Question
This deity forbids peeing while standing up, but promises that three rings of spirits will protect anyone who chants this divinity’s one hundred and eighty precepts. This deity introduces the Scripture of Limitless Salvation and several other texts that depict this deity as the Celestial Worthy’s disciple from the Numinous Treasure tradition. Unlike Vishnu, this deity initiates the conversion of the barbarians in stories of his “transformation” as the Gautama Buddha. This ruler of (*) Taiqing Heaven, appeared to Zhang Ling to tell him to found the Celestial Masters. This “Grand” deity, who is grouped in a trio with the Jade and Supreme Pure Ones, sometimes names the Five Thousand Character Classic attributed to his most famous human manifestation, which tells of the Way and its Virtue. For 10 points, identify this deified person who legendarily penned the Dao De Jing. ■END■
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 68 | -5 |
| Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 78 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 89 | -5 |
| Michael Du | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 109 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 138 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 139 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 140 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 140 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 140 | 10 |