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Heavenly-Drum Strike

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 19_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_IV_v2_7.md.

Source file: 19_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_IV_v2_7.md

Japanese/Chinese religious vocabulary: 天鼓
Entry type: BODY TECHNIQUE WITH TEXTUAL LACUNA

The Small Henbai text specifies three strikes of the heavenly drum before the Five-Qi visualization.

“Heavenly drum” can refer in Daoist bodily culture to a tooth/cranial resonance technique, but the Wakasugi text must control interpretation.

  • count: known (3);
  • placement: known;
  • exact bodily mechanics: requires source-specific philological confirmation.