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 Táng-Sòng 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 Sòng-Yuán 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.