Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang
Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang was born into the Yellow Emperor Concealed Transcendent family lineage in Sichuan province in 1963. His entire life has been devoted to Internal Kung Fu and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He traces his lineage through renowned Zhang family ancestors back to the sage Laozi (Lao Tzu) and even further back to the Yellow Emperor of China. One of his ancestors was Zhang Liang, the 80th generation descendent of the Yellow Emperor. Zhang Liang helped Liu Bang overthrow the Qin dynasty and form the Han dynasty. Zhang Liang later left his imperial palace position and retired to the mountains of Shushan to continue his cultivation of the Dao. Shushan refers to the sacred mountains of modern-day Sichuan and Tibet.
Zhang Liang had an 8th generation descendent named Zhang Daoling. Upon visiting Mt. Qingcheng Zhang Daoling began treating patients through the usage of Qi-infused water from Mt. Qingcheng’s natural spring water. As his healing skills and teachings became more well-known, he founded religious Daoism. The teachings and techniques of Zhang Daoling were passed down through successive generations to Zhang Sanfeng, who founded Daoist Taiji atop Mt. Qingcheng. Zhang Sanfeng’s Daoist Taiji is the origin of the many modern styles of Taiji. Many of his disciples have developed these techniques into the forms and techniques that are commonly known today.
The year 2020 marks the 4,718th year since the time of the Yellow Emperor’s ascension to the throne. Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang’s family ancestors have studied, nurtured and refined these practices, acquiring knowledge for improving health and longevity throughout the millennia. Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang is the Yellow Emperor’s Concealed Transcendent Lineage’s 150th generation lineage holder and highest ranking leader.
This tradition was passed down to Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang by his grandfather. By the age of three, young Yuanming showed a special gift for these practices, and was singled out by his grandfather and father, for early instruction in calligraphy, meditation, internal martial arts, internal alchemy, medical qigong and usage of the Yi-Jing. Since then, Grandmaster Zhang has continued to greatly respect and carry out the mission he received from his ancestors — to safeguard the Dragon Stone passed down from the Yellow Emperor and techniques of using the Dragon Stone energy in order to help the world.
Mt. Qingcheng, where he grew up, has long been fertile ground for great martial artists as well as internal martial arts and medical qigong masters. Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang went on to study with twenty-four different masters and hermits, developing a broad, inclusive background in the traditional arts of Internal Kung Fu, Chinese Medicine, Acupressure Massage, Medical Qigong, Daoism and Tibetan Buddhism. He has been taught the ways of the mountain hermits, who were greatly persecuted during the time of the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976, when eighty percent of these hermits were murdered.
Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang has earned international recognition for his expertise and his helping of numerous people through a variety of systems including medical qigong, internal martial arts, energy painting & calligraphy, practical application of the Yi-Jing, and remote energy healing.
He is an official lineage holder of the following traditions: The Secret of Immortality from the Snowy Mountains of Tibet, Daoist Dragon Gate, Mt. Emei, Mt. Wudang, and the Shaolin Temple. Among his teachers are Lü Zijian, Yu Wencai, Shi Suyun, Li Ziming, Yin Yi, Zhong Fanghan, and Zhang Wenguang.
Since 1992, he has devoted himself to bringing these traditional arts to the Western world, teaching Medical Qigong and Internal Kung Fu seminars, private lessons and giving private Medical Qigong treatments. He has also produced over one hundred instructional videos on Medical Qigong and Martial Arts and published numerous articles in Kung Fu Magazine and Qigong Journal. He is an honorary professor of Chinese Medicine and is a Consultant to the United Nations Qigong Society. He has given several lectures at the UN Headquarters and at prestigious universities such as Stanford University and Harvard University.
In order to preserve the teachings of his ancestors such as the Yellow Emperor and Zhang Liang, Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang built his center in Mt. Qingcheng, the Palace of the Heavenly Dragon, in 1994. Likewise, he also built a center in Tibet in 1998. He continues to pass on the wisdom and experience of the mountain masters at the Palace of the Heavenly Dragon, which was featured in a PBS special: “Qigong – Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century” in 2000. He leads annual Qigong and Martial Arts practice and study tours to sacred sites in Tibet, China, Taiwan and other parts of Asia using his center as a base camp. For serious students desiring to teach Qigong, he offers residential study programs at his centers.
Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang’s 大宗师张元明 Academic Background
Yuanming Zhang, American citizen. Grandmaster of the five sacred Heart-Mind Cultivation techniques of Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Medical, and Martial Arts cultures. 150th generation Grandmaster and foremost leader of the Shushan Yellow Emperor’s Concealed Transcendent Lineage’s (黄帝隐仙派) ancient Daoist Medicine, Wellness, and Pharmacology and Heart-Mind Cultivation as well as the Imperial Heart Transformation (Xinyi) Feng Shui Method.
The first grandmaster to reveal the ten thousand year old secret of immortality from the holy mountain of Tibet in the 20th century. Oriental Medical Doctoral Supervisor. The first extraordinary person who lectured at the United Nations headquarters in the 20th century as a living fossil manifestation of the near-extinct 5000-year-old Oriental medical culture.
The only living spiritual master with 54-years of concealed transcendent (immortal) cultivation in seclusion at an altitude of more than 4000 meters in the sacred snowy mountains of Tibet and also the Earth's Arctic 10,000-year-old glacial valley retreat, to do alchemical training through naked heavenly bathing, Bigu fasting, and conduct blessings on the world.
38 years of clinical treatment and teaching experience. He is a professor of Chinese Medicine and offers original continuing education unit courses in the United States for the California Acupuncture Board and NCCAOM.
Grandmaster and foremost lineage holder of the heart-mind cultivation techniques of Zhang Liang (张良), an imperial tutor to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Also the leading lineage holder of the techniques of eminent physician Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang received a Chinese Medicine Doctorate personally certified by Lü Bingkui (吕炳奎). He is also Lü Bingkui’s direct disciple who received complete transmission of sacred healing techniques for Heart-Mind cultivation. Lü Bingkui is the first director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and the founder of New China's Traditional Chinese Medicine industry.
The 17th generation Grandmaster of Mt. Wudang Quanzhen Dragon Gate Lineage’s Fist & Sword (武当山全真龙门派), Way of Alchemy and Daoist Medicine. His Dao name is Zhang Jiaozong (张教宗).
The 31st generation Grandmaster of the Shaolin Temple’s Zen, Martial Arts and Medicine (少林寺元禅武医). His Zen name is Shi Deming (释德明).
Founder and lineage master of the five traditions of Zen Practice at the Holy Mount Wanfu in the United States. His Zen name is Guoming Miaoyuan (果明妙元).
In 1963, Zhang Yuanming was born in what was in antiquity the sacred land of King Yufu of the ancient Shu Kingdom (古蜀国鱼凫王圣地). His father and grandfather trained him in the heart-mind cultivation methods of the Zhang family ancestors. These methods originate from the Han Dynasty Concealed Transcendent Lineage’s forefather Zhang Liang, who was the imperial tutor to the emperor. Grandmaster Zhang has been practicing Daoist Medical Taiji, Way of Alchemy, and Zen meditation nonstop every midnight since he was 3 years old. He frequented the sacred mountains of Tibet and Shushan for cultivation in seclusion and encountered Huolong Zhen Ren (火龙真人), the Daoist spiritual masters of Fire Dragon Internal Alchemy. Through these encounters, he was taught and received the secret teachings of the Fire Dragon Way of Alchemy.
From 1982 to 1988, he followed his teacher Yu Wencai (于文才) to instruct and do treatments on patients with difficult illnesses. Yu Wencai was the President of a TCM hospital in Wenjiang, Sichuan Province and also a famous TCM doctor and Grandmaster of Qigong and Martial Arts.
On March 5, 1988, Zhang Yuanming officially opened up to the world and began publicly teaching his methods. He developed a remote energy healing method where he creates a Qi-field that can simultaneously regulate and bless the spirit and health of the 1,000-10,000 participants in his events. He conducted these events for three years and within these three years he has affected around 100 million people from various parts of the world. This form of remote energy healing is based on Xinyi, Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist Medical and Martial heart-mind cultivation techniques.
On May 28th, 1989 Master Zhang helped over a thousand people replenish their Qi at the Shanghai Science Hall by blanketing the hall with his own Qi. Simultaneously, scientists more than a thousand miles away at Northwestern University in the city of Xi’an conducted a scientific experiment measuring the remote transmission of his Qi. Their results were published in the study, “A Remote Experiment on the Influence of Original Light Qigong on Structural Phenomena.”
On March 3rd, 1990, Master Zhang held a medical Qigong convocation for over 1000 people at Fudan University in Shanghai to report on the resonance and response of his Qi replenishment practice. At the venue, scientists used instrumentation to measure the strength of the replenishing Qi Master Zhang emitted during various forms of Qigong performed on site. The results showed the presence of high energy particles three times higher than the naturally occurring baseline levels of the venue. It was the highest levels the team had measured from among over 50 Qigong masters and specialists.
On September 9, 1992, Zhang Yuanming gave lectures at the United Nations Headquarters. Following this event, he created the U.N. Master’s Colloquium and became the first person to go on a global tour and present a series of lectures in the United Nations Headquarters on Chinese traditional martial arts, oriental medicine, Buddhist and Daoist immortal methods of cultivating health, benefitting many in the world. He has also presented lectures at several universities including Stanford University, Harvard University, and Cornell University. "Chinese Daily News", “Stanford University Campus Report”, "Overseas Chinese News", "American Chinese TV" and other media channels conducted special reports.
In 1993 became a lifelong research Professor, Doctor, and International Department Director at the Huaxi Chinese and Western Medical Research Institute in Sichuan, China.
Since 1994 in the United States, Zhang Yuanming has published more than 300 books, essays, monographs, and selected DVD textbooks on martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine and energy art health preservation, including “Hsin-Yi Five Elements Boxing”, “Hsin-Yi 12 Animals”, “Wudang Qing Cheng Nei Dan Taiji Sword”, “Shaolin Chan-mi Broadsword”, "Illustrated Guide to Xingyi Martial Art", “Taoist Taiji Boxing”, “Primordial Taiji Quan and Way of Alchemy”, "Huang Di Nei Jing Heart-Mind Cultivation Method" and other series.
In 1994 became an adjunct professor at Central China Normal University.
In 1995, he became the director and professor of the Department of Acupuncture & Qigong of Beijing Guangming College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In 1996, he developed a series of continuing education courses on energy medicine for acupuncture and Chinese medicine practitioners in the United States certified by the NCCAOM and California Board of Acupuncture. He is the dean and professor of the International Qigong Medical College.
In 1998 founded Enbo Tibetan Medicine and Herbs Institute in Aba County and became honorary Director and top level researcher.
In 2000, he was a doctoral supervisor to Ph.D students of Oriental Medicine at Boston University.
In 2005, Zhang Yuanming creatively organized at the United Nations Headquarters, an exhibition by a top Chinese artist and arts professor, "Bai Gengyan’s Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition", and hosted the "Universe in Hand, All Changes From the Heart" famous artist forum. The market value of Bai Gengyan's (白庚延) works in 2011 exceeded 100 million yuan, which is indeed a leading example of Chinese renaissance.
In 2012, he went to Canada to host the 21st World Culture and Art Training Expo with Famous Artists;
On November 12th, 2013 Zhang Yuanming went to the world's largest investment bank Morgan Stanley’s global headquarters in New York and created the Global Universal Love Co-Cultivation and Investment Forum. Morgan Stanley's stock value greatly increased upon creation of Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang’s special energy field to help the company and its leaders. This also helped the Alibaba Company, founded by Jack Ma, to be successfully listed in the United States in September 2014.
Yuanming Zhang is the organizing chairman of the Annual United Nations Headquarters, U.S. “Light in the World” Award and Annual Meeting on World Cultural Travel Arts and Macrobiotic Health & the “Cloud Roaming” Global Itinerant Research Competition which began in 2018.
On August 20-22, 2019, Zhang Yuanming went to the U.S. Air Force Academy to give lectures, organize, and host the “Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the United States-China Friendship Culture and Art Festival - the first global tour of the World Art and Culture Heritage Preservation of Manuscripts of the Masters, and Calligraphy Relics Cultural Exhibition”
Every season Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang holds the World Cultural Tourism & Macro Health Alliance Masters Seminar event and conducts Culture & Health tours in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and other countries.
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Yuanming Zhang - Current Positions
Buffalo State, The State University of New York, Center for China Studies Director of International Affairs Office, Special Professor of Chinese Studies
United Nations Masters Colloquium, A Nonprofit Corporation
World Macrohealth Alliance for Cultural Travel Chairman
World Yangsheng Association Chairman
United Nations Energy Field Research Association Chairman
President of Five Arts Academy, Inc. 501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization