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in response to the expanded bodhisattva path presented in the Buddhist Huayan
and the indigenous Pusa yingluo benye jing ::g: r~ J~ J()-* ~ #.~ (Scripture of the
Original Acts that Serve as Necklaces for the Bodhisattvas; T. 1485). Tang-period
citations of the Haikong show that it once boasted a fifty-two stage path, in-
cluding ten stages of faith, ten abodes, ten practices, ten goals, ten cycles, and
two stages resulting in the full status of Celestial Worthy. Having expounded
on this elaborate path, the scripture goes on at length to de construct it. In the
remainder of the scripture, the Celestial Worthy develops the idea that one
might, through wisdom, break through chains of causation to realize one's
inherent unity with the Dao.
Stephen R. BOKENKAMP

III Bokenkamp r990; Kamata Shigeo 1968, 82-ror; Nakajima Ryuzo 198r;
Sunayama Minoru r990, 305-24; Yamada Takashi 1999,370-93
~ Lingbao; TAOISM AND CHINESE BUDDHISM

Han tianshi shijia

Lineage of the Han Celestial Master

Three prominent Celestial Master patriarchs of the Ming are responsible for
the compilation of this biographical account of the *Zhengyi lineage centered
on Mount Longhu (*Longhu shan,Jiangxi). The forty-second Celestial Master
*Zhang Zhengchang (r335-78) initiated the work. His son, the forty-third
Celestial Master *Zhang Yuchu (1361-1410), prepared it for publication and the
fiftieth Celestial Master *Zhang Guoxiang (?-r6n) enlarged the text, adding
biographies for patriarchs of the forty-second to forty-ninth generation to the
original collection of forty-one accounts.
The first chapter of the four-juan copy of the text in the *Wanli xu daozang
(Supplementary Taoist Canon of the Wanli Reign Period) of 1607 (CT 1463)
contains five prefaces. Zhang Zhengchang invited the esteemed literatus Song
Lian *71 (r31O-8r) to submit a preface to a Shijia in one juan. Song provides a
lengthy introduction to the Celestial Master hierarchy in his preface of 1376 and
traces the ancestry of the first patriarch *Zhang Daoling to *Zhang Liang (?-r87
BCE), celebrated confidant of Han Gaozu (r. 202-195 BC E). Another literatus,
Su Boheng 1i 1(l ~ (fl. r360-82; DMB 1214-15), composed what initially served
as a postface in 1390 at the behest of Wuwei zi 1!\f;:(.~ (- (Master of Non-action),
i.e., Zhang Yuchu. The three remaining prefaces date from r593 to 1597 and
are the contributions of Wang Dexin I {!fJ!, ifJT, Yu Wenwei Pfttr)( 1¥, and Zhou