Huángdì yīnfú jīng zhù 黃帝陰符經註
Commentary on the “Huángdì yīnfú jīng”
Jīn-dynasty commentary by Hóu Shànyuán 侯善淵 (hào Tàixuánzǐ 太玄子) of Mount Gūshè 姑射山, Shānxī; nine folios; preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0124 / CT 124 = TC 123), 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A nine-folio Jīn-dynasty commentary by Hóu Shànyuán 侯善淵, hào Tàixuánzǐ 太玄子, resident on Mount Gūshè 姑射山 (Shānxī). The preface (of unknown origin) states that yīn 陰 and fú 符 represent the internal and external phenomena of human nature; the moving forces of life and the means to control or direct life are all human faculties. The long version (c. 400 words) is not subdivided into paragraphs. The commentaries consist of short sentences intended only to clarify the diction of the scripture.
Prefaces
Preface of unknown origin.
Abstract
Florian C. Reiter, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:699 (§3.A.1), dates the commentary to the Jīn period (Jurchen Jīn, 1115–1234). The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1115 / notAfter 1234, with dynasty 金. Hóu Shànyuán is the sole catalog-meta person wikilinked.
Translations and research
No translation. Standard scholarly entry: Florian C. Reiter, “Huangdi yinfu jing zhu” (Hóu Shànyuán), in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 699.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0124
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.A.1, 699 — DZ 123 (TC) / KR5a0124 (Kanripo) entry.