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greatest achievements is the Duren shangpin miaojing sizhu If. A L rI'b 9')#Jli i71J
tt (Four Commentaries to the Wondrous Scripture of the Upper Chapters
on Salvation; CT 87), which pieces together four exegeses from the fifth to
eighth century, one by Yan Dong i~~ * (fl. ca. 485) of the Northern Qi, and
three by the Tang scholars Li Shaowei '* tJ,'1~ (fl. 625?), *Cheng Xuanying (fl.
631-50) and Xue Youqi f;f ~ f~ (fl. 740-54), and includes Xue's preface dated
754 from Mount Heng (*Hengshan {jjJ III , Hunan). Chen's 1067 preface follows
one credited to Song Zhenzong (r. 997-1022).
Chen's own preface (dated 1069) to his commentary on the *Liezi, the
Chongxu zhide zhenjing shiwen {rp J1R ~ t~ ~ *1Ji ~ -X (Exegesis of the Authentic
Scripture on the Ultimate Virtue of Unfathomable Emptiness; CT 733), states
how he compiled the glosses of YinJingshun ~Qf1fH~, a Tang official in Dangtu
'I ~ (Anhui), from a worm-eaten manuscript found at Mount Tiantai copied
out by XU Lingfu f~~ ~ In around 800, another of Xu's manuscripts, and a
printed edition from the Imperial Academy.
The Nanhua zhenjing zhangju yinyi ~.~~~-m~~ (Phonetic and
Semantic Glosses to the Sections and Sentences of the Nanhua zhenjing; CT
736), completed by Chen in 1084, was based on his close comparison of nine
Zhuangzi editions. A supplement (Nanhua zhenjing zhangju yushi Ih i'j'gJ~JJli ~
1:1] ~ *; CT 737) includes a detailed table of contents and a section entitled
"Zhuangzi quewu" )ij: r ~ ~R (Lacunae and Mistakes in the Zhuangzi).
Chen's Daode zhenjing zangshi zuanwei pian:@::f!f#- ~ #ili JJiiX: ~ ~ 1~ i'M (Folios
on the Subtleties Assembled from the Archives of the Authentic Scripture of
the Dao and Its Virtue; CT 714) has a 1258 preface by Yang Zhonggeng m{rp
JJt that claims that Ch en was a disciple of Zhang Wumeng and thus ties him
to tenth-century masters of neidan.
In an undated preface to his Shangqing dadong zhenjing yujue yinyi L r~"*
1fnJ~#Jli3;_ ~i'f~ (Phonetic and Semantic Glosses on the Jade Instructions of
the Authentic Scripture of the Great Cavern of the Highest Clarity; CT 104),
Chen details how he gathered old manuscripts of the text after retiring to
Mount Mao (*Maoshan, Jiangsu). Of particular note are the versions by two
earlier Taoists of the Northern Song, *Zhu Ziying and Huangfu Xi l£. ffi:ffi-,
which complemented his fuller reliance on major philological classics such as
the Shuowen jiezi 11ft -X M"* (Explanations of the Signs and Explications of the
Graphs; 100 CE) and the now-lost loo-juan *Yiqie daojing yinyi (Complete Taoist
Scriptures, with Phonetic and Semantic Glosses) complied by Shi Chongxuan
~ * % (or Shi Chong 92. *, ?-713).
Chen's Xisheng jing jizhu [I§ ff *~ ~ tt (Collected Commentaries to the
Scripture of Western Ascension; CT 726) assembled five earlier commentaries.
Although grounded in Chen's interpretation based on his view of the Zhuangzi,
it is divided into thirty-nine sections as the *Dadong zhenjing (Authentic Scrip-