Huángdì yīnfú jīng shū 黃帝陰符經疏
Extensive Commentary on the “Huángdì yīnfú jīng”
a commentary on the Huángdì yīnfú jīng 黃帝陰符經 falsely ascribed to Lǐ Quán 李筌, but actually compiled in the later Táng or early Sòng on the basis of Dù Guāngtíng’s 杜光庭 account of Lǐ Quán’s encounter with the Old Woman of Líshān 驪山; three juan; preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0111 / CT 111 = TC 110), 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A three-juan commentary on the [[KR5a0031|Huángdì yīnfú jīng]] attributed to Lǐ Quán but in fact composed substantially later. The commentary preserves the famous legend — first elaborated in the early tenth century by Dù Guāngtíng 杜光庭 (850–933) — of Lǐ Quán’s encounter with the Líshān lǎo mǔ 驪山老母 (“Old Woman of Mount Lí”), who revealed to him the authentic explication of the scripture and confirmed its supposed Yellow-Emperor pedigree. The commentaries attributed to Lǐ Quán here do not match those attributed to him in [[KR5a0109|DZ 109 Jízhù]] — confirming the pseudepigraphic nature of the attribution. The short version of the scripture (c. 300 words) is divided into three paragraphs; the commentary discusses the three subtitles and treats the Yīnfú jīng as speaking to individual self-cultivation and the spheres of family and state. Several commentary-strata use lyrical forms.
Prefaces
Preface narrating the Lǐ Quán / Old-Woman-of-Lí-shān origin-legend.
Abstract
Florian C. Reiter, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:693–694 (§3.A.1), identifies the commentary as pseudepigraphically attributed to Lǐ Quán, actually deriving from Dù Guāngtíng’s early-tenth-century account. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 900 / notAfter 1000, with dynasty 五代—北宋初.
Translations and research
No translation. Standard scholarly entry: Florian C. Reiter, “Huangdi yinfu jing shu,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 693–694.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0111
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 693–694 — DZ 110 (TC) / KR5a0111 (Kanripo) entry (Florian C. Reiter).