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zhenxian tidao tongjian (49.14b- 16b) recounts that he cured illnesses with pills
made of "talismanic water" ifushui r-f7.K) and mud, whence comes his haG
iwan (Muddy Pellet, also a name of the upper *dantian, see *niwan).
Chen received instruction on inner alchemy from *Xue Daoguang, and on
the Thunder Rites (*leifa) from an immortal on Mount Limu (Limu shan ~
~~ ill ), on the outskirts of Qiongzhou m J'I'[ in Hainan. Qiongzhou is believed
to be the birthplace of *Bai Yuchan, the most illustrious of Chen's disciples.
In his preface to the Leiting aozhi ~ ~ ~ ~ (Arcane Purport of the Thunder-
clap), found in the *Daofa huiyuan (Corpus of Taoist Ritual,j. 76), Bai claims
to have received that text from Chen in 1212 in the Luofu Mountains (*Luofu
shan, Guangdong). Elsewhere in the Daofa huiyuan (I08.15a- 16b), Bai Yuchan
reiterates that Chen received the Thunder Rites of theJingxiao leishu ~1lt§I
t=l. (Thunder Writ of the Effulgent Empyrean) in 1208, and transmitted them
to him four years later.
The only independent work by Chen Nan is the Cuixu pian .¥ mm (Folios of
the Master of Emerald Emptiness; CT 1090), a collection of prose and poems
in the *Wuzhen pian tradition compiled by Wang Sicheng .:E Jt!!, ~ before 1217.
The first two poem , entitled "Ziting jing" ~ DH~ (Scripture of the Purple
Court) and "Dadao ge" *~~ (Song of the Great Dao), are followed by the
"Luofu Cuixu yin" r.I r$ ¥ m fit (Chant by the Master of Emerald Emptiness
of the Luofu Mountains), dedicated to Bai Yuchan and dated 1212. After a prose
essay entitled "Danji guiyi lun" f)-~~ - ~ (Essay on the Foundation of the
Elixir and on Returning to the One), the collection continues with three lyrics
in honor of Chen Nan's main disciples- JuJiusi m91L}t!!" Sha Daozhao 1j'~
8tl, and Bai Yuchan- and ends with the "Jindan shijue" ~f)- ~ifttk: (Instructions
in Verse on the Golden Elixir), a poem in one hundred heptasyllabic verses.
The *Xiuzhen shishu (Ten Books on the Cultivation of Perfection, j . 17)
includes some poems from the Cuixu pian, but wrongly attributes the text to
Chen Pu ~;fr (see also Chenxianshengneidanjue ~7'G1:I*Jf)-ttk:, CT 1096).
The authorship of the Cuixu pian was disputed by *Yu Yan, who believed it
to be a fabrication by Bai Yuchan (Xishangfutan f,!j';' ....tJ1jft~, Baoyan tang ed.,
2.2b).

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W BoltzJ. M. 1987a, 175; Chen Bing 1985, 37-38; van der Loon 1979, 402
* neidan; Nanzong