A collated and critical study of the Xiang'er commentary to the Laozi / Tsung-i Jao ; edited and translated by David Chai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rao, Zongyi, author.

Contributor:

Chai, David, 1971- editor.

Series:

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i ; 5.

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024

Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laozi. Dao de jing--Criticism and interpretation.

Laozi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 .

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-69776-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004697768 DOI