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Reign Period), the *Daozangxubian (Sequel to the Taoist Canon), the *Daozang
jinghua lu (Record of the Essential Splendors of the Taoist Canon), and the
*Daoshushi'er zhong(Twelve Books on the Dao). He has also added a number
of Taoist texts from *Dunhuang and from private libraries. Some materials
in the last category might well have come from temples in Sichuan, where
Xiao was forced to live from I939 to I949, and where his interest in Taoism
arose. One example is the Nu jindan fayao :9":~ft1t~ (Essentials of the
Methods of the Golden Elixir for Women; Wile I992, 202- 4), a text of *nudan
(inner alchemy for women) privately printed in Sichuan by *Fu Jinquan in
I8I4·
Xiao had a clear bias in favor of later works, especially those dealing with
*neidan. The most prominent authors in the collection are *Lu Xixing, *Wu
Shouyang, *Liu Yiming, Fu Jinquan, and *Li Xiyue, all of whom lived in the
late Ming or the Qing periods. Moreover, several works are related to *Zhang
Sanfeng, a neidan patron of the Ming period. The collection also includes
fourteen works by Xiao himself dealing with neidan and self-cultivation.
Besides the Daozangjinghua, Xiao published two collections under the title
Daozangjinghua waiji jlUi~Uff¥:Jr ~ (Essential Splendors of the Taoist Canon:
Additional Anthologies). The first is the Daojia yangshengxue gaiyao J!!*'ll
~~~~~ (Overview of the Taoist Nourishment of Life), published in I963,
and the second is the Daohai xuanwei J!! ~ ~ {~ (Mystery and Subtlety of the
Ocean of the Dao), published in 1974. In I958 Xiao had also published a work
entitled Zuodao pangmen xiaoshu jiyao ft J!! ~ p~ IH:fJ.iI!& ~ (Essentials of the
Minor Arts of the Heterodox Schools). Although Xiao defines this work as a
supplement to the Daozangjinghua, he did not publish it under his own name
but used a sobriquet, Taiyi shanren "* G LlJ A (The Mountain Man of Great
Unity), and did not list it in the table of contents of the I983 edition. This may
be due to the book's subject matter, which deals with unconventional practices
and includes two texts on nudan.

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m Chen W Y. I984; Gong Qun I995; Xiao Tianshi 1983; Zhu Yueli 1992,
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