Baduanjin is one of the traditional health preserving methods of Taoism, which was first seen in Hui Yuan of Daoism and Baduanjin of Wang Shichen in Volume 69.

Its concepts such as meridians and true qi are only found in traditional Taoist theory;

Buddhism borrows Taoist kung fu and then develops and innovates it;

Like modern technology, we all learn from innovation.

But the source lies in Taoism.