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Mantra
Yù-Huáng Shàng-Dì
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Deities
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The Jade Emperor (Yù Huáng Shàngdì, 玉皇上帝) is the supreme ruler of the celestial court in Taoism and Chinese folk religion — the god who presides over heaven, earth, and the underworld, and who commands the vast bureaucratic pantheon of gods, officials, and local divinities. In the popular imagination he is the nearest equivalent to a "high god" in Chinese religion. The Jade Emperor's court mirrors the imperial court on earth: deities of rivers and mountains, of cities and trades, of rain and
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