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A Collated and Critical Study of the Xiang’er Commentary to the Laozi
老子想爾注校證
Series: - Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i, Volume: 5
Author:
Editor / Translator:
This work is a translation of the
Xiang'er commentary to the
Daodejing and Jao Tsung-i's (1917-2018) supplemental notes and analysis. Jao Tsung-i offers a historically and hermeneutically rich study of the
Xiang’er Commentary, discovered in the Mogao caves at Dunhuang in the final years of the Qing Dynasty, and its author Zhang Daoling. Opening a new and fascinating window into the early reception of the
Daodejing, Jao Tsung-i also uncovers the important influence texts such as the Scripture of Great Peace (Taiping jing) had on Celestial Masters Daoism and the construction of the Xiang'er commentary.
David Chai is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Series Editor of
Daoism and the Human Experience (Bloomsbury Academic), Prof. Chai's research focuses on ancient and medieval Chinese philosophy, aesthetics, and comparative philosophy.
Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i: Xuantang Anthology—Series Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Translator’s Preface
Preface
1 Explanatory Abstract
2 Recorded Commentary of Xiang’er
3 Annotative Discussion
4 Annotative Notes
1 The Origin of the Name “Daoist Religion”
2 The Genuine Dao, Genuineness of the Dao, and the Genuine Text
3 Tenets of the Dao
4 Person of Dao, Daoist Priest, and Transcendent Person
5 Guarding the One
6 On Joy and Anger, Auspicious and Inauspicious Fortune
7 The Sound of Rapidly Plucked Strings in Equilibrium
8 On Life and Studying Life
9 Auspicious Talismans of Great Peace
10 The Natural
11 Harmonizing the Five Elements
12 Issuing Forth Prosperity to Overcome Confinement
13 Halos of the Sun and Moon, and the Guest Who Defiantly Does Not Shine
14 The Arsenal and Tower, Wolf and Fox, General and Cavalry Officials, Chamber and Spearhead Stars
15 The Dragon Is without Sons, False Arts
16 Jade Maiden
17 Writings of the Yellow Emperor, Mysterious Maiden, and Rong Cheng
18 Enriching the Marrow and Cherishing the Essence
19 The Dao Prohibits Sacrificial Tributes to the Dead
20 Disaster Returns to One’s Descendants
21 Great Yin
22 Officials of Earth
23 Officers of Heaven and the Life-Count
24 The Corpse and Corpse People
25 The Compass
26 The Bright Hall
27 Straw Dogs
28 Xi Zhong Made Carts, the Yellow Emperor Made Rooms
29 Great Virtue
30 The Character Zhuo 汋
31 The Ladle
32 Rhymed Words in the Xiang’er Commentary
33 The Title of Laozi’s Book
5 Different Explanations of the Xiang’er Commentary
6 The Xiang’er Commentary and Heshang Gong’s Section and Verse
1 Part 1
2 Part 2
7 Comparison between the Xiang’er Commentary and Suo Dongxuan Edition
8 The Xiang’er Commentary and Scripture of Great Peace
9 Supplement to the Lost Texts of the Xiang’er Commentary
10 Examining Zhang Daoling’s Writings
11 The Nine Precepts and Three Harmonies of the Xiang’er Commentary, with Additional Discussion on the Newly Published Critical Edition of the Scripture of Great Peace
12 Continued Discussion of the Xiang’er Commentary
1 Preface
2 Addendum to manuscript number 6825 in the Stein Catalogue
3 Sun Simiao Citing the Precepts of Xiang’er, with Further Discussion of Xiang’er being Called a Transcendent Person
4 The Nine Practices of the Xiang’er Commentary and Lord Lao’s Visualization Diagram
5 On the Xiang’er Commentary’s “First was the Scripture then the 5,000-Character Classic as the Daoist Numerical System.”
6 The Xiang’er Scripture as Received by the Preceptor of Eminent Mystery
7 Discussing “Do Not Harm the Kingly Breath” in the Twenty-Seven Precepts of Xiang’er and the Scripture of Great Peace
8 A Brief Record of Daoist Writings Citing the Xiang’er Commentary
9 Conclusion
13 Four Points on the Xiang’er Commentary
1 The Jixia Academy and the theory of Essence and Breath
2 The State of Chu and the theory of Proper Breath and Primal Breath
3 Huang-Lao and the Theory of Identical Breath, Profound Breath, and Tyrant Breath
4 The “Five Elements” Silk Text and the School of Rites’ Theory of the Breath of Benevolence, Breath of Righteousness, and Breath of Ritual
5 The Scripture of Great Peace’s theory of Preserving the Primal Breath and Wang Fu’s Theory of the Breath of the Dao
6 The Early Han Mawangdui Recipe for Nourishing Life and the Theory of Contracting Breath as the Root of Zhang Daoling’s Thought
Appendices
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Translator’s Preface
Preface
1 Explanatory Abstract
2 Recorded Commentary of Xiang’er
3 Annotative Discussion
4 Annotative Notes
1 The Origin of the Name “Daoist Religion”
2 The Genuine Dao, Genuineness of the Dao, and the Genuine Text
3 Tenets of the Dao
4 Person of Dao, Daoist Priest, and Transcendent Person
5 Guarding the One
6 On Joy and Anger, Auspicious and Inauspicious Fortune
7 The Sound of Rapidly Plucked Strings in Equilibrium
8 On Life and Studying Life
9 Auspicious Talismans of Great Peace
10 The Natural
11 Harmonizing the Five Elements
12 Issuing Forth Prosperity to Overcome Confinement
13 Halos of the Sun and Moon, and the Guest Who Defiantly Does Not Shine
14 The Arsenal and Tower, Wolf and Fox, General and Cavalry Officials, Chamber and Spearhead Stars
15 The Dragon Is without Sons, False Arts
16 Jade Maiden
17 Writings of the Yellow Emperor, Mysterious Maiden, and Rong Cheng
18 Enriching the Marrow and Cherishing the Essence
19 The Dao Prohibits Sacrificial Tributes to the Dead
20 Disaster Returns to One’s Descendants
21 Great Yin
22 Officials of Earth
23 Officers of Heaven and the Life-Count
24 The Corpse and Corpse People
25 The Compass
26 The Bright Hall
27 Straw Dogs
28 Xi Zhong Made Carts, the Yellow Emperor Made Rooms
29 Great Virtue
30 The Character Zhuo 汋
31 The Ladle
32 Rhymed Words in the Xiang’er Commentary
33 The Title of Laozi’s Book
5 Different Explanations of the Xiang’er Commentary
6 The Xiang’er Commentary and Heshang Gong’s Section and Verse
1 Part 1
2 Part 2
7 Comparison between the Xiang’er Commentary and Suo Dongxuan Edition
8 The Xiang’er Commentary and Scripture of Great Peace
9 Supplement to the Lost Texts of the Xiang’er Commentary
10 Examining Zhang Daoling’s Writings
11 The Nine Precepts and Three Harmonies of the Xiang’er Commentary, with Additional Discussion on the Newly Published Critical Edition of the Scripture of Great Peace
12 Continued Discussion of the Xiang’er Commentary
1 Preface
2 Addendum to manuscript number 6825 in the Stein Catalogue
3 Sun Simiao Citing the Precepts of Xiang’er, with Further Discussion of Xiang’er being Called a Transcendent Person
4 The Nine Practices of the Xiang’er Commentary and Lord Lao’s Visualization Diagram
5 On the Xiang’er Commentary’s “First was the Scripture then the 5,000-Character Classic as the Daoist Numerical System.”
6 The Xiang’er Scripture as Received by the Preceptor of Eminent Mystery
7 Discussing “Do Not Harm the Kingly Breath” in the Twenty-Seven Precepts of Xiang’er and the Scripture of Great Peace
8 A Brief Record of Daoist Writings Citing the Xiang’er Commentary
9 Conclusion
13 Four Points on the Xiang’er Commentary
1 The Jixia Academy and the theory of Essence and Breath
2 The State of Chu and the theory of Proper Breath and Primal Breath
3 Huang-Lao and the Theory of Identical Breath, Profound Breath, and Tyrant Breath
4 The “Five Elements” Silk Text and the School of Rites’ Theory of the Breath of Benevolence, Breath of Righteousness, and Breath of Ritual
5 The Scripture of Great Peace’s theory of Preserving the Primal Breath and Wang Fu’s Theory of the Breath of the Dao
6 The Early Han Mawangdui Recipe for Nourishing Life and the Theory of Contracting Breath as the Root of Zhang Daoling’s Thought
Appendices
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
Scholars and practitioners of Daoist religion, scholars and students of Chinese religion and philosophy, scholars and students of ancient Chinese history.