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credits Wang with the Sandong sifu bujingmu = ifoJ 12] l\lm:g~#~ § (Catalogue of
the Scriptures Categorized in the Three Caverns and Four Supplements) in
seven juan. The catalogue of the older canon from which Wang's work was
derived in fact bore the title Sandong sifu jingmu .=: ifoJ 12] l\lm #~ § (Catalogue of
the Scriptures of the Three Caverns and Four Supplements).
A bibliographic postface surviving from the lost Sanchao guoshi = ljI)j ~ 5:
(State History of Three Reigns) of 1030 states that the Baowen tonglu accounted
for altogether 4,359 juan, but lists components totalling 4,350 juan: Dongzhen ifoJ
~ 620, Dongxuan ifoJ ~ I,0I3, Dongshen ifoJ *~ 172, Taixuan j( ~ 1,407, Taiping j(
.~ 192, Taiqing j( ~ 576, and Zhengyi lE ~ 370. Variant resources, moreover,
disagree on the number of juan deleted from and added to the old canon of
3,737 juan. Wang did convince the emperor to shift the Daode jing and *Yinfu jing
from the supplements to the opening component of Dongzhen and to include
the *Huahu jing that earlier had been excised by imperial decree because of its
provocative nature.
Sometime in late I0I5 or early IOI6, the Assistant Draftsman ZhangJunfang
*tt m (96I?- I042?) was sent to Yuhang ~ttL (Zhejiang) to oversee the copying
of the texts. Zhang writes in his preface to the *Yunji qiqian (ca. I028- 29) that
Zhu Yiqian *:ihl~ and Feng Dezhi {,\'!H~z were among the Taoist masters
lined up by the Yuhang Prefect Qi Lun fflZ%U (954-I02I) to serve as collators. It
was when Qi was transferred to a new post, according to Zhang, that he was
then put in charge, on the endorsement of both the Prefect himself and Wang
Qinruo. The incomplete classification of texts at the time, Zhang claims, led
him to draw on collections of Taoist writings from Suzhou (Jiangsu), Yuezhou
~ j'I'1 (Zhejiang), and Taizhou El j+l (Zhejiang), as well as Manichaean scriptures
found in the Fuzhou (Fujian) region. The final product, by his count, totalled
4,565 juan and was entitled Da Song Tiangong baozang. Seven sets, Zhang states,
were presented to the emperor by the spring of IOI9. Wang Qinruo is known
to have petitioned the emperor four years earlier to authorize the imperial
library to produce fifteen copies of the new canon for distribution to temples.
By I0I8, Song Zhenzong himself had already presented a copy on request to
the ruler of Jiaozhi X ~ll: (present-day Vietnam). Several temples in the far
west of what is now Sichuan province, however, did not receive copies of the
canon until after a special petition had been submitted in I064. The successor
to this hand-copied collection of Taoist texts is the *Zhenghe Wanshou daozang,
the first Taoist Canon to be produced as a woodcut printing.
Judith M. BOLTZ

m Chen Guofu 1963, 130- 46; van der Loon 1984, 4-6, 29-39, and 74; Lu Ren-
long 1990
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