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supplementary blocks, the total came to 83,198. Sun convened fellow clergy-
men to organize the texts according to the Three Caverns (*SANDONG) and
Four Supplements (sifu 12] 'l1fH). The compilation that resulted comprised 6,455
juan and was given the title Da Jin Xuandu baozang. The inspiration for this
title may be traced to the Buxu jing it: EiIt #~ (Scripture on Pacing the Void) of
the *Lingbao corpus, which locates Xuandu -g tfll in a celestial realm high
above the Three Clarities (*sanqing). Copies of this new Canon were report-
edly offered as imperial gifts on occasion. Nothing printed in it seems to have
survived. The blocks from which it was cut were presumably lost with the
destruction of the Tianchang guan after the arrival of the Mongols in 1215.
Judith M. BOLTZ

m Ch en Guofu 1963, 156-61; van der Loon 1984, 45-47 and 50; Zhu Yueli 1992,
150-52
~ DAOZANG AND SUBSIDIARY COMPILATIONS

Da Song Tiangong baozang

Precious Canon of the Celestial Palace of the Great Song

This canon of 1016 evolved as a revised, enlarged version of an earlier effort
initiated by Song Taizong (r. 976-97). Like Tang Xuanzong (r. 712-56), Song
Taizong ordered a comprehensive search for Taoist writings. In 990, he put
his Policy Adviser Xu Xuan 1;f;~ (917-92) in charge of a team of collators. An
eminent Taoist Master named Zhang Qizhen ~~~ (936-1006) is known to
have been among the clergy selected for this task by their respective Metropoli-
tan Registrars. A collection of over 7,000 juan was thereby reduced to a canon
totalling 3,737 juan for copying and distribution to major temple compounds.
Work on its successor began under Song Zhenzong (r. 997-1022).
By the late summer of 1009, ten Taoist masters who had been sent to the
capital to work on liturgical reform were selected in turn to produce a new
recension of the canon. The next year this enterprise fell under the aegis of
the imperial library, the Chongwen yuan ~ y-I))t (Institute for the Venera-
tion of Literature). Song Zhenzong had his Minister of Rites *Wang Qinruo
(962-1025) oversee the project. Wang submitted a catalogue of the new canon
to the emperor in April of 1016. Song Zhenzong composed a preface and gave
it the title Baowen tonglu Wx#.lYEw~ (Comprehensive Register of Precious
Literature). A search list for the imperial library issued in II45 alternatively