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they begin, and make an offering (jiao) to please Heaven" (CT 900, 2b). This
work further stipulates that the Chamber of the Elixir (danshi ft '¥:, i.e., the
alchemical "laboratory") be built on a site where Wood (one of the *wuxing)
predominates and that it be quiet and secluded. Moreover, "unsuitable are
places where the cries of fowl and the barking of dogs, the weeping of people,
the swift current of water, or the sound of carts and horses passing by can be
heard, or execution grounds" (id., 3a).
*Neidan adepts observed taboos similar to those of waidan; a description
is found in the Biyao juefa f,t'~~:R~* (Secret and Essential Instructions and
Methods; YJQQ 45).

SAKADE Yoshinobu
Ill! Asano Haruji 1999a; Ding Changyun 1999; Qing Xitai 1994, 3: 3II-12

* jiao;jie [preceptsJ; zhai; waidan

Jinlian zhengzongji

Records of the Correct Lineage of the Golden Lotus

As attested by mentions in bibliographic catalogues of the Ming and Qing
periods, the Jinlian zhengzong ji (CT 173) is one of the most popular Taoist
hagiographic works of the last six centuries. It was written in 1241 by the
*Quanzhen master Qin Zhi' an ~ ii!:~ '!i: (II88-1244) for inclusion in the *Xuandu
baozang, the Taoist Canon of 1244 whose chief compilers were *Song Defang
and his disciple Qin Zhi' an himself. Since very few Quanzhen works seem
to have been added to this edition of the Canon, the relatively short Jinlian
zhengzongji had the important task of conveying the official self-image of the
Quanzhen order.
The expressionjinlian ~Ji (Golden Lotus) in the title refers to a dream
*Wang Zhe had of a golden lotus with seven buds, which foretold his seven
disciples and the future development of his predication. The work consists of
fourteen biographies, namely those of the Five Patriarchs (wuzu n f£l.), the
Seven Real Men (qizhen -lA; see table 17), and two early disciples of Wang
Zhe in Shaanxi. The Five Patriarchs here are Donghua dijun 5$[ * $:E (Impe-
rial Lord of Eastern Florescence, a *Shangqing deity given a new role by the
Quanzhen order; see under *Wang Xuanfu); the three companion immortals
*Zhongli Quan, *Lii Dongbin, and *Liu Haichan; and Wang Zhe. The Seven
Real Men are *Ma Yu, *Tan Chuduan, *Liu Chuxuan, *Qiu Chuji, *Wang