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GUO GANG FENG

affairs, and prediction of the future. A work on physiognomy called Mingshu
-6fl:jjf (Book of Destiny) appeared, appropriating the name of Guigu zi, and
a commentary by Li Xuzhong * & r:p of the Tang period also exists.

SAKADE Yoshinobu
III Qing Xitai 1994, 3: 70 - 71; Sa to Hitoshi 1958; Takeuchi Yoshio 1929; Xiao
Dengfu 1984

* HAGIOGRAPHY

GUizhong zhinan

Guide to Peering into the Center

The full title of this two-chapter text on *neidan (CT 243; *Daozangjiyao, vol.
16) is Chen Xubai guizhong zhinan ~m El m r:p t§'l¥i, referring to its author,
the Yuan dynasty master of alchemy from the Wuyi mountains (*Wuyi shan,
Fujian), Chen Chongsu 1~ln9=t ~ , who resided near the area's Grotto-Heaven
(*dongtian). The first chapter gives a systematic nine-stage account of neidan
practice, with each stage encapsulated by a diagram, explanatory essay, and
song. The second chapter presents the "three essentials" (sanyao .=.JD of
neidan, discussing in refined language how to identifY the mysterious locus of
the body's vital energies, isolate the various components of the inner elixir,
and visualize their circulation and refinement. While relying on the legacy of
*Zhang Boduan (987?- I082) as the core of his commentary, Chen also quotes
from the writings of the *Quanzhen master *Ma Yu (II23- 84).
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* neidan

Guo Gangfeng

twelfth / thirteenth century

The dates of Guo Gangfeng's birth and death are unclear, and hardly anything
is known about his life. His textual notes and a final "Eulogy" C"Zan" 1'!) to the