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Series lists altogether 1476 titles in the Daozang and indicates which texts are
also found in the *Daozangjiyao (Essentials of the Taoist Canon) of 1906. An
additional list of the texts recorded in the Daozangjiyao alone is followed by
indices to both titles and compilers. The closing index to biographies is keyed
to seventy-seven hagiographic resources in the Canon.
An index volume accompanying the 60-volume edition of the Zhengtong
daozang lists altogether 1487 titles in the Canon. Li Diankui ~ J#11AJ1 is responsible
for this reedition of the Concordance du Tao-tsang compiled under the direction
of Kristofer Schipper in 1975. The editors of the Daozang tiyao ill: ~ii£ ih! * (A Con-
spectus of the Taoist Canon), RenJiyu {f~.®: and Zhong Zhaopeng it,yt)!~,
alternatively list a total of 1473 titles in the Canon. This collection of abstracts
for all texts in the Canon also includes a supplement of brief biographical ac-
counts on compilers cited. Another comprehensive guide to the Canon has been
under preparation since 1979, with the establishment of the "Projet Tao-tsang"
under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. The results of this
massive collaborative enterprise, edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus
Verellen, have been published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press under
the title The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang.
The recently published Xinbian daozang mulu *JT~ill~~ H i~ (A Newly-
Compiled Index to the Taoist Canon) compiled by Zhong Zhaopeng (1999)
presents a reorganized table of contents to the Canon. This two-volume
threadbound publication lists a total of 1527 titles under six major headings and
twenty-two subheadings. Recorded under each title are the fascicle number(s)
in the Hanfen Iou edition and volume number(s) in the 60-volume Yiwen
edition. The few editorial notes recorded after this data in some entries offer
clarifications of provenance. The appearance of the 1988 edition late in the
course of his work on this index led the compiler to add a chart listing the
fascicle numbers of the Hanfen Iou edition in correspondence with its thirty-six
volumes (labelled Sanjia ben .~ * ;$:). The second volume of this publication
contains indices to compilers and titles.

Subsidiary compilations. The Daozangjiyao mentioned above is by far the largest
of anthologies chiefly derived from the Ming Canon. Other collections of note
include the *Daoshu shi'er zhong (Twelve Books on the Dao), the *Daozang
jinghua (Essential Splendors of the Taoist Canon), and the *Daozangjinghua lu
(Record of the Essential Splendors of the Taoist Canon). Publications that go
beyond the Canon include the *Daozang xubian (Sequel to the Taoist Canon),
the *Zhuang-Lin xu daozang (Supplementary Taoist Canon of Zhuang[-Chen
DengyunJ and Lin [RumeiJ), and the *Zangwai daoshu (Taoist Texts Outside
the Canon).
Specialized publications not to be overlooked include the collections of texts
pertinent to the Taoist heritage that have been recovered from *Dunhuang
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