Fù nèiyì dānzhǐ gāngmù jǔyào 附內義丹旨綱目舉要
Appendix: Outline of the Essentials of Alchemical Principles in the “Inner Meaning”
appendix to Xiāo Yīngsǒu’s [[KR5a0090|Nèiyì (DZ 90)]] by his disciple Lín Yuándǐng 林元鼎 (zì Zhèngfū 正夫, hào Méiyán 梅巖), one juan, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏, 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A one-juan appendix to Xiāo Yīngsǒu’s 蕭應叟 [[KR5a0090|Nèiyì 內義]] (Guānfù xiānshēng nèiyì dānzhǐ 觀復先生內義丹旨 in Xiāo’s hào), composed by his disciple Lín Yuándǐng 林元鼎 (zì Zhèngfū 正夫, hào Méiyán 梅巖). The text opens with the direct authorship line 門人梅巖林元鼎正夫述 (“composed by the disciple Méiyán, Lín Yuándǐng, zì Zhèngfū”). The scripture-apparatus reconstructs the main alchemical identifications given in Xiāo’s Nèiyì under easy-to-remember headings, explaining that:
The Língbǎo zhèngwén 靈寶正文 is what the Most High Yuánshǐ tiānzūn spoke from the Jewel-Pearl, transmitted to the Yùchén Dàojūn 玉晨道君. The passages of the Língshū zhōngpiān 靈書中篇 in the scripture are what Dàojūn received from Yuánshǐ and then elaborated and expounded; the text may be different, but the Dào is one.
Lín then supplies a synoptic table of the allegorical identifications of Xiāo’s Nèiyì — Yuánshǐ dàluó tiānrén = zǔqì 祖炁 (the Ancestral Qì); Dàojūn Xīnà guórén = Jīnmǔ 金母 (the Golden Mother); Lǎojūn = the alchemical-body — unifying the multiple allegorical names (gēnghǔ 庚虎, jiǎlóng 甲龍, rìhún 日魂, yuèpò 月魄, hóngqiān 紅鉛, hēixī 黑錫, zhūshā 朱砂, chìgǒng 赤汞) into a single “pre-celestial unified qì” (xiāntiān yīqì 先天一炁).
Prefaces
Authorship line only: “composed by the disciple Méiyán, Lín Yuándǐng, zì Zhèngfū.”
Abstract
The text is an editorial appendix to [[KR5a0090|DZ 90 Nèiyì]], composed by Xiāo Yīngsǒu’s disciple Lín Yuándǐng. Its stylistic and doctrinal dependency on Xiāo’s Nèiyì (1226) and on the lineage developed thereafter fixes its date to some time between 1226 (Xiāo’s own composition) and the general Southern SòngYuán transition. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1226 / notAfter 1300, with dynasty 南宋—元. Lín Yuándǐng is the sole wikilinked person.
No dedicated S-V entry for DZ 91 (as a separate item from DZ 90) appears in the consulted volumes; the appendix is probably treated as continuous with Xiāo’s Nèiyì in the Schipper & Verellen classification.
Translations and research
No translation. For the parent Nèiyì see DZ 90 and Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 716–717.
Other points of interest
The appendix is a useful witness to the reception of Xiāo Yīngsǒu’s Nèiyì within his own immediate disciple circle: the impulse to reduce Xiāo’s richly-allegorical inner-alchemical interpretations to a synoptic table reflects the difficulty of Xiāo’s own text even for his followers, and supplies a one-juan pedagogical key to the master’s exegesis. Lín’s hào Méiyán (“Plum-Cliff”) is otherwise unattested in Daoist biographical sources.