Grandmaster Fu
13th Lineage Holder of Emei Qigong
Grandmaster Fu was born in 1949 into a Chinese Buddhist family. With an exceptional interest in old texts, he began studying Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as ancient Chinese philosophies when he was only 6 years old. By the age of 12, Fu had started to treat and heal others with what he had learned. He began his martial art training in Shaolin kungfu at 7 years old and a couple years later became a student of Luo Xingwu, an eminent Chinese martial arts grandmaster, from whom he learned several martial arts disciplines, such as Bagua and Xingyi kungfu.
Like many young people during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, he was sent into the countryside in northeast China to work with the rural population. He was 18 when he opened a successful medical clinic. He used traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion, and Tuina to treat multitudes of sick people and animals in that area for eight years. Because of his impressive medical skills, the rural people respectfully addressed him as, The Minor Deity.
In 1976, Fu was
then planning to study philosophy or religion. He was looking for a very
renowned professor to study under, until a friend said that they would
take him to meet Abbott Ju Zan, the Supreme Abbot of All-China Buddhism
and 12th Lineage Holder of Emei Qigong. Fu had a recurring dream since
childhood of a monk that would change his life. He didn’t know who
the monk was or why the images were coming to him, but when he saw the
face of the Abbott he recognized him as the monk from the dreams. Upon
meeting him, Ju Zan recognized Fu as well. The Abbott said, ‘Oh,
you’ve finally arrived, it’s time for you to train!’ as
if they already knew each other.
He was invited to join a distinguished group of men chosen to undergo training for the selecting process for the position of 13th Lineage Head of the Emei Qigong School. After four years of intensive training as well as testing, Fu Wei Zhong was selected by His Holiness Ju Zan. For the years that followed, he received further instruction personally from Abbott Ju Zan in Buddhism, Taoism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taijiquan, Qigong, Feng Shui, Future Prediction and other Dharma methods exclusively transmitted from one Lineage Holder to another within the Emei Qigong School. During this time, Fu Wei Zhong was mostly in seclusion, studying, cultivating and integrating the Order’s ancient text into practical forms that could be effectively taught to the public and used.
Eight years later in 1984, he was selected for the position of 13th Lineage Holder, Fu Wei Zhong received the Robe, Bowl and book of Emei Qigong and officially assumed the title ZONGSHI (Lineage Holder). In the spring of 1985, Fu Wei Zhong emerged from seclusion and began teaching the Emei Medical Qigong techniques throughout China, thereby initiating a national revitalization of the role of Qigong in Chinese medical theory and health-care practice.
Once again, he went into seclusion to meditate for three years so that he could further develop the Emei Qigong techniques on a larger scale. It was during this period of extended meditation that he was able to achieve the Qigong state necessary to decode the Qigong skills hidden in code in the classic books of Emei. This code had not been previously broken for 12 generations and the information had remained hidden until Fu Wei Zhong was able to decipher it and to disseminate it in lectures, seminars and in his writings.
Since childhood, Fu Wei Zhong has personally treated, healed and helped hundreds of thousands of patients, from Deng Xiao Ping and James Taylor to orphans and the incurables, among whom tens of thousands have been successfully cured by him via Emei Qigong cultivation, Medical Qigong and traditional Chinese herbal medicine. At age 36, he has been recognized as one of the most prominent grandmasters of Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. People in China have bestowed on him the titles, The Emei Wizard and China’s Medical Buddha and deemed him as the father of modern Medical Qigong. In addition, Fu Wei Zhong was made lifetime president of two Qigong institutions: the International Medical Qigong Academy and the Emei International Qigong Medical Research Institute and held honorary positions and titles in more than 50 hospitals, medical colleges, Qigong clinics, and Qigong associations in China.
Fu Wei Zhong is a learned scholar. Having read thousands of books Chinese and foreign, he is well versed in the medical, philosophical and theological theories of different schools, both Eastern and Western. While reading and learning he took careful notes and wrote down his reflections, which number over three million words. So far, he has published six books and more than twenty treatises in China.
At the behest
of his predecessor, Fu Wei Zhong immigrated to the United States in 1995
to disseminate Emei Qigong therapeutic techniques so that these techniques
can be fused with western medical techniques to create a new, more comprehensive
and effective medical model with the goal of alleviating much of the suffering
in today’s world. Since then, he has determined to transmit all his
knowledge and skills in traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong and Chan
(Zen) cultivation to the American public and has given lectures and teaching
workshops in over 20 American cities, transmitting his Emei Qigong healing
methods to thousands of students. He was invited to the University of
San Francisco and the University of California-San Diego to lecture on
Qigong, and was a visiting professor at the American College of Traditional
Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, teaching curriculum-required courses
on the Emei methodology of Qi emission for diagnosis and treatments (credits
for these courses are required for the award of degrees at this college).
In 1996, he participated in an experiment at the Atlantic Tumor Hospital in California that involved the emission of Qi (energy) in submitting cancer cells. The initial positive results produced by him enabled the experiment to be taken onto a bigger scale. In 2001, the encouraging result was published in Spirituality and Health magazine. Currently, Fu Wei Zhong is invited to participate in another experiment conducted by California Pacific Medical Center of Complementary Medicine Research Institute to invest the ability of Qigong and other holistic modalities in the treatment of brain tumor from a distance. This project is expected to take two to three years to complete.
Today, there are some 7,000 Disciples and 2,000,000 followers Emei Qigong worldwide. With the help of many grateful and devoted disciples, students and healees across the ocean, the healing message from Emei Qigong has been disseminated into each continent. Millions of people have benefited, in physiological, psychological and spiritual levels, from this rising ancient but new aged wellness-cultivating system for health, healing and enlightenment.
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