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Guwen longhu shangjing zhu 71)c~~mL#~:tt (Commentary to the Ancient
Text of the Superior Scripture of the Dragon and Tiger; CT 997), contains
anonymous and undated annotations. Wang Ming (1984g, 279-83) has shown
that the Guwen longhu jing corresponds to the text entitledJindan jinbi qiantong
jue ~ft~~m~tf}c (Golden and Jasper Instructions on the Golden Elixir for
Pervading the Unseen) in the *Yunji qiqian (7Pb- nb). The Jinbi jing I Guwen
longhu jing is a shorter paraphrase of the Can tong qi, although less refined from
a literary point of view and more replete with typical alchemical language
than the Cantong qi.
Quotations from the Longhu jing in Tang and early Song sources show that
Longhu jing was until that time an alternative title of the Cantong qi. TheJinbi
jing was originally a distinct but related text, referred to by some authors as
Qiantongjue (hence its title in the Yunji qiqian). In the Song, theJinbijing came
to represent the "authentic" text of the Longhu jing, a scripture kept in Heaven,
of which the Cantong qi is the terrestrial complement.
Fabrizio PREGADIO

IIJ Wang Ming I984g, 279-83; Wong Eva 1997 (trans.)
* longhu; neidan

Longhu shan

Mount Longhu Uiangxi)

Longhu shan, or Mount of the Dragon and Tiger, is a chain of low hills in
the Guixi .1~ district of easternJiangxi, connected to the *Wuyi shan range
extending into Fujian province. The various temples and residences that make
up Longhu shan as an institution are actually spread over a rather large area
and located either on the hills or in nearby villages. The site has been included
in lists of sacred Taoist spots since the Tang period, but its real Significance
lies in its being indissolubly linked to the destiny of a Zhang * family from
the Longhu shan area, which emerged between the eighth and ninth centuries
as heirs of *Zhang Daoling.
Whether this family's claim of direct descent from the Zhangs who founded
the Way of the Celestial Masters (*Tianshi dao) during the late second century
CE is true is neither verifiable nor very likely, but in any case, by the Song period
it came to be widely validated by imperial, Taoist, and popular opinion. The
family's notion that the title of Celestial Master (*tianshi) conferred by Laozi