Monday 17 September 2007

Pictures of Zhong Tan Yuan Shuai (中壇元帥李哪吒)





Zhong Tan Yuan Shuai (中壇元帥) aka Third Prince of the Li (李府三太子) or the Central Marshal of the Spiritual Armies.

Chinese name known as Li Na Zha (李哪吒), 3rd son of Heavenly Pagoda King Li Jing (托塔天王李靖).

In Hinduism, he's known as Nalakuvara, one of the Dharma Protector.

In Folks Belief, Li Na Zha was regard as the Disciple of Tai Yi Zhen Ren of Jin Guang Dong (金光洞太乙真人).

After he got his new lotus body (蓮花化身) from his Master, he was being sent off to assist Master Jiang Tai Gong (姜子牙太公) to fight against the Evil King Zhou (殷紂王), after Master Jiang Tai Gong won the battle, he got bestowed by Master Jiang as the Central Heaven General - to look after all Spiritual Armies and guard against all negative entities, etc.

Whereas in Main Stream Taoism rituals/ceremonies, he wont or seldom be invited.

36 comments:

  1. 中壇元帥寶誥
    Zhong Tan Yuan Shuai Bao Gao (Praise Mantra)

    志心皈命禮。
    Zhi Xin Gui Ming Li

    興周聖將。滅紂前鋒。
    Xing Zhou Sheng Jiang, Mie Zou Qian Feng

    金光洞裹鍊金光。
    Jin Guang Dong Li Lian Jin Guang

    玉虛奉命降陳塘。
    Yu Xu Feng Ming Jiang Chen Tang

    左執金圈。右執尖鎗。
    Zuo Zhi Jin Quan, You Zhi Jian Qiang

    足踏兩輪。曰火曰風。
    Zu Ta Liang Lun, Yue Huo Yue Feng

    驅妖滅怪斬魔王。
    Qu Yao Mie Guai Zhan Mo Wang

    親歷一千七百浩劫。
    Qin Li Yi Qian Qi Bai Hao Jie

    而圓道果。
    Er Yuan Dao Guo

    破盡三萬八千惡陣。
    Po Jin San Wan Ba Qian E Zhen

    永鎮天宮。
    Yong Zhen Tian Gong

    一蕊蓮花化成壯嚴妙相。
    Yi Rui Lian Hua Hua Cheng Zhuang Yan Miao Xiang

    十方世界。
    Shi Fang Shi Jie

    廣濟救苦慈航。
    Guang Ji Jiu Ku Ci Hang

    玄功深奧。變化無窮。
    Xuan Gong Shen Ou, Bian Hua Wu Qiong

    達地昇天。
    Da Di Sheng Tian

    轉眼中臨敵無懼。
    Zhuan Yan Zhong Lin Di Wu Ju

    威武堂堂。大忠大孝。
    Wei Wu Tang Tang, Da Zhong Da Xiao

    至勇至剛。安民護國。
    Zhi Yong Zhi Gang, An Min Hu Guo

    中壇元帥大天尊。
    Zhong Tan Yuan Shuai Da Tian Zun

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  2. 中壇元帥李哪吒 please bless my family, friends and neighbours!!!...

    -_-

    amitabha... -_-

    dsfz

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  3. Can you please provide an english translation on the mantra?

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  4. Whereas in Main Stream Taoism rituals/ceremonies, he wont or seldom be invited.


    why he wasnt to be invite ??

    den who will be the "hu fa " for taoism rituals?? wang tian jun ??

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  5. Hahahahaha.. to be honest with you, Li Na Zha is not that popular among the Main Stream Taoism Culture, etc. He's more towards the Folks Taoism or the Folks Belief, only after certain period (after Feng Shen Bang gets common) then he's being recognised by most of the people (including the Taoists who wanted to make it commercial).

    In Main Stream Taoism, we have the Four Heavenly Marshals or the Six Heavenly Generals, another one is the one you mentioned, Wang Ling Guan (part of the 4 and 6).

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  6. oh okok .. understand !! haha

    the four heavenly marshals is " si da tian wang " izzit ?? wang tian jun is part of them meh ?

    who is the six heavenly generals ??

    onli heard abt 36 heavenly generals ..

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  7. Four Heavenly Marshals are not Si Da Tian Wang. Alot of people tend to mistaken that, to be accurate, Si Da Tian Wang (四大天王/四大金剛) only being used in Buddhist Context and not Taoism.

    Nowadays, a lot of people tend to mix them up.

    In Taoism, we invited Si Da Yuan Shuai (四大元帥) or Si Da Tian Jun (四大天君) which are:

    Ma Tian Jun - 馬華光
    Zhao Tian Jun - 趙公明
    Kang Tian Jun - 康妙威
    Wang Tian Jun - 王靈官

    As for Liu Tian Jun or Liu Yuan Shuai will be:

    Ma Tian Jun - 馬華光
    Zhao Tian Jun - 趙公明
    Kang Tian Jun - 康妙威
    Wang Tian Jun - 王靈官
    Wen Tian Jun - 溫瓊
    Gao Tian Jun - 高員

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  8. jave you haven't sleep yet?!!!... -_-

    already 1:11am!!!... -_-

    dsfz

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  9. Hahahahaha, i still need to do some preparations for some of the temples -> their celebrations coming.

    now preparing some posters for them and also, to answer enquiries lo.. hee hee.

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  10. oh!!!... ^_^

    my sintua teacher from another sintua celebrating soon too!!!...

    mine also celebrating soon too... so fast 1 year pass by...

    dsfz


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  11. haha .. okok .. "li jing" tian wang not included ?? how bout 36 generals ?

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  12. Li Jing is not included cos, very obvious, he's not a chinese.. wahahahahaha....

    In some context, Li Jing and all his sons are being imported into our Chinese Religions thru Hinduism. So when the time our Taoism being fixed or writing being done, they had yet to be imported into China, only later then they appeared in our Chinese Culture, etc.

    In Taoism, there are a few sets of 36 Generals, the set that most sintua used is the very common set out of the many sets.

    Those I can name now are:

    1 - from Xuan Tian Shang Di
    2 - from Bao Sheng Da Di
    3 - from Feng Shen Bang
    4 - from Taoist Ritual Context

    PS: some of them do over-lap

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  13. ur sintua teacher from another sintua? hmmm who is that?

    ur will be Da Sheng lo.. wahahahahaha...

    must invite us to see see hor.

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  14. huh ?? from india !! ??

    i thought they appear at shang dynasty ?? !!

    oh u mean 36 generals can be form in anyway by diff generals ??

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  15. hahahaha, the author of Feng Shen Bang just took Shang Dynasty as the background of the whole incident, to be more accurate, Li Jing and his sons should exist far before that time (if they are from taken from the Hinduism Context).

    Hinduism is a very old ancient religion in the world.

    as for 36 Generals, not that they can be formed by just mix-and-match any Generals, instead, they are all being fixed and match long long time ago, just that not much people know about their combination only till these recent odd odd years.

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  16. jave... -_-

    not yet... not yet... but if we are fated to meet, we surely got chance to meet... ^_^

    me cannot say much about my teacher's sintua and my family sintua yet... as my family sintua guangying says we must remain low profile as possible for the moment... -_-

    my blog is mainly to share ideas and knowledge and how to love oneself the proper and right way... though not really low profile in my blog but me will surely invite you when the time is ripe!!!...

    dsfz

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  17. hahahahahaha.. i see i see.. no problem no problem.. all goes according to fate ba :P

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  18. yes... ^_^

    just as superdarkchocolate and me got fate!!!... -_-

    dsfz


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  19. oh so wats the 36 generals ??



    but ur blog written : In Taoism, there are a few sets of 36 Generals, the set that most sintua used is the very common set out of the many sets.

    Those I can name now are:

    1 - from Xuan Tian Shang Di
    2 - from Bao Sheng Da Di
    3 - from Feng Shen Bang
    4 - from Taoist Ritual Context



    so why got so many sets ??

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  20. Cos in the Heavenly Realm, there are that many sets of 36 Generals :P

    In Spore, most of them only know of one sets, so they can only used that set of 36 Generals.

    In Taoist Ritual, usually we will used another set of 36 Generals (usually without names, only the surname or the titles - but till today, there's still conflicts on how accurate is the combination).

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  21. oh okok .. understood !! thanks !!

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  22. hahahahahaha.. finally :P

    So now is that, for those who's tua got the 36 Generals, who they invited? wahahahahahaha.. a mystery rite ;)

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  23. ya .. its jus which set of 36 generals they invited ba ..

    like wat u say .. there is onli one common set used in sg .. so mayb that set loh haha ..

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  24. hahahahaha.. hope so, and hope the set they invited is not the set will bring disasters to them :P

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  25. ????? huh ????? bring disasters ??

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  26. hahahahaha, it's possible, jus that no one aware of that, anyway, when that happened, we will know.

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  27. haha .. nvm .. i dont wanna kn .. haha .. siam first loh ... hahahaha

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  28. hahahahahaha.. alot of ppl also dont wan to know, but sometime it jus happen without lettin anyone know, this is the crucial and scary part.

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  29. i kn wat u mean .. but hopefully jus all be fine .. anyway wat we are doin is for well beings .. =)

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  30. Due to different areas of different beliefs, 36 Generals are being mix and match to an extend of all Generals inside are not accurate, etc.

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  31. When is nezha tai zi actual birthday?

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  32. There's no actual Birthday for him, cos he is not a Taoist Deity neither is a Folks Heavenly Being.

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  33. then jave. do u know when is the birthday of kang yuan shuai???

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