Taiqing jinye shendan jing,

Scripture of the Divine Elixir of the Golden Liquor of Great Clarity Taiqing jinye shendan jing)... 

On the Mud of the Six-and-One see above. Chapter 4. Donghai is in present-day Shandong. The Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.15a, explains Observe the earthenware crucible and make the desired amount [of mud], so that it will be enough for luting the crucible. ... 

The Explanations, i.qa-b, adds Make it into a mud, and pound it ten thousand times. Also according to a similar passage in the Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.15b, white lead should be added to an equal... 

The Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.15b adds Do not let there be scorches and cracks if there are any, tend them immediately with the Mud. The Flower of Cinnabar is the first of the Nine Elixirs. 

The name of this elixir can also be rendered as Cinnabar Flower, where flower denotes the sublimate and cinnabar is its color as said below, the elixir sometimes will be of a vivid scarlet color like cinnabar. The Taiqing jinye shendan jing, i.iyb-ihb, describes a similar method where cinnabar is refined with realgar and orpiment as the Mysterious and Yellow does in the methods of the Nine Elixirs, these two minerals incorporate Yin and Yang in the crucible. For another translation of this section of the Nine Elixirs see Ware, Alchemy, Medicine and Religion in the China of a.d. 320, 78-79. 

CT 901), i.ib, lists among the synonyms of cinnabar. The corresponding method in the Taiqing jinye shendan jing designates cinnabar by its common name, dansha ( cinnabar powder ). 

In her Revelation du Shangqing, Isabelle Robinet has remar ed that the recipes found in the Taiqing jinye shendan jing Wf H(Scripture of the... 

As noted above in Chapter 3, there is no indication that the Taiqing jinye shendan jing—despite the Taiqing prefix in its title, which it shares with many other extant or lost texts—was originally part of the Taiqing corpus. The text, however, quotes passages of the Scripture of the Nine Elixirs con-... 

Moreover, one of the additional methods described in this wor is similar to the method for ma ing the first of the Nine Elixirs These similarities suggest that while the Taiqing jinye shendan jing is not an original Taiqing text, it is partially based on the Taiqing scriptures and particularly on the Nine Elixirs. 

The first citation of a Taiqing jinye shendan jing in three scrolls is found in the Chongiven zongmu (Complete List [of the Institute] for... 

The summary in the Inner Chapters is compared to the received Golden Liquid of the Divine Immortals below, pp. rr4-i8. Lor more details on the Scripture of the Golden Liquor and the Taiqing jinye shendan jing see Appendix B. 

Jiudan jingjue, i.za-b Sanshiliu shuifa, i2a-b Taiqing shibi ji, i.4a-b Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.7a. 

For the sentence on the Branches of Earth and the Stems of Heaven tian-gan) I follow the Taiqing jinye shendan jing, i.4a-b, and the Sanshiliu shuifa I2a-b, which read fan zhigan for ji zhi tian. 

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