Huangting jing

At the same time, though, Shangqing also integrated several features of the earlier southern traditions into its own doctrines and practices, and incorporated some of their texts into its own revealed literature. The best-known instance of integration of earlier methods concerns the meditation and visualization techniques described in the Scripture of the Yellow Court Huangting jing), a third-century work that represents the human being as... 

Both the meditation practices and the relevant terminology continued to be transmitted in the subsequent centuries, first within traditions related to meditation, and later within traditions related to neidan. The two main sources that document the relation of these traditions to both tvaidan and neidan are the Central Scripture of Laozi (Laozi zhongjing) and the Scripture of the Yellow Court (Huangting jing), both of which circulated in Jiangnan during the third century. One detail is sufficient to show the continuity between these two texts and those quoted above. In its descriptions of the inner body, the... 

La revelation du Shangqing, i 176-80 Bo en amp, Early Daoist Scriptures, 289-95 (especially p. 2,92). It should be noted that in this respect Shangqing actually did not innovate, but developed traditions documented by earlier sources on meditation practices, especially the Central Scripture ofLaozi (Laozi zhongjing) and the Scripture of the Yellow Court (Huangting jing). See my Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy, and Chapter 12 of the present boo . 

Laozi zhongjing, sec. 5 Huangting neijing jing (Scripture of the Inner Effulgences of the Yellow Court in Yunji qiqian, j. rr-rz.zjh), sec. 29. 

Huangting waijing jing ft [Scripture of the Outer Effulgences of the Yellow Court], Originally third or early fourth century. Commentary by Bai Lizhong SSlS. (fl. 722-29). Yunji qiqian (CT 1032), i2.28a-56b. 

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