新雕洞靈真經

Xīn diāo Dòng líng zhēn jīng 新雕洞靈真經

Newly-Engraved True Scripture of Communion with the Divine — Sòng printed edition of the Kàngcāng zǐ with Hé Càn’s commentary

by 王士源 (Wáng Shìyuán, compiler, fl. 742); commentary by 何璨 (Hé Càn, variant Hé Càn 何粲; Later Jìn 936–946); Republican-era critical apparatus by 張元濟 (Zhāng Yuánjì, 1867–1959)

The Sòng printed edition of the [[KR5c0050|Dòng líng zhēn jīng]] (the Kàngcāng zǐ) with Hé Càn’s commentary, preserved in the Sìbù cóngkān 四部叢刊 (SBCK, volume 33, number 439) and with a modern critical apparatus by the Republican-era scholar Zhāng Yuánjì 張元濟 (1867–1959).

About the work

This is a parallel edition of the text and commentary also preserved in KR5c0141 (the DZ 747 text). Key differences:

1. Length: This Sòng-print edition is in 5 juàn (preserving the original full length); the DZ 747 version is in 3 juàn (an abridged form).
2. Source: Sòng-period printed edition, transmitted through private collections.
3. Apparatus: Includes Zhāng Yuánjì’s Republican-era critical-edition notes (jiào kān jì 校勘記) — providing systematic text-critical comparisons with other surviving editions.

Author/commentator naming

The catalog records:

• Wáng Shì yuán 王士元 — this is a variant writing of Wáng Shì yuán 王士源 (the compiler of the 742 Kàngcāng zǐ; see KR5c0050).
• Hé Càn 何粲 — variant writing of Hé Càn 何璨 (see KR5c0141). The characters 粲 and 璨 are interchangeable variants meaning “bright, brilliant”.

Zhāng Yuánjì’s critical apparatus

Zhāng Yuánjì 張元濟 (1867–1959) was one of the great modern Chinese philologists and editors — a foundational figure of 20th-century Chinese textual scholarship, chief editor of the Commercial Press 商務印書館 Sìbù cóngkān and Sìbù bèi yào series. His jiào kān jì 校勘記 to this edition provides:

1. Systematic textual-critical comparisons with other surviving Kàngcāng zǐ editions.
2. Notes on variants between the Sòng-printed text and the DZ 747 Daozang text.
3. Modern philological commentary on difficult passages.

Abstract

The Sòng-print edition (KR5c0142) and the Daozang text (KR5c0141) are complementary witnesses to the Hé Càn commentary tradition. The KR5c0142 5-juàn version is textually more complete; the KR5c0141 3-juàn version is in the canonical Daoist Canon. Modern scholarship uses both.

Dating. Per the project convention for multi-stratified texts: Wáng Shìyuán’s 742 composition is the terminus post quem; Hé Càn’s 936–946 commentary is the terminus ante quem for the scholarly-apparatus layer. Frontmatter gives 742–946 as the broad window. Dynasty: 唐-五代.

Translations and research

• See KR5c0050 for the base text and KR5c0141 for the commentary tradition.
• Schipper & Verellen (2004), DZ 669 and DZ 747 entries.

Other points of interest

Zhāng Yuánjì 張元濟 (1867–1959) is one of the most important figures of 20th-century Chinese textual-editorial scholarship. Jìnshì 1892 (the last age of the Qīng civil-service examinations); later co-founder and chief editor of the Shāng wù yìn shū guǎn 商務印書館 (Commercial Press) in Shanghai. His great editorial legacy includes:

• Sìbù cóngkān 四部叢刊 — the 20th-century facsimile-reproduction of rare pre-modern Chinese texts.
• Bǎi nà běn Èr shí sì shǐ 百衲本二十四史 — critical-edition of the Twenty-Four Histories.
• Numerous other scholarly-editorial projects.

His critical apparatus on the Dòng líng zhēn jīng is part of the Sìbù cóngkān editorial programme.

Links

• Kanseki Repository KR5c0142
• Parent text: KR5c0050 Dòng líng zhēn jīng.
• Parallel Daozang edition: KR5c0141.
• Wikipedia: Zhang Yuanji