 The Lingbao School ( Simplified Chinese : 灵宝派 ; Traditional Chinese : 靈寶派 ; pinyin : Líng Bǎo Pài ) , also known as the School of the Sacred Jewel or the School of Numinous Treasure , was an important Daoist school that emerged in China in between the Jin Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty in the early fifth century CE . It lasted for about two hundred years until it was absorbed into the Shangqing and Zhengyi currents during the Tang Dynasty . The Lingbao School is a synthesis of religious ideas based on Shangqing texts , the rituals of the Celestial Masters , and Buddhist practices . 
