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LlNGBAO LlNGJIAO JIDU JINSHU

texts bestowed by the Transcendent Duke *Ge Xuan. These are styled "old"
and "new" respectively. Some scholars have taken this to refer to the order
in which the parts of the canon were actually composed. As the frequent
references to "old" texts and manuals of practice found in the first part of the
scriptures shows, however, the terms refer instead to the narrative structure
of the scriptures, denoting whether or not a text was "newly written" in our
own kalpa-cycle by Ge Xuan or revealed in previous eons by the Celestial
Worthy.
According to Lu's humbly worded preface, his promulgation of the scrip-
tures was timely. Recent textual revelations, culminating in those of *Zhang
Daoling and Ge Xuan, having moved the Most High, the prophesied rise of
the Liu Song dynasty (420-79) had now taken place. It was thus appropriate
that this unifying revelation be made known to all.
Many of the texts found in Lu's catalogue survive today. In the listing in table
16, those texts marked "unrevealed" are left unnumbered. When a surviving
version is given, it was produced after Lu's time.
Stephen R. BOKENKAMP

W Bokenkamp 2001; Kobayashi Masayoshi 1990, 138-85; Ofuchi Ninji 1974;
Ofuchi Ninji 1978-79, I: 365-68 (crit. notes on the Dunhuang mss.) and 2: 725-26,
726-34 (reprod. of the Dunhuang mss.); Ofuchi Ninji 1997, 75-88, 100-121

* Lu Xiujing; Lingbao

Lingbao lingjiao jidu jinshu

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Golden Writings for Deliverance by the Sect Leader of the Numi-
nous Treasure Tradition

This compendium (CT 466, with table of contents in CT 465) was edited
by Wenzhou rllllJH (Zhejiang) Taoist priests in the fourteenth century, and
reworked in early Ming times. It systematically presents the fullest version
of the *Lingbao dafa (Great Rites of the Numinous Treasure) tradition that
its editors claim was passed down by *Ning Benli (II01-81) on Mount Tiantai
(*Tiantai shan, Zhejiang). While claiming to transmit Ning Benli's teachings,
the present work was likely that of Lin Tianren ** 7C H (£1. 1303), who piously
credited his master Lin Weifu **1;$1: (1239-1302) with its compilation.
The text represents a strong effort to reconstitute the Lingbao dafa approach
to saving the dead for southern Chinese living under Mongol rule. Its 320 juan