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leged relative of Yin Xi, played a prominent role at court. It was yet another
such relative, *Yin Zhiping (u69- 1251), patriarch of the *Quanzhen school
under the Yuan, who again catapulted Louguan to prominence in the thir-
teenth century. The Louguan traditions survive today as a pai W ('branch"
or "lineage") within Quanzhen; the abbey is still a flourishing institution in
the Zhongnan mountains.
Sources. The Louguan branch is first described in the early Tang inscription
Zongsheng guan ji * ~ ffSl ~c (Records of the Abbey of the Ancestral Saint; 625
CB), using the honorific name the Tang emperors bestowed on the institution.
Shortly after this, the Louguan benji fJ1l W1. * ~ (Original Records of Louguan)
was compiled; it is lost today, but from citations in mid-Tang works it seems
to have been a comprehensive history of the institution, first establishing a
fictional line of patriarchs all the way back to Ym Xi.
Most explicit descriptions of the patriarchal lineage and the wonders of
Louguan are found in Yuan-dynasty sources, notably the Zhongnan shan Zuting
xianzhen neizhuan frt¥- r?-J ill f.El.)g {llJA i*J 1-' (Inner Biographies of the Immortals
and Perfected of the Ancestral Court in the Zhongnan Mountains; 1284; CT
955), by *Li Daoqian (1219- 96); the Gu Louguan ziyun yanqingji r'1¥'£W1.~~
fijW~ (Anthology from the Continued Celebration [of the Appearance] of
the Purple Clouds at the Tiered Abbey of Antiquity; CT 957; BoltzJ. M. 1987a,
126), a collection of stele inscriptions by Zhu Xiangxian *~:% (fl. 1279-1308);
and the *Zhenxian beiji (Epigraphic Records of Perfected and Immortals; CT
956), also by Zhu Xiangxian, based on the older and now-lost Louguan xianshi
zhuan flWt:% ffiliWJ (Biographies of Previous Louguan Masters).
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W Kohn 1997b; Qing Xitai 1988-95, I : 425- 44 and 2: 141-45; Qing Xitai 1994,
I: U3-I7; Zhang Weiling 1991
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See entry in "Taoism: An Overview," p. 39.