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9. Refining One's Nature; 10. Pairing the Five Pneumas (wuqi .li*t, i.e., those
of the *wuxing); II. Merging Inner Nature and Destiny (*xing and ming); 12 .
Sagely Way; 13. Transcending the Three Realms (sanjie = w); 14. Methods for
Nourishing the Self; and 15. LeavingThis World.
Although scholarly publications and translations into Western languages
,
have made this work famous, its value as a source on the early history of
*Quanzhen is rather limited. The title suggests that it was written by *Wang
Zhe (III3- 70) to summarize his predication, but there is no evidence to strongly
support this attribution: the work is neither mentioned in any of several
Yuan-period biographies of Wang, which are otherwise very detailed, nor is it
quoted in any early Quanzhen work. The text, however, is generally consistent
with Quanzhen rhetorics, which tends to add purely abstract meanings to the
common religious vocabulary, and with the Quanzhen ideals of service to
society and an austere life devoted to *neidan practices.
Vincent GOOSSAERT

W BoltzJ. M. I987a, 148; Kohn I993b, 86- 92 (trans.); Qing Xitai 1994, 2: Il7-18;
Reiter 1984- 85 (trans.); Yao Tao-chung 1980, 73- 86 (trans.)
~ Wang Zhe; Quanzhen

Chongyang Quanzhen ji

Anthology on the Completion of Authenticity,
by [Wang] Chongyang

This thirteen-juan poetic anthology (CT II53) is the largest repository of *Wang
Zhe's (Wang Chongyang, III3-70) literary production. It contains 1,009 texts,
consisting of regulated poems (shi ~), lyrics (ci ~jj]), songs (ge ~), and a few
prose works written for *Quanzhen lay associations (hui fr; see *TAOIST LAY
ASSOCIATIONS). Some poems are duplicated, others are also extant in shorter
anthologies-notably the Jiaohua ji lJj( it ~ (Anthology of Religious Conver-
sions; CT II54)-and a few were carved on stone in monasteries founded by
Wang's disciples. Beyond this information, the textual history of the Chong-
yang Quanzhen ji is obscure. It seems to have been part of a larger collection
now lost, and its present version was edited by disciples of *Ma Yu, Wang's
favorite disciple, in n88.
The textual history of the *Minghe yuyin, another work including some
of Wang's poetry, shows that poems of Taoist inspiration (daoqing jlHw;