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Taoist Canon of 1445. No evidence has yet been uncovered to indicate that
the Duren jing in this form served as the opening text of the *Zhenghe Wanshou
daozang (Taoist Canon of the Ten-Thousand-Fold Longevity of the Zhenghe
Reign Period) printed in 1II9. Statements in a commentary to the Duren jing
by *Chen Zhixu (1290-after 1335) do imply that the scripture was given prece-
dence in the *Xuandu baozang (Precious Canon of the Mysterious Metropolis)
completed in 1244.
Among notable works cited at the close of this Shenxiao formulary is
Huizong's commentary to the Daode jing, cited according to the title decreed
on the xinwei '* * day of the twelfth lunar month in the sixth year of the
Zhenghe reign period (16 January IIq). Conspicuous by its absence from the
inventory of texts here is the collective commentary to the Duren jing that
Huizong authorized in II24. Additional works dating to Huizong's reign that
do gain mention are ritual codes submitted by imperial order ca. 1110 by Zhang
Shangying 5& i¥ff 1Ji: (1043-II21). The gradual conveyance of a complete canon of
secret texts in 1,200 juan by three hosts of transcendents is promised following
the cyclical dates renchen andgengzi ~T (the thirty-seventh of the sexagesimal
cycle). The same two dates, presumably alluding to the years 1II2 and II20,
are also mentioned as a time of scriptural revelation in a commentary to the
Duren jing ascribed to Huizong. Reference to the latter date implies that such
texts emerged after Lin Lingsu fell out of favor at court in III9 and thus are
likely to have been devised by a later generation, such as his disciple *Wang
Wenqing (I093- II53).
Judith M. BOLTZ
m Boltz J. M. 1987a, 26-27; van der Loon 1984, 39 and 134; Strickmann 1978b

* Shenxiao

Ge Chaofu

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Ge Chaofu, a native of Jurong 1:i]?6 (near Nanjing,Jiangsu) and grandnephew
of *Ge Hong, is credited in several early sources with the first transmission
of the *Lingbao scriptures outside the Ge family, around 400 CB. According
to the earliest of these sources, a colophon once appended to the Zhenyi ziran
jing Ja - § ~ ~~ (Self-Generated Scripture of Perfect Unity) and cited in the
*Daojiao yishu (Pivot of Meaning of the Taoist Teaching), the earthly lineage