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Lu Guolong 1994). Then came Meng Zhizhou £ 9in Ftj (Qing Xitai 1994, I:
255), who lived during the reign of Liang Wudi (r. 502-49). In a passage of
his lost commentary, quoted in the *Daojiao yishu (Pivot of Meaning of the
Taoist Teaching, 5.1a-3a), Meng interprets the Three Ones by applying the
same dialectic used by the Chongxuan school in dealing with the notion of
Mystery. Under the same dynasty also lived Zang Xuanjing :r~ ~ ¥l'J (fl. mid-
sixth century), who taught the *Shangqing patriarch *Wang Yuanzhi (528-635)
and may have been Cheng Xuanying's master. The school reached its apogee
in the Tang period with eminent Taoists such as Liu Jinxi ~~:ii:g (ca. 560-ca.
640), to whom the first five chapters of the *Benji jing (Scripture of the Origi-
nal Bound) are ascribed, and who also wrote two essays on Laozi and a lost
commentary to the Daode jingo
Another major Chongxuan thinker is Cheng Xuanying who, in 647, trans-
lated the Daode jing into Sanskrit with Xuanzang i,. ~t (ca. 602-64) and Cai
Huang ~~ ~, also a member of this school (Pelliot 1912). Cheng's exegesis of
the *Yijing is now lost, but his commentaries to the Daode jing and the *Duren
jing (Scripture on Salvation), and his subcommentary to *Guo Xiang's com-
mentary to the Zhuangzi are extant. Chen's younger contemporary, *Li Rong (fl.
658-63), wrote a lost commentary to the Zhuangzi and an extant commentary
to the Daode jingo The Chongxuan school also influenced other Tang Taoist
texts such as the Daojiao yishu, and Song commentators of the Daode jing such
as Shao Ruoyu i'fIl-i'L~ (fl. II59) and Zhao Shi' an m. Mt.
Isabelle ROBINET

rn Fujiwara Takao 1961a; Kohn 1991a, 190-96; Kohn 1992a, 139-46; Lu Guolong
1993; RenJiyu 1990, 249-64; Robinet 1977, 96-203; Robinet 1997b, 194-95; Sharf
2002, 52-71; Sunayama Minoru 1990, 188-2II; Yu Shiyi 2000
* Cheng Xuanying; Li Rong; xuan; TAOISM AND CHINESE BUDDHISM

Chongyang lijiao shiwu lun

Fifteen Essays by [Wang] Chongyang
to Establish His Teaching

The Chongyang lijiao shiwu lun (CT 1233) is a very short treatise on Taoist life
in fifteen sections: I. Retreat in a Hermitage; 2. Travelling as an Errant Reli-
gious; 3. Studying Texts; 4. Preparing Medicines; 5. Mastering Carpentry; 6.
Forming Religious Communities; 7. Meditation; 8. Firm Control of the Mind;
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