Lü Dongbin
Chinese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Leader of the Eight Immortals, swordsman-patriarch of Daoist legend.
Domains
- immortality
- exorcism
Powers
- Vanquish demons with a flying sword
Epithets
- 純陽子 Master of Pure Yang; his Daoist style-nameQuanzhen Daoist tradition; Lü Dongbin as a Quanzhen patriarch (secondary)
- 孚佑帝君 Imperial Lord of Trustworthy Protection; his bestowed titleYuan-Ming Daoist canonization of Lü Dongbin (secondary)
Relations
- companion: He XianguReciprocal of chinese_he_xiangu.companion — He Xiangu and Lu Dongbin are both members of the Eight Immortals (Baxian).Yetts, 'The Eight Immortals', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1916) (secondary); Yang & An, Handbook of Chinese Mythology (2005), s.v. Eight Immortals (secondary)
- mentor: He XianguAs patriarch/leader of the Eight Immortals, Lu Dongbin is the initiator-teacher of He Xiangu in popular hagiography.Yetts, 'The Eight Immortals', JRAS (1916) (secondary); Little & Eichman, Taoism and the Arts of China (2000) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Quanzhen Daoist tradition; Yuan-Ming Eight Immortals corpus (secondary)