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the commentary to *Tao Hongjing's *Zhenling weiye tu (Chart of the Ranks
and Functions of the Perfected Numinous Beings) listed under his name. He
received a biography in *Xu xianzhuan (Sequel to Biographies of Immortals),
from which the information below is taken.
A student of Chen Yuanwu I~Jl:H{f of Mount Lu (*Lushan, jiangxi) , Zuo
Yuanze k 5l: i* of Xianglin fi' ** (Zhejiang), and Liu Chujing %,IJ ~ liltl of
Mount Xiandu (Xiandu shan {Ill ffll I lJ , Zhejiang), at 34 he received the Dharma
Registers from Ye Zangzhi ~ ~~ is: of the Yuxiao gong ]£ 1ft '§ (Palace of the
jade Empyrean) on Mount Tiantai (*Tiantai shan, Zhejiang). Summoned to
court repeatedly by Zhaozong (r. 888-904), he divined that the Tang throne
would be overthrown so refused to go. He was nonetheless honored by the
emperor and granted a title. He is said to have had over 200 disciples most of
whom were active in the lower Yangzi area, as Uiqiu was himself. He under-
went corpse-liberation (*shijie) in 902 and was typically seen later in some of
his favorite haunts.
Benjamin PENNY

m Qing Xitai 1994, I: 293
* Taipingjing

Lushan

Mount Lu (Jiangxi)

Mount Lu is a picturesque mountain injiangxi that has been historically impor-
tant for both Buddhists and Taoists, and has also been admired by generations
of landscape painters (Bush 1983). Its highest peak rises to 1,474 m and it is the
site of the eighth lesser Grotto-Heaven (*dongtian). The mountain is perhaps
best known for its associations with local cults (Miyakawa Hisayuki 1979), the
White Lotus Society (Bai lianhua she El ~*f±) of the Buddhist Huiyuan ~
ill (334-416; Inoue Ichii 1934; Zurcher 1972, 204-39), and the White Deer Grotto
(Bailu dong B;re:iFoJ) of Zhu Xi 7/( ~ (II30-I200; Inoue Ichii 1933).
Besides these distinguishing features, Mount Lu has also had a long and
important Taoist history. It was considered to be one of the repositories of the
revealed *Shangqing manuscripts, and in 481 emperor Gaodi (r. 479-82) sent
an envoy there to procure copies. In 461, *Lu Xiujing (406-77) built an abbey
there. Later, the mountain was included on a set of charts accompanying the
Wuyue guben zhenxing tu Ji ~ ~ -* ~ % iI (Ancient Version of the Charts of