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Upper Chapters on Salvation; CT 87), compiled by *ChenJingyuan (?-I094).
In addition to Yan's commentary, this work includes portions of commentar-
ies by *Cheng Xuanying (fl. 63I-SO), Xue Youqi f,i ~~I f:~ (fl. 740-S4; Qing Xitai
1994, I: 280-81), and Li Shaowei $= 0' i~~ (fl. 62S?). All of these commentaries
draw on the earliest "commentary" on the Duren jing, the explanations of
the deity August One of Heavenly Perfection (Tianzhen huangren *~~
A) found in the Lingbao scripture Zhutian neiyin ziran yuzi ;~ *- I*J if FI ?t.Cf
* (The Self-Generating Jade Graphs and Inner Sounds of All the Heavens;
CT 97). While Yan's commentary was likely composed for fellow Taoists, the
Tang-period commentaries were prompted by the adoption of the Duren jing
as topic for the officially-sanctioned ordination examinations. The fact that
terminology from the "secret language" regularly found its way into secular
poetry provides further evidence of the popularity of the scripture during the
Tang period.
During the Song, a sixty-one chapter version of the Duren jing was pre-
sented by *Lin Lingsu to the Taoist emperor Huizong (r. nOO-II2S) as part
of the Shenxiao corpus. But the new, expanded version of the scripture did
not eclipse the ritual use of the original Durenjing, which is still today widely
recited in Taoist ritual.

Stephen R. BOKENKAMP
m Bokenkamp 1983, 461-6S; Bokenkamp 1997,373-438 (trans.); BoltzJ. M. 1987a,
206-n; Chen Guofu 1963, 71-72; Kamitsuka Yoshiko 1996, 44-S0; Kamitsuka
Yoshiko 1999, 228-34, 398-404; Little 2000b, 246-47; Ofuchi Ninji 1978-79, I:
S2-S9 (crit. notes on the Dunhuang ms.) and 2: 64-70 (reprod. of the Dunhuang
ms.); Strickmann 1978b; Sunayama Minoru 1984
* Lingbao

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