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recipes. Zheng Boqian mentions three other works, all of which are lost: the
Lisheng pian fL ~m (Folios on Establishing Sainthood), the Xianwei zhiyan ~Ji
i)\&m;i§ (Words Streaming from the Heart of [Chen] Xianwei), and the Baoyi
zi shu :rE! - Tit: (Writings of the Master Who Embraces The One).

Fabrizio PREGADIO

* neidan

Chen Yingning

fl>Ttj~ ~

1880- 1969; zi: Zixiu T{~

Chen Yingning was born in Huaining '11 $ (Anhui) into a middle-class family.
After graduating at the end of the Qing dynasty, at the age of twenty-five he
entered the Anhui Institute of Legal and Political Studies (Anhui zhengfa
xuetang 12t~il$(~*¥:) . His feeble and unhealthy constitution, however, led
him to develop an interest in medicine and longevity techniques. From the
age of twenty-eight, he began to travel to mountains looking for Buddhist
and, later, Taoist masters. After spending three years at the Baiyun guan B ~
ti (Abbey of the White Clouds) in Shanghai to study Taoist texts, he became
a physician. From 1933 to 1937 he published a bimonthly magazine, Yangshan
kan ~~f!j (Journal for the Promotion of Goodness), and from 1939 to 1941
a monthly magazine, Xianxue {W * (Studies on Immortality). In 1957 he was
elected secretary and vice president of the Chinese Taoist Association (*Zhong-
guo daojiao xiehui), and in 1961 he became its president.
A specialist of *waidan and *neidan, Chen Yingning wrote several well-
known works, including a commentary to the *Huangting jing (Scripture of
the Yellow Court), a commentary to poems attributed to *Sun Bu'er (matri-
arch of the *Quanzhen school), and a history of Taoism. Selections from his
works and his correspondence with disciples, especially female, are collected
in Zhonghua xianxue $ ~ {W * (Chinese Studies on Immortality; Xu Boying
and YuanJiegui 1976).
Catherine DESPEUX

III Li Yangzheng 2000, 200- 205 and passim; Qing Xitai 1988-95, 4: 375- 41 5;
Qing Xitai 1994, I: 403-4
* neidan; Zhongguo daojiao xiehui; TAO ISM IN THE PEO PLE' S REPUBLIC OF
CHINA