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 [[KR5a0124|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 [[KR5a1002|DZ 1002 Zhōuyì cāntóng qì commentary]] (under the pseudonym Kōngtóng dàoshì Zōu Xīn 空同道士鄒欣).
Translations and research
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.