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I~~) ~ [g tt ; CT 87, 2.68a). Xue Youqi Ft ~ fJ.t (fl. 740- 54) adds that its sound
can be heard as far away as the Palace of the Great Ultimate (Taiji gong "* *j
'[2;). "Its light illuminates a distance of one thousand li; reaching the bounds
of ten thousand li, its light shines all around, and reaching the bounds of the
eight directions, it smashes [the demons]. Therefore the Real Men (*zhenren)
always control demon essences with it" (id., 2.68a- b).
In later Taoism, various techniques centering on the huoling were devised
and employed, including talismans (*pu), spells, mudras (*shoujue), and the
method of "walking along the guideline" (*bugang). Detailed descriptions of
these techniques are found in such texts as the *Daofa huiyuan (Corpus of
Taoist Ritual) and the *Shangqing lingbao dafa (Great Rites of the Numinous
Treasure of Highest Clarity; CT 1222- 23).
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* faqi

Huoshan

MountHuo

The name Huoshan, which Edward Schafer described as "an unstable and
floating name," refers to several different mountain sites in China. In the earli-
est sources, Huoshan seems to refer to a mountain located in Shanxi province
(Kleeman 1994C, 227), but by the second through the fourth century CE sources
show that there was much confusion regarding the many mountains identi-
fied with the name Huoshan (see, for example, the "Shishan" ~ ill chapter of
the Erya ~m [Literary LexiconJ and Guo Pu's $~~ [276-324J commentary).
The issue of the location of Huoshan was further confused when Han Wudi
(r. 141- 87 BCE) changed the mountain with the title *Nanyue (Southern Peak)
from Mount Heng (*Hengshan 11ff ill , Hunan) to Huoshan (also referred to
as Tianzhu shan 7(t1 ill , Anhui; see Kong Yingda's =JLlFJU! [574-{)48J com-
mentary to the "Songgao" ~ ~J ode in the Shijing ~ ~) .
In Taoist sources, however, Huoshan is primarily connected either with
the mountain in Anhui province or with a mountain in Fujian province.
Taoist sources refer to a "Greater Mount Huo" (Da Huoshan *~ ill) and a
"Lesser Mount Huo" (Xiao Huoshan IJ\{\g ill ). According to Michel Strick-
m ann, "Greater Mount Huo" was taken to be the "real" or "true" Southern