Taiqing : origins

All we know about the beginnings of Taiqing tradition, therefore, is that it originated in present-day eastern Anhui around 200 CE, and was soon transmitted to the nearby region across the Changjiang River. Apparently... 

Comparison of the Scripture of the Golden Liquid of the Divine Immortals with Ge Hong s summary shows beyond doubt that this text contains the original Taiqing method for making the Golden Liquor. 

The texts in the Taiqing supplement, therefore, yield knowledge of the heaven of Great Clarity because they are deemed to originate from that celestial domain, and to serve as a support for obtaining access to it. 

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. 

Baopu zi, 4.78-82 (trans. Ware, 83-89). In addition to those belonging to the three main Taiqing scriptnres, chapter 4 of Ge Hong s wor also contains qnotations of other methods originally fonnd in other texts. See Kim,... 

See, for instance. Ware, Alchemy, Medicine and Religion, 69 and Honda Wataru, H6bo nshi, 25. I also mentioned Shandong as the area of origin of the Taiqing tradition in my Elixirs and Alchemy this information shonld be amended in the light of the evidence provided below. 

Dian is the same term mentioned above in relation to the fire times. In the Tang waidan texts, the implication is that the particle of Original Pneuma, represented by elixir, confers its properties to the entire cosmos. Despite the difference in formulation, the same notion underlies the Taiqing texts. 

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