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these techniques practiced by seekers of longevity. They mainly involve visual-
izing the five viscera of the body and chanting incantations. These methods
allowed the adept to obtain satisfaction and harmony, and, after some years
of training, even immortality.
The tradition of the meditational cuisines seems to have developed in a
parallel and complementary manner to the communal cuisine liturgy. These
"contemplative" cuisines were well known by the fourth and fifth centuries.
*Ge Hong refers several times to the ability of calling upon "movable cuisines"
(xingchu {j. J§J) as one of the Saint's highest powers. *Shangqing Taoists also
practiced the technique of "making the movable cuisines come r while] sitting
[in meditation r (zuo zhi xingchu * i'51: FT IM). This method, accessible only to
the initiate who possessed the proper series of talismans (*FU) and had mas-
tered certain visualization techniques, conferred powers to become invisible,
to cause thunder, and to call for rain. The method was so popular during the
Tang period that Tantric Buddhism also adopted it.

Christine MOLLIER
III Mollier 2000; Stein R. A. 1971; Stein R. A. 1972; Stein R. A. 1979

* sanhui; Wuchu jing

Chunyang Lu zhenren wenji

Collected Works of the Perfected Lii of Pure Yang

The Chunyang Lu zhenren wenji in eight juan is a collection of stories, poems,
chants, ballads, and other writings attributed to or concerning *Lii Oongbin.
Its nucleus dates to the Southern Song period. The original edition was pub-
lished by Chen Oeyi i>J,lH!'}-· fromJianjin ;&IJ 1$ (Fujian) in n66. This edition,
however, had already been lost by 1423 when the forty-fourth Celestial Master
Zhang Yuqing '* "F fH (1364-1427) recompiled the text by gathering copies
that existed in his time. The Chunyang Lu zhenren wenji as we know it today,
therefore, is an anthology that has no precise date since it took shape from the
Song through the Ming, when at least four editions were published:
1. The 1571 edition by Yao Ruxun ~JE& im from Jiangning il.~ (Jiangsu) in
eight juan (now preserved at the Naikaku bunk6 in Tokyo; see Mori Yuria
1992a, 46), which was reprinted in 1583 under the title Chunyang Liizu wenji
it4: ~ § m.)J:. ~ (Collected Works of Ancestor Lii of Pure Yang) with revi-
sions and additions by Yang Liangbi m L~ 'J81 from Fujian (see Ma Xiaohong