actually be checked. 11 min read An archive plate: a strip of film with sprocket holes, framing a single red circle. Ring of Fire and "Dynamo Jack" The thirty minutes of television that created the entire subject. 7 min read An archive plate: two offset pages, one behind the other, the front one ruled with text. The Western Transmission Who was taught, what happened to the community, and how it fell apart. 9 min read