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264-68. *Fengdu ritual manuals, compiled or annotated in part by Lu Ye
1Ift~ , master of Liu Yu.
Judith M. BOLTZ
ID Boltz J. M. I987a, 39- 41 and 47-49; van der Loon 1979; van der Loon 1984,
63; Schipper 1987
* leifa; Lingbao dafa; neidan; Qingwei; Shenxiao

daojia

Taoism; "Lineage(s) of the Way"

See entry in "Taoism: An Overview," p. 5.

daojiao

Taoism; Taoist teaching; "Teaching(s) of the Way"

See entry in "Taoism: An Overview," p. 8.

Daojiao lingyan ji

Records of the Numinous Efficacy of the Taoist Teaching

The Daojiao lingyan ji, compiled by *Du Guangting (85C>-933) in 905 or shortly
thereafter, is the sole surviving example of a literary genre devoted to relating
miracles that attested to the efficacy of faith in Taoism. Two earlier compila-
tions of the same sort, completed between 600 and 710, have apparently perished
without a trace. Most of the material in Du's work dates from the eighth and
ninth centuries so he probably took little from those earlier texts.
There are two versions of the Daojiao lingyan ji in the Taoist Canon: an
independent work (CT 590) and a collection of excerpts from an early edition
of it in the *Yunji qiqian 0· II7-22). The former includes 169 episodes, but is