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Scriptures in Three Chapters); the Cantongjing ~ liij#.'li (Scripture on the
Equality of the Three l Teachings J); the Shengde jing ~~ 1:5 *~ (Scriptures on the
Virtues of the Saints) which includes the *nudan text entitled Kunyuan jing 1$:IT;
*~ (Scripture of the Original Female); and the Xingxinjing ~JI!{.'*q( (Scripture
on Awakening the Mind). Most of these works are also found in the Daozang
jiyao with differences in form and content. They mainly consist of teachings
allegedly transmitted by Lii Dongbin via spirit writing during the Kangxi
reign (1662-1722) in Linjiang ~~i; i [ (Jiangxi), in Kanjiang Tll i r (Hunan), and
especially in the Hansan gong. Poems written in this temple are also found
in this portion of the Luzu quanshu under the title Hansan zayong rEfi ~-:: ~fH*
(Assorted Chants from the Palace Encompassing the Three) and Hansan yulu
1ffJ ~ ~fr ~* (Recorded Sayings from the Palace Encompassing the Three).
The remaining five juan contain the Xiuzhen chuandao lun {I~ J'-l: {W j]! ~ (Essay
on the Cultivation of Perfection and the Transmission of the Dao; an alter-
native title of the *Zhong-Lu chuandao ji), the commentaries to the Qiaoyao ge
~ -J:. llf'A (Songs Metered According to the Hexagram Lines) by Qian Daohua
~j]!~ (fl. 1443) and on the Qinyuan chun by Xiao Tingzhi :i'Mz (fl. 1260-64)
and *Yu Yan (I258-1314)-which are also found in the *Xiuzhen shishu (CT 263;
13.9b-17b) and the Qinyuan chun danci zhujie 1-l} I'm 'fi -Pt ~P] tt ffl¥ (Commentary
and Explication of the Alchemical Lyric Qinyuan chun; CT 136)-and the Luzu
gao § 1£1. ~~ (Declarations by Ancestor Lii).
These materials make the Luzu quanshu a fundamental source for the study
of the cult of Lii Dongbin and the spirit-writing practices in his honor during
Ming and Qing times.
Monica ESPOSITO

m Ang 1997; Baldrian-Hussein 1986,141-44; BoltzJ. M. 1987a, 139-43; Esposito
1998c; Katz P. R. 1996; Ma Xiaohong 1988a; Ma Xiaohong 1988b; Ma Xiaohong
1989a; Ma Xiaohong 1989b; Mori Yuria 1990; Mori Yuria 1992a; Mori Yuria 1998;
You Zi' an 1999, 55-58
* Lii Dongbin