Huángdì yīnfú jīng zhùjiě 黃帝陰符經註解
Commentaries and Explanations Concerning the “Huángdì yīnfú jīng”
Northern-Sòng nèidān commentary on the Yīnfú jīng by Rèn Zhàoyī 任照一, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0115 / CT 115 = TC 114), 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A commentary by Rèn Zhàoyī 任照一 on the [[KR5a0031|Yīnfú jīng]] treating mainly the Dào of Heaven and humanity and the principles of the moving forces that lead to their “hidden correspondence” (yīnfú 陰符). The author is said to have written this work on the basis of instructions by unnamed zhēnrén (see the preface). The scripture is given in its short version (c. 300 words), and the three subtitles are incorporated into the commentary. The interpretation emphasises the concepts and terminology of the nèidān 內丹 school of the Sòng period, featuring the cultivation of human nature and the micro-/macrocosmic processes produced by yīn and yáng.
Prefaces
Preface by Rèn Zhàoyī recording the text’s basis in instructions from unnamed zhēnrén.
Abstract
Florian C. Reiter, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:695 (§3.A.1), dates the commentary to the Northern Sòng on internal evidence (its nèidān vocabulary and doctrinal apparatus). The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 960 / notAfter 1127, with dynasty 北宋. Rèn Zhàoyī is the sole catalog-meta person wikilinked.
Translations and research
No translation. Standard scholarly entry: Florian C. Reiter, “Huangdi yinfu jing zhujie” (Rèn Zhàoyī), in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 695.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0115
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 695 — DZ 114 (TC) / KR5a0115 (Kanripo) entry.