Dà dí dòng tiān jì 大滌洞天記
Record of the Grotto-Heaven of Great Cleansing
by 鄧牧 (Dèng Mù, 1247–1306)
A Yuán-era gazetteer of the Daoist grotto-heaven Dà dí 大滌 — a major Daoist sacred site near Hángzhōu 杭州 in Zhè jiāng 浙江. By Dèng Mù 鄧牧 (1247–1306), a notable Southern-Sòng loyalist scholar who lived into the Yuán. Preserved as DZ 782 / CT 782 (Dòngshén bù, Pǔ lù lèi 洞神部譜錄類).
About the work
The Dà dí grotto-heaven
The Dà dí 大滌 grotto-heaven is one of the classical thirty-six lesser grotto-heavens (sān shí liù xiǎo dòng tiān 三十六小洞天) of the Daoist sacred-geography system, located near Yú háng 餘杭 (close to Hángzhōu). It is historically associated with Guō Wén jū 郭文舉 (Eastern Jìn recluse) and with various TángSòng Daoist masters.
Author
Dèng Mù 鄧牧 (1247–1306) — also known as Dèng Wén yuán 鄧文原’s contemporary, and zì Mù xīn 牧心 (“Shepherd-Heart”). A Southern-Sòng loyalist (the Sòng fell when Dèng was 32, in 1279; he refused to serve the Mongol-Yuán) and one of the notable yǐ mín 遺民 (“remnant people”) of the SòngYuán transition. Author of the famous Bó yá qín 伯牙琴 essays — anti-authoritarian, Daoist-inflected political writings considered proto-democratic by some modern readers.
Abstract
A regional Daoist gazetteer with distinctive late-Sòng loyalist authorial voice.
Dating. Within Dèng Mù’s lifetime (1280–1306 for his Yuán-period composition). Dynasty: 元.