Lu Shizhong Chinese: 路時中 was a Daoist exorcist in 12th century China, and the founder of the Great Method of the Jade Hall School of Daoism.
At the age of 17, he met a wandering Daoist and learned various talismanic and shamanic arts.
In 1120, he had a vision in which he was shown the location of a secret manuscript of the Shangqing School by a student of Zhang Daoling; this manuscript would later form the basis of Lu's main treatise The Great Method of the Jade Hall of the Three Heavens of the Supreme Mysterious Origin (Chinese: 無上玄元三天玉堂大法).
Lu used the arts that he had learned to make a living performing rites and exorcisms for wealthy patrons.
[1] He founded the Great Method of the Jade Hall School (Chinese: 玉堂大法)[2][3]