Huángdì yīnfú jīng zhù 黃帝陰符經註
Commentary on the “Huángdì yīnfú jīng”
Southern-Sòng commentary on the Yīnfú jīng commonly attributed to Zhū Xī 朱熹 (1130–1200) or to his student Cài Yuándǐng 蔡元定 — published under the authorship “Mr. Cài” (Cài shì 蔡氏); nine folios; preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0118 / CT 118 = TC 117), 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A nine-folio commentary published under the authorship “Mr. Cài” (Cài shì 蔡氏), but actually carrying Zhū Xī 朱熹’s 朱熹 (1130–1200) commentary on the Yīnfú jīng; the Cài attribution refers to Zhū’s student Cài Yuándǐng 蔡元定. The text is identical with the first portion of DZ 124 Huángdì yīnfú jīng zhùjiě 1a–8a.
Prefaces
No distinct prefaces identifiable beyond the catalog attribution.
Abstract
Florian C. Reiter, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:696 (§3.A.1), identifies the commentary as carrying Zhū Xī’s exegesis of the Yīnfú jīng under the Cài-student attribution. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1130 (Zhū Xī’s birth year) / notAfter 1200 (Zhū Xī’s death year), with dynasty 南宋. Cài shì is the sole catalog-meta person wikilinked; Zhū Xī is discussed in prose.
The present text is one of the most interesting Daoist-canon Daozang preservations of a Zhū Xī Daoist-text commentary — a rare case within the Daozang of Neo-Confucian-side commentary on a Daoist classic. Zhū’s Yīnfú jīng commentary is part of his small corpus of Daoist-text engagements that also includes the DZ 1002 Zhōuyì cāntóng qì commentary (under the pseudonym Kōngtóng dàoshì Zōu Xīn 空同道士鄒欣).
Translations and research
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No translation. Standard scholarly entry: Florian C. Reiter, “Huangdi yinfu jing zhu” (Cài shì), in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 696.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0118
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 696 — DZ 117 (TC) / KR5a0118 (Kanripo) entry.