Got any "Dragon Gate" pictures?

[Taiji Bum]

I am looking for pictures of what the Taoists call the "Dragon Gate". Please leave links so I can continue my research please. This is just my crude drawing of my version.

 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drs2biz/74370971/

Thats where I found it.

 

Eva Wongs book has what I believe to be the dragon gate or at least a dragon in a swastika shape.

[Spectrum]

[nightwatchdog]

The original Dragon Gate is a holy Taoist site on the Yellow river. It is said that if a carp can ascend the waterfall it becomes a dragon. Do you see any?

 

Edited June 26, 2008 by nightwatchdog

[Kronos]

what you have created looks a little bit like the falun gong symbol:

[林愛偉]

what you have created looks a little bit like the falun gong symbol:

 

 

And Falun Gong took that symbol from Buddhism...

[Xienkula1]

And Falun Gong took that symbol from Buddhism...

and Buddhism took that symbol from Hinduism...

[Spectrum]

It's pre-Buddhism, pre-Hindu, pre-Shivism...

 

 

Edited June 26, 2008 by Spectrum

[Vajrasattva]

And Falun Gong took that symbol from Buddhism...

 

 

And buddhism & Hinduism took that symbol from Bonpo..

Edited June 27, 2008 by Vajrasattva

[Spectrum]

Lets see some Bon representations.

[rain]

not exactly taoist, rather Islamic Samarran from 5th millenia BC..

but I seem to see or feel a connection, at least in form and movement. the swastica in the middle...and 8 figures around the middle. found it in "Goddess" by Adele Getty.

 

women and scorpions, a relationship between poison and remedy.

 

ehh..HOW do I post from my pc?

 

http://www.thetaobums.com/uploads/12030

 

http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=510

 

 

? hhhhheeeelp

 

OK. that was not ultimate, but...

Edited June 27, 2008 by rain

[Taiji Bum]

Ooops.... the Dragon Gate might not be the swastika. Thats just my idea. I am looking for ANY pictures of what others call the Dragon Gate.

[Xienkula1]

Ooops.... the Dragon Gate might not be the swastika. Thats just my idea. I am looking for ANY pictures of what others call the Dragon Gate.

 

The thing is that your swastika is angular or runic and divides the circles edge in such a way as to make a pakua. 8x8x8 Dimensions.

[dao zhen]

[Taiji Bum]

The thing is that your swastika is angular or runic and divides the circles edge in such a way as to make a pakua. 8x8x8 Dimensions.

It looks that way because I did it in "microsoft draw". In reality it had rounded edges but was also crystaline in appearence and spinning. It had a rainbow hue all around it too. My drawing of what I think the dragon gate is the same as if I tried to draw a person.... you'd get a stick figure. I'm just not an artist. LOL

Edited June 28, 2008 by DarinHamel

[rain]

what are the historic dates of all these findings? I found a geometric figure from Sweden in one of my books that is both yinyang and a suncross/swastika dated approx 2000 BC.

 

geometric doesnt necessarily mean edgy. sorry still no dragon gate pic. but your initial pic gets me going.

[Brian L. Kennedy]

Dragon's Gate is the name of a Daoist sect and the name of a place. If you want to see a picture of the place I typed in (in Chinese) dragons gate and here is a typical China tourism page on it. Look where it says Lung Men (i.e. the top picture)

 

http://www.chinaorg.cn/whyl/06_whyc/2007-0...ent_5004890.htm

 

Take care,

Brian

[rain]

and I actually thought the man didnt mean literally,

but rather was searching for something more mandala-like

to meditate upon.

but he did simply say pictures of the dragon gate.

 

[Taiji Bum]

and I actually thought the man didnt mean literally,

but rather was searching for something more mandala-like

to meditate upon.

but he did simply say pictures of the dragon gate.

 

Everything helps!

[Sunya]

And buddhism & Hinduism took that symbol from Bonpo..

 

prove it.

 

gonna throw Atlantis in there?

 

Bonpo is just a shamanic tradition, why do you give it so much credit when theres no evidence for it

Edited June 29, 2008 by mikaelz

[shontonga]

prove it.

 

gonna throw Atlantis in there?

 

Bonpo is just a shamanic tradition, why do you give it so much credit when theres no evidence for it

 

 

Um, think about it!

 

All traditions are just shamanic traditions!

 

... at the roots if one goes back far enough!

 

?

 

So why wouldn't you give credit?

Edited June 29, 2008 by shontonga

[Spectrum]

mandalas can translate into physical representations

[gendao]

Dragon's Gate is the name of a Daoist sect and the name of a place. If you want to see a picture of the place I typed in (in Chinese) dragons gate and here is a typical China tourism page on it. Look where it says Lung Men (i.e. the top picture)

 

http://www.chinaorg.cn/whyl/06_whyc/2007-0...ent_5004890.htm

 

Take care,

Brian

I've actually been to Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan Province. It's basically a bunch of shallow caves, rooms & reliefs carved into a long hillside cliff. All the iconography is basically Buddhist though.

I would think Jesse's explanation is likely more correct with connection to the Taoist Longmen Pai, then. Very interesting. I still would like to study with him in China sometime, but just ran out of vacation time this year...

[Junbao]

Wow Vortex,

 

That really is incredible!!! Lucky you to have been able to visit there.

 

 

 

Kunming, Yunnan Province

 

Dragon Gate on West Hill

 

The Western Hills (Xi Shan), a band of sheer cliff faces, rise 2,000 feet above the shores of Lake Dian.

 

[Andrei]

This is interesting video about swastika which is found all over the civilizations of the earth:

 

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Edited June 30, 2008 by steam

[Sunya]

 

Um, think about it!

 

All traditions are just shamanic traditions!

 

... at the roots if one goes back far enough!

 

?

 

So why wouldn't you give credit?

 

no. not all traditions are just shamanic. by shamanic i mean purely psychic, doesn't go beyond that into non-duality.

 

and why wouldn't you give credit? because theres no evidence for it as far as I know. speculation isn't evidence.