The Great Clarity Corpus

MAIN SCRIPTURES OF THE EARLY TAIQING CORPUS Scripture of Great Clarity Taiqing jing) 

Scripture of the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles [Jiuzhuan huandan jing) 

Scripture of the Elixir Elower of Langgan Langgan huadan jing) 

Scripture of the Liquid Pearl in Nine Cycles and of the Nine Elixirs of the Divine Immortals Jiuzhuan liuzhu shenxian jiudan jing) 

Methods of the Thirty-six Aqueous Solutions Sanshiliu shuifa) 

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In his summary of the Taiqing texts, Ge Hong quotes a passage from the Scripture of Great Clarity not found in any extant source of the Taiqing corpus, which asserts that the Way of long life does not consist in making cer-... 

The first of the two early waidan works included in the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) corpus is the Essential Instructions on the Scripture of the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles of the Perfected of the Great Ultimate [Taiji zhenren jiuzhuan huandan jing yaojue). As we know it today, this work consists of... 

The import of Great Clarity as both a celestial domain and the designation of a Daoist scriptural corpus is explained as follows around 700 CE in the Pivot of Meaning of the Daoist Teaching (Daojiao yishu) ... 

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