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open locks, levitate the body one-hundred feet, make one invisible, and cause
trees to blossom in the winter among other things. The last register (I6b- 24b)
has eleven talismans. It possesses powers to call down spirits to perform vari-
ous tasks. One of them with a white face, one eye and no nose knows where
runaway slave can be found. Another-a woman clad in black, carrying pears
and riding a jackass-can cure suppurating sores and blindness. The *Jinsuo
liuzhu yin (Guide to the Golden Lock and the Flowing Pearls) has also been
attributed to Li Chunfeng, but current research indicates that the text was
compiled after his death.

Charles D. BENN
ID Barrett I990; Needham I959, passim; Qing Xitai I988-95, 2: 306-IO; Strick-
mann I996, 232-36
* Jinsuo liuzhu yin

Li Daochun

fl. 1288-92; zi: Yuansu 7t*; haD: Qing'an :m Jf@; (Clear Hermitage),
Yingchan zi ~~.':f (Master of the Shining Toad)

Li Daochun, who came from Duliang 1\f~~ (Hunan), was the abbot of the
Changsheng guan ~1:!g (Abbey of Long Life) in Yizhen f~~ (Jiangsu)
and a *daoshi in Xuyi Ht ~ (Jiangsu). Not much is known of his life. He was a
disciple of WangJinchan x 1tr ~ , who in turn had studied under *Bai Yuchan.
According to a work compiled by Cai Zhiyi ~ it I2Ji (fl. 1288-I306) and other
disciples, the Qing' an Yingchan zi yulu ~j;\f Jf@; ~ ~.':f ~g ~ (Recorded Sayings of
[Li] Qing'an, Master of the Shining Toad; CT I060), he also lived on Mount
Mao (*Maoshan, Jiangsu) and in Yangzhou 1~Hi'I (Jiangsu).
Li wrote three independent works and five commentaries to earlier texts:
I. *Zhongheji (Anthology of Central Harmony; CT 249)
2. Santian yisui = *- J); M1 (The Mutable Marrow of the Three Heavens;
CT 250), containing brief notes on the Hrdaya-sutra (Heart Sutra) and
the *Yinjit jing
3· Quanzhen jixuan biyao :i: JUI~ 'E ~,~ (Collected Mysteries and Secret
Essentials of Quanzhen; CT 25I)
4· Daode huiyuan :ii'!1: 1f.lW 7t (Returning to the Origin of the Dao and Its
Virtue; CT 699; Qing Xitai I994, 2: I07-9)