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in other texts. Du's *Yongchengjixian lu (Records of the Immortals Gathered
in the Walled City; CT 783, and YJQQ II4- 16, six juan, originally ten) contains
hagiographies of women only (Yongcheng :lfrlI~ was the residence of the
Queen Mother of the West on Mount *Kunlun). The extant version contains
accounts of thirty-five figures ranging from the mother of Laozi, the Queen
Mother of the West and her divine daughters, to tavern owners.
Lastly, Du Guangting assembled several collections of accounts on miracles
and other supernatural phenomena. The largest of them was the *Daojiao
lingyan ji (Records of the Nurninous Efficacy of the Taoist Teaching) that
consists of material relevant only to Taoism. His Shenxian ganyu zhuan fEIl1tlJ
~~ 1W (Biographies of Those who Encountered Immortals; CT 592, five
juan, originally ten), completed after 904, consists of episodes in the lives of
people from all walks of life who meet extraordinary figures in abbeys, on the
road, in the mountains, and elsewhere. They are not all immortals: some are
old men or women, priests, hermits, and the like. When encountered, those
exceptional individuals transmit texts, interpretations of arcane scriptures,
the secrets of immortality, and prophecies among other things. Du's Luyi ji
~ ~)3c (Records of the Extraordinary; CT 591, eight juan, originally ten),
completed between 921 and 925, is a collection of lore concerning immortals,
extraordinary men, the loyal, the filial, responses from the gods, remarkable
dreams, demons and spirits, dragons, animals (tigers, tortoises, snakes, and
fish), grottoes, waters (rivers, springs, pools, ete.) rocks, and tombs. Much of
the material is irrelevant to Taoism.
Charles D. BENN

m Barrett 1996,94-98; Bell 1987C; BoltzJ. M. 1987a, 129-31; Matsumoto K6ichi
1983, 216- 18; Qing Xitai 1988- 95, 2: 421- 77; Schafer and Yee 1986; Sunayama
Minoru 1990, 416-43; Verellen 1989
* Daojiao lingyan ji; Daomen kefan da quanji; Lidai chongdao ji; Yongchengjixian
lu; TAOISM A 0 THE STATE

dUjiang

chief cantor

Among *Zhengyi Taoists in modern Taiwan, rituals are performed by a
group basically consisting of five people: the high priest (gaogong iWi Jj]; see
*daozhang), the chief cantor, the assistant cantor ifujiang iliUm/i), the leader of