Emei Mountain is one of most majestic and spectacular holy mountains in the world. It is one of the four major Buddhist holy mountains and is the sacred abode of the Maha Bodhisattva Samantabhadra and the Avatamsaka Sutra. Samantabhadra is the primordial Buddha who manifests as a Bodhisattva to bring the teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism to this world system. Full of mountain spirits Emei Mountain was originally inhabited by shamans and Daoists. Laozi (Lao Tsu), the founder of Daoism established a temple in the Jiulao Cave near the mountain's peak during the 5th century BC with the nine ancients of Daoism. The famous Buddhist Monk Tangseng along with the Monkey King Sun Wukong also cultivated in the Jiulao Cave during their famous Journey West. China's most famous poet and Daoist drunken immortal Libai wrote scores of inspirational poems about the inconceivable nature of Emei Mountain. Even the Herbal Immortal Shennong still manifests in the expansive rainforest bestowing amrita elixirs that enlightens as well as they heal. The famous Tibetan Terton Khenpo Jigme Puntsog Rimpoche is the guiding light in the ever expanding Spiritual Water Tantric Monastery where even the Son of Heaven, Emperor Kangxi, stayed and cultivated the precious Buddha Dharma. As a beacon of Wisdom Light outstanding monks, nuns, lay practitioners and pilgrims from every spiritual tradition and every country in the world come to Emei Mountain to receive its blessings and harmonize in this magical sphere of intrinsic awareness.

Rising to 11,000ft. above the Sea of Clouds on the border land between China & Tibet Emei Mountain is a dense jungle rainforest that rises from the rice patties and bamboo groves of the Sichuan basin to pierce the clouds of heaven with its sub-artic peaks. High mountain rivers and crystal clear waterfalls cut deep canyons through the rock faces that can reach thousands of feet high and some waterfalls even dissipate before they hit the ground. There are cavernous swimming holes that lead to underground caves behind the waterfalls where rainbows are always in bloom. Full of Buddhist temples, mountain villages, tribal nomads, exotic animals and sacred herbs pilgrims from all over world come to play in this Buddhist wonderland. Emei Mountain is also home to many rare species of animals such as the panda bear, pigme-pandas and red panda, black bears, frisbee size butterflies, foot long praying mantis', all kinds of birds and hawks, peacocks, many types of snakes, giant insects, and three different types of monkeys that can be found throughout the mountain, yet even a mosquito bite is rare on our Sacred Journeys due to the protective energy and blessings of Samantabhadra.

Emei Mountain is an herbalist's wonderland. The rainforest and varying elevations provide a bounty of common, uncommon and sacred herbs. The extremely potent Snow Lotus Flower stays in bloom even under six feet of snow and makes a powerful kidney tonic. The Golden Hair Dog Root stops bleeding just by touching it. Foot long Suoyang roots raise the Yang even in the coldest of winters. Tianma roots can grow up to six inches long and Emei Ginseng and lingzhi mushrooms are cultivated by the Daoist saints and the Buddhist dakinis to confer immortality. Emei Mountain has four major types of lingzhi mushrooms some the size of coffee tables. The extremely rare Buddha's Hand lingzhi mushroom is a special prize of Emei Mountain. Emei Mountain also has many types of herbal teas. Green tea, black tea, wild tea and high elavation tea can be found throughout the mountain being hawked by local mountain villagers along the forest trail. For the 84,000 types of disease there are 84,000 types of medicine all of which can be found on Emei Mountain.

From the Golden Summit Monastery of Emei Mountain the sun and moon cascades across the Sea of Clouds and sets over the 24,000ft. Konga Mountains of Eastern Tibet. Many healing miracles, wisdom miracles and miracle signs have manifested on Emei Mountain since ancient times and even our students over the past two decades have witnessed quite a few. Some of these miracles include the Buddhist halo, multiplying lanterns, sky signs, unusual rainbows, dreams and visions, and maybe even a visit by the golden monkey. The Maha Bodhisattva Samantabhadra has been know to manifest bestowing blessings and miracle healings even to our own small group of pilgrims. Emei Mountain is adorned with many different types of Buddhist temples and Buddhist monasteries, martial arts schools, healing clinics, TCM hospitals, and even a national TCM and Martial Arts University. It also is home to the world's largest Zen Monastery.

The lineage During the Southern Song Dynasty in 1227 AD a Wudang Daoist martial and medicinal priest named White Cloud, came to Emei Mountain, became a Buddhist monk and eventually the Sudden Enlightenment abbot of the Hua Zang Temple at the Golden Summit of Emei Mountain. White Cloud intergrated his knowledge of confucianism, shamanism, Daoism, Buddhism and the three thousand and six hundred schools that were prelavant at that time into a concise system that was easy to learn and apply and brought about great realizations and sudden enlightenment. After writing the Precious Lotus Cannon and formulating the External Energy Diagnosis and Treatment System Samantabhadra came to him in a vision and told him to pass on his knowledge to the next generation to help rid the world of pain and suffering and to let the light of the dharma shine like the sun. Undisturbed for eight centuries the monastics who practiced this tradition enjoyed a peaceful co-existence with the natural radiance of Emei Mountain until WWII. WWII was harsh in China and it also reached Emei Mountain. After thirteen years of study Master Yongxin passed the lineage onto Zhou Qianchuan who was a western trained doctor and Yongxin fled to Kangding, Tibet which is the next mountain range over. Master Zhou fled north to Shanxi, Province and opened Emei clinic there. In Shanxi Master Zhou taught the public for the first time in history and passed on the Emei system to his children who brought these precious teachings to Taiwan. After China's Liberation in 1949 Master Zhou passed on the Emei lineage to His Holiness Juzan, who was the head of China's Buddhist Association at the Guangji Temple in Beijing.

His Holiness Juzan was a Zen master who was also famous for his knowledge and skill in qigong and Vajrayana Buddhism. After the Cultural Revolution ended His Holiness Juzan exclaimed, "it comes from the people, now let's return it to the people", and Master Juzan opened the teachings to monastics and non-monastics alike spreading the Buddha's light throughout the ten thousand directions. Like the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng he didn't leave one single documented lineage holder but passed the Emei Linji Teachings down to many disciple so that his reach would would be even greater and benefit even more beings. Where the Guangji Temple was the store house for master Juzan's inconceivable teachings many of the new age qigong systems that are floating around the world today actually came from the teachings of this late great Master. Famous qigong systems like Soaring Crane Qigong, Chilel Qigong, and Da Dao Chan Gong all owe many of its roots to the teachings of this great master. However, on Emei Mountain we haven't changed a thing. We still teach the Emei Sudden Enlightenment system in strict accordance with the Dharma and His Holiness Juzan's traditional teachings. Unchanged since ancient times and grounded in the five precepts it is within the light of Dharma and protected by the Buddhas, Bodhisattva, Dakinis, and Dharmapalas. May this powerful system of health, healing and enlightenment illumine the world.

Emei Mountain is the sacred abode of Samantabhadra and is the store house for the Avtamsaka Sutra but many of the different school of Dharma have a presence on Emei Mountain. As it says in the Avatamsaka Sutra all Bodhisattvas who wish to accomplish the ultimate state of Buddhahood must do so by following the transformative teachings of Samantabhadra. That's why Samantabhadra is called the king of the Bodhisatvas and is a main teaching in all of the different schools be it Pure Land, Zen, Vajrayana. All of the great teachings of lord Buddha and the many different schools lead to the same realization of equinimity and on Emei Mountain they are flourishing in this vast Sea of Dharma. Today the most senior master on Emei Mountain is the 100 year old Abbot Master Tongyong. He has spent ninty years on Emei Mountain keeping the lamp of dharma burning for the new generations of dharma masters. His disciple Master Zhaokong is the abbot of the Baoguo Temple where hundred of monks uphold the pureland and pilgrims from all lineages, traditions and religions come to bask. The Terton Khenpo Jigme Puntsog also has a very large monastery growing where the Emperor Kangxi, who was an emination of the Buddha Manjushri, stayed in retreat. Ah, the magic and mystery of this fascinating land can only by Buddhas be told. May you achieve the realization of the sublime dharma and enjoy the Emei Pureland, Amituofo!!!

The Emei Sudden Enlightenment School's Apprenticeship Program
Every year we make our annual pilgrimage to the glorious Emei Mountain to study the Emei Sudden Enlightenment School's External Energy Diagnosis and Treatment system while seeking the blessings and teachings of the many great masters we meet along the way. TCM and all esoteric Chinese arts are traditionally taught in apprenticeship programs from master to disciple in unbroken lineages that have continued since ancient times. Though Academic TCM has become the mainstream in urban environments traditional Chinese culture still flourishes on the holy mountains in apprenticeship programs where the lamp of wisdom medicine is still being passed down. The Emei Sudden Enlightenment Apprenticeship Program is not taught in credit hours but according to individual capacities. The more you can learn the more you are taught until you have the whole system down. You need no prior experience and there are no prerequisites. Anybody can join. It might be good to have some background in Buddhist or Daoist studies, TCM, martial arts, qigong etc... but often it is even better to simply come with an empty mind. There are three basic stages to the apprenticeship program very much like the three stages of the three kayas. Whether you go to Emei Mountain for the fun and adventure or to study Emei Mountain's ancient wisdom traditions of health, healing and enlightenment may you obtain the everlasting state of joyous luminosity!!!

	Emei Grandmaster Tongyong and his disciple Linhai.		Emei peak floating in a sea of clouds.

The four parts of the Emei Journey:
1. The qianneng empowerment: After receiving the Emei Sudden Enlightenment school's qianneng empowerment and opening the third eye, practitioners can see and feel qi energy to diagnose and treat diseases immediately. Realizations will vary according to practitioners natural abilities. Once qi energy becomes demystified and the material and physical reality of qi is understood you can then use this new found awareness to diagnose disease, open your channels, strengthen your health, heal others diseases, transmit qi energy, increase your awareness, reach enlightenment and liberation.

2. The Emei cultivation system: Living in the Buddhist temples on Emei Mountain you will learn the Emei Sudden Enlightenment School's system of purification of the three root poisons, purification of the vase channels and the central channel, Uniting shamatha and vipasana meditation, The Buddha's Diamond Palm Training, Emei's Heaven and Earth Qigong, Large and Small qigong, the Twelve Forms of Emei Qigong forms, Samantabhadra, Vajrasattva, Padmasambhava, Prajnaparimita and Amitabha recitation and meditation.

3. The Emei diagnosis and treatment system: Completley integrated with the cultivation system you will learn observing the external energy field (aura) diagnosis, palm sensitivity diagnosis, other forms of diagnosis, the great compassion palm qi energy transmission, mantra energy transmission, qigong shaitsu, qigong massage, qigong acupointing, tuina, bone and channel adjustments, qigong acupuncture, Emei fengshui healing, Emei Qigong theory, Emei Qigong Therapy application and some basic Emei Mountain herbal medicine. Learn as much as you can absorb.

4. Pilgrimage to the Golden Summit: One of the greatest services in any religious practice and the most expedient way to purify our karma is to go on a pilgrimage to a sacred Mountain. The meandering and often steep trails of Emei Mountain provide a great way to purify the body and mind while achieving new levels of health, healing and awareness. It is also a good opportunity to experience how the local mountain people live in harmony with Heaven and Earth. To see the strength and simplicity of their life in the high mountain rain forest is truly inspiring. It is common to see old ladies carrying 125lb. bags of rice up the mountain or young men carrying large loads of coal, bricks, supplies, and even pligrims up the steep mountain side while most of us are just trying to catch our breath. On Emei Mountain we live and train in the Buddhist monasteries as we ascend to the Golden Summit where our system of cultivation comes from. Dressed in the proper robes we will attend all of the temple's morning ceremonies and then practice Emei meditation, Emei qigong and qigong therapy application throughout the day. We will either spend all day training at the temples or climb the mountain to the next level until we reach the Golden Summit. We will also attend other empowerments, ceremonies, and teachings that we run into on this very Sacred Journey.

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