正一部

KR5g 正一部 Zhèng yī bù — Daoist Canon → Orthodox Unity (Fourth Supplement)

Scope and scholarly tradition

KR5g 正一部 (Zhèng yī bù, “Orthodox Unity Section”) is the fourth and largest of the four supplements (sì fǔ 四輔) of the Zhèng tǒng Dào zàng 正統道藏 (1445), spanning DZ 1192 – DZ 1431b in the Schipper / Verellen Concordance du Tao-tsang numbering — 244 titles in the Kanripo enumeration KR5g0001 – KR5g0244. Within the four-supplements architecture explained by Wilkinson §29.4.4 — Tàixuán 太玄 (to KR5a Dòng zhēn), Tàipíng 太平 (to KR5b Dòng xuán), Tàiqīng 太清 (to KR5c Dòng shén), Zhèng yī 正一 to all three — Zhèng yī was originally conceived as the canonical archive of the Celestial-Masters tradition (Tiān shī dào 天師道) descending from 張陵 Zhāng Líng (Zhāng Dàolíng, 34–156 [or 178] CE; Wilkinson §29.4.2), and ought in principle to have housed the ordination registers, ritual codes, and doctrinal scriptures of the lineage that had become the dominant priestly institution of imperial Daoism by the Sòng. In practice, the section is more than twice the size of the other three supplements combined (KR5d, KR5e, KR5f) and has absorbed every variety of canonical material that the editors of 1445 could not place in sāndòng 三洞 or in the first three fǔ — most consequentially the Sòng “new ritual” lineages (Shén xiāo 神霄, Qīng wēi 清微, Tóng chū 童初, Tiān xīn 天心 — the léi fǎ 雷法 thunder-rites movements), the Quán zhēn 全真 doctrinal and disciplinary archive, the SòngYuán Nánzōng 南宗 inner-alchemical corpus, the late-medieval hagiographical and oracle-slip literature, and — perhaps most surprisingly — a large Six-Dynasties Shàng qīng 上清 scriptural archive of more than 80 titles (KR5g0122 – KR5g0211 ff.) that classification should have placed in KR5a Dòng zhēn but which the canon-editors of the Zhèng yī bù received from independent transmission streams and lodged here.

The section closes the Dào zàng itself: the final six items (KR5g0239 – KR5g0244) are the bibliographic apparatus of the canon as a whole — Bái Yúnjì 白雲霽’s annotated catalogue of 1626 Dào zàng mù lù xiáng zhù KR5g0239, the 1445 catalogue of texts known but missing from the Zhèng tǒng compilation Dào zàng quē jīng mù lù KR5g0240, the Dào zàng zūn jīng lì dài gāng mù KR5g0241 and Dào jiào zōng yuán KR5g0242, the official 1445 table of contents Dà Míng Dào zàng jīng mù lù KR5g0243, and the 1607 catalogue of the Wàn lì Xù Dào zàng 萬曆續道藏 supplement KR5g0244 — so that the canon ends with itself indexed. (The 1607 supplement texts themselves are in KR5h and KR5i, not here.) The chronological span of the section’s actual contents runs from a Wèi-period philosophical core (王弼 Wáng Bì’s Lǎo zǐ wēi zhǐ lì lüè 老子微旨例略 KR5g0064, 226–249) through the dense Six-Dynasties Shàng qīng stratum (4th–6th centuries), a Táng ritual-codification layer (杜光庭 Dù Guāngtíng’s monumental rubric collection Dào mén kē fàn dà quán jí KR5g0034, 901–933), the SòngYuán “great-method” liturgies and Thunder-Rites theoretical archive (c. 1100–1370), an early-Míng administrative-reform layer under the 43rd Celestial Master 張宇初 Zhāng Yǔchū (1359–1410), and the 1444–1445 bibliographic apparatus of the canon itself. KR5g is therefore best read not as a coherent textual school but as the Daozang’s institutional reservoir of the operative priesthood — bracketed at one end by the foundational Six-Dynasties Celestial-Masters self-narrative (KR5g0014 Sān tiān nèi jiě jīng) and at the other by the canon’s own table of contents.

Important texts and text clusters

The Celestial-Masters self-history and ordination-register core. The earliest substantive Zhèngyī material in the section.

• Sān tiān nèi jiě jīng 三天內解經 KR5g0014 — anonymous “Xúshì” 徐氏 (fl. c. 420–478), LiúSòng. The lineage’s own version of the Three-Heavens revelation, 張陵 Zhāng Dàolíng’s covenant with Tàishàng Lǎojūn, and the early Celestial-Masters pantheon — the foundational southern-dynasties self-narrative of the school.
• Zhèng yī tiān shī gào Zhào Shēng kǒu jué 正一天師告趙昇口訣 KR5g0082 — anonymous Eastern Jìn (317–420). The orally-transmitted instructions of Zhāng Dàolíng to his disciple Zhào Shēng 趙昇; among the oldest surviving Celestial-Masters texts.
• Zhèng yī fǎ wén jīng zhāng guān pǐn 正一法文經章官品 KR5g0027 — anonymous Six Dynasties. The liturgical inventory of the spirit-officials invoked in zhāng 章 memorials — the bureaucratic personnel-roster of classical Zhèngyī petition ritual.
• Tài shàng sān wǔ Zhèng yī méng wēi lù 太上三五正一盟威籙 KR5g0017 — anonymous TángSòng, 6 juàn. The core ordination-register of the lineage — the Sān wǔ méng wēi lù 三五盟威籙 (Register of Three-and-Five Covenant-Authority) whose transmission defined entry into the Celestial-Masters priesthood. The cluster KR5g0018 – KR5g0021 preserves the associated transmission-ritual codes; KR5g0022 – KR5g0026 hold the supplementary individual registers for the Xuán tiān Zhēn wǔ 玄天真武 and Běi jí 北極 cults.

The SòngYuánMíng “great-method” and general-ritual compendia. The institutional spine of the section.

• Dào fǎ huì yuán 道法會元 KR5g0029 — anonymous, early Míng (c. 1368–1445), 268 juàn. The single largest ritual compendium in the entire Dào zàng: the umbrella collection of the Thunder-Rites (Shén xiāo, Qīng wēi, Tóng chū, Tiān xīn) corpora that defined late-imperial Zhèngyī practice (Skar 2000; Reiter 2007).
• Shàng qīng Líng bǎo dà fǎ 上清靈寶大法 (yī) KR5g0030 — 王契真 Wáng Qìzhēn, Southern Sòng. The first of the two Dàozàng Shàngqīng / Língbǎo “great-method” syntheses. The associated Mù lù 目錄 KR5g0031 catalogues its contents.
• Shàng qīng Líng bǎo dà fǎ 上清靈寶大法 (èr) KR5g0032 — 金允中 Jīn Yǔnzhōng, Southern Sòng. The polemically distinct 66-juàn recension that, together with Wáng Qìzhēn’s, documents the principal Southern-Sòng inter-school ritual debate.
• Dào mén kē fàn dà quán jí 道門科範大全集 KR5g0034 — 杜光庭 Dù Guāngtíng (850–933), 87 juàn. The monumental late-Táng / Five-Dynasties rubric collection that supplies the underlying templates rebuilt in all later Zhèngyī compendia in the section.
• Dào mén dìng zhì 道門定制 KR5g0033 — 呂元素 Lǚ Yuánsù, dated by preface to 1188. The Southern-Sòng codification of Daoist monastic and ritual regulations.
• Dào mén tōng jiào bì yòng jí 道門通教必用集 KR5g0035 — 呂太古 Lǚ Tàigǔ, preface dated 1201. The everyday-use Southern-Sòng liturgy handbook, the practical counterpart to the great compendia.
• Tài shàng zhù guó jiù mín zǒng zhēn bì yào 太上助國救民總真祕要 KR5g0036 — 元妙宗 Yuán Miàozōng, dated 1116. The Huī-zōng-court state-protection manual, emblematic of the Northern-Sòng imperial sponsorship of Zhèngyī liturgy.
• Dào mén shí guī 道門十規 KR5g0041 — 張宇初 Zhāng Yǔchū (1359–1410), 43rd Celestial Master, c. 1400. The programmatic early-Míng Tiānshī reform document that reorganized ordination, discipline, and Daoist-Confucian relations after the founding of the Míng — the institutional charter of the family that supervised the Zhèng tǒng Dào zàng.

The Thunder-Rites léi fǎ 雷法 doctrinal apparatus. Paired with the Dào fǎ huì yuán practical corpus.

• Chōng xū tōng miào shì chén Wáng xiān sheng jiā huà 沖虛通妙侍宸王先生家話 KR5g0059 — sayings of 王文卿 Wáng Wénqīng (1093–1153), compiled by Yuán Tíngzhí. The doctrinal anchor of the Shén xiāo Thunder-Rites lineage whose ritual corpus fills the Dào fǎ huì yuán.
• Dào fǎ xīn chuán 道法心傳 KR5g0062 — Wáng Wéiyī 王惟一, Yuán. Yuán doctrinal-transmission text formalizing the “heart-transmission” theory behind the Thunder-Rites.
• Léi fǎ yì xuán piān 雷法議玄篇 KR5g0063 — Wàn Zōngshī 萬宗師, Yuán. Companion Yuán theoretical tract on Thunder-Rites mysteries.
• Dào fǎ zōng zhǐ tú yǎn yì 道法宗旨圖衍義 KR5g0086 — Dèng Nán 鄧柟, Yuán. Diagrammatic exegesis of Daoist ritual essentials.

The Tiānshī-family self-representation. The 30th and 43rd Celestial Masters writing inside the supplement.

• Sān shí dài tiān shī Xū jìng zhēn jūn yǔ lù 三十代天師虛靜真君語錄 KR5g0058 — recorded sayings of 張繼先 Zhāng Jìxiān (1092–1127), 30th Celestial Master; the leading Tiānshī figure of Huīzōng’s court-Daoist synthesis.
• Dào mén shí guī KR5g0041 and Xiàn quán jí 峴泉集 KR5g0120 — the reform charter and the 20-juàn collected literary writings of 張宇初 Zhāng Yǔchū (1359–1410), 43rd Celestial Master — the literary self-portrait of the family that supervised the compilation of the Dào zàng.

The Quán zhēn 全真 cluster embedded inside the rival division. A consequential editorial inclusion: the foundational doctrinal and disciplinary charters of the northern Quánzhēn school within the Tiānshī-supervised canon.

• Chóng yáng lì jiào shí wǔ lùn 重陽立教十五論 KR5g0042 — 王嚞 Wáng Chóngyáng (1113–1170). The founding doctrinal manifesto of Quán zhēn — fifteen short discourses establishing the programmatic teaching (precepts, austerities, meditation, mind-nature).
• Dān yáng zhēn rén zhí yán 丹陽真人直言 KR5g0043 — 馬鈺 Mǎ Dānyáng (1123–1184). Direct sayings of Wáng Chóngyáng’s senior disciple and first-generation Quánzhēn patriarch.
• Quán zhēn qīng guī 全真清規 KR5g0044 — 陸道和 Lù Dàohé, Yuán. The foundational Quánzhēn monastic code (modelled on Buddhist 清規).
• Quán zhēn zuò bō jié fǎ 全真坐鉢捷法 KR5g0038 — anonymous Yuán Quánzhēn meditation manual.
• Qīng hé zhēn rén Běi yóu yǔ lù 清和真人北遊語錄 KR5g0119 — sayings of 尹志平 Yǐn Zhìpíng (1169–1251), Qiū Chùjī’s successor as third-generation Quánzhēn patriarch on his northern travels.
• Cháng chūn zhēn rén xī yóu jì 長春真人西遊記 KR5g0238 — 李志常 Lǐ Zhìcháng (1193–1256), composed 1228. The travel-narrative of 丘處機 Qiū Chùjī’s 1219–1223 overland journey to meet Činggis Qaγan in the Hindu Kush — a top-rank primary source for 13th-century Inner Asian history and the Mongol-Quán-zhēn alliance (Waley 1931).

The Bái Yùchán / Hǎiqióng cluster — the Nánzōng 南宗 anchor.

• Hǎi qióng Bái zhēn rén yǔ lù 海瓊白真人語錄 KR5g0116, Hǎi qióng wèn dào jí 海瓊問道集 KR5g0117, Hǎi qióng chuán dào jí 海瓊傳道集 KR5g0118 — three-text dossier of recorded sayings, dialogues, and transmission writings of 白玉蟾 Bái Yùchán (1194–1229), Fifth Patriarch of the Southern Lineage of Daoist inner alchemy (nèi dān 內丹).

The Six Dynasties Shàngqīng scriptural archive. A surprisingly large stratum (~85 titles, KR5g0122 – KR5g0211 ff.) that classification would have placed in KR5a Dòng zhēn but which the canon-editors received here through independent transmission. Representative items:

• Dòng zhēn tài shàng sù líng dòng yuán dà yǒu miào jīng 洞真太上素靈洞元大有妙經 KR5g0123 — Six Dynasties.
• The Bā sù zhēn jīng 八素真經 corpus KR5g0129 – KR5g0134 — Six Dynasties / Táng.
• Dòng zhēn huáng shū 洞真黃書 KR5g0152 — Six Dynasties; a key witness of the early sexual-ritual stratum subsequently subject to repeated Daoist reform.
• Shàng qīng tài shàng dì jūn jiǔ zhēn zhōng jīng 上清太上帝君九真中經 KR5g0185 — Six Dynasties; foundational Shàng qīng visualization scripture.
• Shàng qīng qióng gōng líng fēi liù jiǎ lù 上清瓊宮靈飛六甲籙 KR5g0200 — Eastern Jìn.
• Shì dì chén Dōng huá shàng zuǒ sī mìng Yáng jūn zhuàn jì 侍帝晨東華上佐司命楊君傳記 KR5g0237 — Sòng hagiography of 楊羲 Yáng Xī (330–386), the visionary medium of the original Shàng qīng revelations. A major late witness to Sòng memory of the Mao-shan 茅山 revelations.

Hagiographies and the líng qiān 靈籤 oracle-slip cluster. A distinctive group of cult-specific divination texts.

• Sān dòng qún xiān lù 三洞群仙錄 KR5g0057 — Chén Bǎoguāng 陳葆光, Southern Sòng. A 20-juàn hagiographical encyclopedia of immortals drawn from the Three Caverns — the Sòng-era benchmark anthology of Daoist saints’ lives.
• Yì shèng bǎo dé zhuàn 翊聖保德傳 KR5g0094 — 王欽若 Wáng Qīnruò (962–1025). Imperially-sponsored hagiography of the Yìshèng bǎodé zhēnjūn 翊聖保德真君, instituted to legitimize Sòng Zhēnzōng’s Daoist program.
• Lú shān Tài píng xīng guó gōng cǎi fǎng zhēn jūn shì shí 盧山太平興國宮採訪真君事實 KR5g0095 — 葉義問 Yè Yìwèn (1098–1170). Southern-Sòng local-Daoist record of the Cǎifǎng zhēnjūn cult at Mount Lú, Jiāngxī.
• The líng qiān 靈籤 oracle-slip block KR5g0107 – KR5g0114 — eight cult-specific oracle-slip collections (the Four Saints, the Mother of the Nine-Heaven Defended Chamber, the Hóngēn Língjì zhēnjūn, the Jiāngdōng Wáng) — the principal Daoist-canon witness to the medieval Chinese temple-oracle divination tradition.
• Gàn zhōu Shèng jì miào líng jì lǐ 贛州聖濟廟靈跡理 KR5g0113 — 宋濂 Sòng Lián (1310–1381). A Daoist temple stele-record written by the early-Míng’s most senior Confucian literatus — rare cross-disciplinary witness to Confucian patronage of Daoist sanctuaries.

Other free-standing texts of consequence.

• Lǎo zǐ wēi zhǐ lì lüè 老子微旨例略 KR5g0064 — 王弼 Wáng Bì (226–249). The xuán xué 玄學 master’s systematic introduction to the Lǎo zǐ, companion to his Dào dé jīng commentary — the only major WèiJìn philosophical text inside the supplement, and the earliest dateable item in KR5g (commenting on KR5c0088).
• Gě xiān wēng zhǒu hòu bèi jí fāng 葛仙翁肘後備急方 KR5g0115 — 葛洪 Gě Hóng (283–343), revised by 陶弘景 Táo Hóngjǐng. Gě’s “behind-the-elbow” emergency-prescription manual, a foundational Chinese clinical-medicine text containing the earliest description of smallpox.
• Tài píng yù lǎn 太平御覽 KR5g0039 — 李昉 Lǐ Fǎng (925–996) and imperial committee, finished 983. A 10-juàn Daoist extract from the great Sòng lèi shū, included as a quotation-bank of Daoist learning at the back of the section.
• Dòng xuán Líng bǎo wǔ gǎn wén 洞玄靈寶五感文 KR5g0087 — 陸修靜 Lù Xiūjìng (406–477). A foundational early Língbǎo treatise by the patriarch who first systematized the sāndòng scheme.
• Táng Tài gǔ miào yìng Sūn zhēn rén fú shòu lùn 唐太古妙應孫真人福壽論 KR5g0235 — attributed to 孫思邈 Sūn Sīmiǎo (581–682). Ethical-religious “blessings and longevity” tract under the famous physician’s name.

The bibliographic apparatus closing the canon. KR5g — and the Dào zàng itself — ends with the books that index the books.

• Dào zàng mù lù xiáng zhù 道藏目錄詳註 KR5g0239 — Bái Yúnjì 白雲霽, 1626. The standard pre-modern annotated catalogue of the Dào zàng, definitive until Schipper-Verellen 2004.
• Dào zàng quē jīng mù lù 道藏闕經目錄 KR5g0240 — anonymous, 1444–1445. The list of scriptures known from earlier recensions but missing from the 1445 compilation — indispensable index of canonical loss.
• Dào zàng zūn jīng lì dài gāng mù KR5g0241, Dào jiào zōng yuán KR5g0242 — anonymous Míng outline-catalogues of the canon and the lineage-origins of the Daoist tradition.
• Dà Míng Dào zàng jīng mù lù 大明道藏經目錄 KR5g0243 — anonymous Míng editorial board (under 張宇初’s early supervision), 1444–1445. The official table of contents of the 1445 Zhèng tǒng Dào zàng — the canon’s own table of contents.
• Xù Dào zàng jīng mù lù 續道藏經目錄 KR5g0244 — anonymous Míng editor, 1607. The very last text of the Dào zàng: catalogue of the Wàn lì Xù Dào zàng (the 1607 supplement of 56 further texts; the supplement’s actual scriptures sit in KR5h and KR5i). Closes 正一部 and the canon as a whole.

Important persons

• 張陵 (Zhāng Líng / Zhāng Dàolíng, 34–156 [or 178] CE) — founder of the Celestial-Masters tradition (Tiān shī dào) and the iconographic anchor of the entire division, even where he is not the author of named texts; his transmission to disciple 趙昇 underwrites KR5g0082 and the lineage-narrative of KR5g0014.
• 王弼 (Wáng Bì, 226–249) — Wèi-period xuán xué philosopher; author of Lǎo zǐ wēi zhǐ lì lüè KR5g0064, the earliest dated text in the section.
• 葛洪 (Gě Hóng, 283–343) — author of the Bào pǔ zǐ corpus in KR5f; the Zhǒu hòu bèi jí fāng KR5g0115 preserved here is Daoism’s principal medical handbook.
• 陸修靜 (Lù Xiūjìng, 406–477) — LiúSòng Daoist liturgist who codified the sāndòng bibliographic scheme; author of Dòng xuán Líng bǎo wǔ gǎn wén KR5g0087.
• 杜光庭 (Dù Guāngtíng, 850–933) — the great late-Táng / Five-Dynasties Daoist liturgist and historian; author of the monumental rubric compendium Dào mén kē fàn dà quán jí KR5g0034 that supplied the underlying templates for the later SòngMíng compendia in the section.
• 李昉 (Lǐ Fǎng, 925–996) — Northern-Sòng official; chief editor of the Tài píng yù lǎn KR5g0039.
• 王欽若 (Wáng Qīnruò, 962–1025) — Northern-Sòng grand councillor under Zhēnzōng; author of the imperial Daoist hagiography Yì shèng bǎo dé zhuàn KR5g0094 that legitimized Zhēnzōng’s Daoist program.
• 張繼先 (Zhāng Jìxiān, 1092–1127) — 30th Celestial Master and the leading Tiānshī figure at Huīzōng’s court; recorded sayings in KR5g0058.
• 王文卿 (Wáng Wénqīng, 1093–1153) — founding patriarch of the Shén xiāo Thunder-Rites lineage; recorded sayings in KR5g0059.
• 王嚞 (Wáng Zhé, Wáng Chóngyáng, 1113–1170) — founder of Quán zhēn 全真; author of the foundational Chóng yáng lì jiào shí wǔ lùn KR5g0042.
• 馬鈺 (Mǎ Yù / Mǎ Dānyáng, 1123–1184) — senior of the Quánzhēn Seven Patriarchs; recorded sayings in KR5g0043.
• 丘處機 (Qiū Chùjī, 1148–1227) — Quánzhēn patriarch summoned in 1219 by Činggis Qaγan; subject of the travel narrative KR5g0238.
• 李志常 (Lǐ Zhìcháng, 1193–1256) — disciple of Qiū Chùjī and recorder of the Xī yóu jì KR5g0238.
• 尹志平 (Yǐn Zhìpíng, 1169–1251) — Qiū Chùjī’s successor as third-generation Quánzhēn patriarch; recorded sayings in KR5g0119.
• 白玉蟾 (Bái Yùchán, 1194–1229) — Fifth Patriarch of the Southern Lineage (Nán zōng) of Daoist inner alchemy; subject and source of the three-text Hǎiqióng cluster KR5g0116 – KR5g0118.
• 張宇初 (Zhāng Yǔchū, 1359–1410) — 43rd Celestial Master; author of the reform charter Dào mén shí guī KR5g0041 and the collected writings Xiàn quán jí KR5g0120; supervised the early stages of the Zhèng tǒng Dào zàng compilation.
• 宋濂 (Sòng Lián, 1310–1381) — founding early-Míng Confucian official; author of the Daoist temple stele-record KR5g0113.
• 孫思邈 (Sūn Sīmiǎo, 581–682) — Táng yào wáng 藥王 (“King of Medicine”); nominal author of Fú shòu lùn KR5g0235 (the Qiān jīn yào fāng itself is in KR5e).
• 楊羲 (Yáng Xī, 330–386) — Eastern-Jìn visionary medium of the original Shàng qīng revelations; subject of the Sòng hagiography KR5g0237.

Topics

• The institutional priesthood and its ordination registers. The Zhèngyī tradition’s defining feature is the graded transmission of registers (lù 籙) — taxonomies of invocable spirit-officials that the priest receives at successive stages of ordination. The cluster KR5g0017 – KR5g0026 preserves the Sān wǔ méng wēi lù and its successors, the principal canonical record of how a Celestial-Masters priest was constituted.
• The zhāng 章 memorial as the central liturgical act. The Zhèngyī priest’s primary intervention in the cosmos is the submission of memorials to the celestial bureaucracy. KR5g0027 Zhèng yī fǎ wén jīng zhāng guān pǐn preserves the canonical roster of spirit-officials to whom memorials are addressed, and the SòngYuán “great-method” compendia (KR5g0030, KR5g0032) elaborate the full memorial-petition machinery.
• Léi fǎ 雷法 Thunder-Rites and the Sòng “new ritual” lineages. The Sòng dynasties produced a sequence of new Daoist ritual lineages — Tiānxīn 天心 (Heart of Heaven), Shénxiāo 神霄 (Divine Empyrean), Qīngwēi 清微 (Pure Tenuity), Tóngchū 童初 — built around the priest’s invocation of celestial thunder gods for exorcism, healing, and rain-making. The Dào fǎ huì yuán KR5g0029 is the canonical archive of these traditions, anchored doctrinally by 王文卿’s sayings KR5g0059 and the Yuán theoretical apparatus KR5g0062 KR5g0063 KR5g0086 (Skar 2000; Reiter 2007).
• The Tiānshī family and the supervision of the canon. The Zhèng tǒng Dào zàng of 1445 was compiled under successive Celestial Masters of the 43rd–46th generations, beginning with 張宇初. The supplement they supervised contains their own self-representation — KR5g0058 (30th Master), KR5g0041, KR5g0120 (43rd Master) — and the canon they produced terminates with their bibliography KR5g0243.
• The Quán zhēn 全真 cluster inside Zhèngyī. Quánzhēn was institutionally distinct from and at times in tension with the Celestial-Masters lineage that supervised the canon, but its foundational charters were preserved by the 1445 editors inside this very supplement: KR5g0042 – KR5g0044, KR5g0119, KR5g0238. The supplement is therefore the principal Dàozàng witness to the late-imperial co-existence and editorial accommodation of the two great Daoist priestly traditions.
• The Nánzōng 南宗 inner alchemy. The three-text Hǎiqióng cluster KR5g0116 – KR5g0118 documents 白玉蟾’s consolidation of the Southern Lineage of nèi dān, the lineage of Zhāng Bódūan 張伯端 (whose Wù zhēn piān sits elsewhere in the canon).
• The Six-Dynasties Shàng qīng survival. The very large block of 4th-6th-century Shàngqīng scriptures lodged in KR5g0122 – KR5g0211 ff. — including substantial Bā sù zhēn jīng 八素真經 and Yù qīng yǐn shū 玉清隱書 corpora — is the Zhèngyī Supplement’s most striking case of editorial overflow: scriptures whose home in the sāndòng scheme would have been KR5a Dòng zhēn were received through independent transmission and lodged here, making KR5g a major secondary Shàngqīng archive alongside KR5a itself.
• Hagiography and the temple-oracle tradition. The Sān dòng qún xiān lù KR5g0057, the cult-specific hagiographies KR5g0094, KR5g0095, KR5g0237, and the líng qiān oracle-slip block KR5g0107 – KR5g0114 together register the SòngYuán incorporation of regional miracle-worker cults and temple-divination practices into the Daoist canon — the canon’s principal opening to popular religion.
• The canon indexing itself. The closing apparatus KR5g0239 – KR5g0244 makes KR5g the bibliographic terminus of the Dào zàng: Bái Yúnjì’s annotated catalogue of 1626 is the standard pre-modern reference (definitive until Schipper-Verellen 2004); KR5g0240 is the Míng list of texts known but lost; KR5g0243 is the canon’s own 1445 table of contents; KR5g0244 is the catalogue of the 1607 Wànlì supplement whose scriptures sit in KR5h and KR5i.

Timeline

• 226–249 — Lǎo zǐ wēi zhǐ lì lüè 老子微旨例略 KR5g0064 — 王弼; the earliest dated text in the section.
• 283–343 (revised Liáng) — Gě xiān wēng zhǒu hòu bèi jí fāng 葛仙翁肘後備急方 KR5g0115 — 葛洪, revised by Táo Hóngjǐng.
• 317–420 — Zhèng yī tiān shī gào Zhào Shēng kǒu jué 正一天師告趙昇口訣 KR5g0082; Lǎo jūn biàn huà wú jí jīng 老君變化無極經 KR5g0004 — Eastern-Jìn Celestial-Masters texts.
• 330–386 — the lifetime of 楊羲 Yáng Xī; the original Shàng qīng revelations whose Sòng hagiography is KR5g0237.
• 317–589 — the broad Six-Dynasties Shàng qīng scriptural stratum, including KR5g0123, KR5g0124, KR5g0125, KR5g0135, KR5g0136, KR5g0139, KR5g0140 – KR5g0145, KR5g0148, KR5g0152, KR5g0155, KR5g0157 – KR5g0158, KR5g0160, KR5g0161, KR5g0165 – KR5g0167, KR5g0173 – KR5g0175, KR5g0177, KR5g0180, KR5g0182, KR5g0185, KR5g0187, KR5g0189 – KR5g0193, KR5g0198, KR5g0200, KR5g0202, KR5g0218.
• 317–589 — Zhèng yī fǎ wén jīng zhāng guān pǐn 正一法文經章官品 KR5g0027; Zhèng yī fǎ wén tài shàng wài lù yí KR5g0052; Yuán chén zhāng jiào lì chéng lì KR5g0097; Liù shí jiǎ zǐ běn mìng yuán chén lì KR5g0098; Shàng qīng huáng shū guò dù yí KR5g0103 — Six-Dynasties Celestial-Masters liturgical apparatus.
• 420–477 — Sān tiān nèi jiě jīng 三天內解經 KR5g0014 — Xúshì; the lineage’s southern-dynasties self-narrative.
• 420–477 — Dòng xuán Líng bǎo wǔ gǎn wén 洞玄靈寶五感文 KR5g0087 — 陸修靜.
• 618–907 — the broad Táng layer, including the ordination-register codifications KR5g0019, KR5g0020, KR5g0021, KR5g0046, KR5g0048, KR5g0049, KR5g0050, the Celestial-Masters doctrinal Zhèng yī lùn KR5g0037, and the Táng additions to the Shàngqīng Bā sù zhēn jīng cluster KR5g0129 – KR5g0134.
• 712–730 — Jiào sān dòng zhēn wén wǔ fǎ Zhèng yī méng wēi lù lì chéng yí KR5g0021; Dòng xuán Líng bǎo dào shì shòu sān dòng jīng jiè fǎ lù zé rì lì KR5g0049; Chuán shòu sān dòng jīng jiè fǎ lù lüè shuō KR5g0050 — High-Táng ordination liturgies.
• 787–823 — Yì lín 意林 KR5g0071 — Mǎ Zǒng (d. 823).
• 850–933 — Dào mén kē fàn dà quán jí 道門科範大全集 KR5g0034 — 杜光庭.
• 977–983 — Tài píng yù lǎn 太平御覽 KR5g0039 — 李昉 et al.; the great Sòng lèi shū, finished 983.
• 1008–1025 — Yì shèng bǎo dé zhuàn 翊聖保德傳 KR5g0094 — 王欽若 for Sòng Zhēnzōng.
• 1092–1127 — Sān shí dài tiān shī Xū jìng zhēn jūn yǔ lù 三十代天師虛靖真君語錄 KR5g0058 — 張繼先, 30th Celestial Master.
• 1116 — Tài shàng zhù guó jiù mín zǒng zhēn bì yào 太上助國救民總真祕要 KR5g0036 — Yuán Miàozōng.
• 1127–1170 — Lú shān Tài píng xīng guó gōng cǎi fǎng zhēn jūn shì shí KR5g0095 — 葉義問.
• 1140–1200 — Chōng xū tōng miào shì chén Wáng xiān sheng jiā huà 沖虛通妙侍宸王先生家話 KR5g0059 — sayings of 王文卿 (1093–1153).
• 1160–1170 — Chóng yáng lì jiào shí wǔ lùn 重陽立教十五論 KR5g0042 — 王嚞.
• 1150–1184 — Dān yáng zhēn rén zhí yán 丹陽真人直言 KR5g0043 — 馬鈺.
• 1127–1279 — Sān dòng qún xiān lù 三洞群仙錄 KR5g0057 — Chén Bǎoguāng; the Shàng qīng Líng bǎo dà fǎ recensions KR5g0030 / KR5g0032 by Wáng Qìzhēn and Jīn Yǔnzhōng; Xū jìng chōng hé xiān sheng Xú shén wēng yǔ lù KR5g0060; the líng qiān oracle block KR5g0107 – KR5g0114; the SòngYuán scripture cluster opening the division KR5g0001 KR5g0003 KR5g0005 KR5g0007.
• 1188 — Dào mén dìng zhì 道門定制 KR5g0033 — Lǚ Yuánsù.
• 1201 — Dào mén tōng jiào bì yòng jí 道門通教必用集 KR5g0035 — Lǚ Tàigǔ.
• 1219–1228 — Cháng chūn zhēn rén xī yóu jì 長春真人西遊記 KR5g0238 — 李志常 on 丘處機’s Mongol audience; composed 1228.
• 1220–1230 — the Hǎiqióng cluster KR5g0116 KR5g0117 KR5g0118 — 白玉蟾.
• 1228–1251 — Qīng hé zhēn rén Běi yóu yǔ lù 清和真人北遊語錄 KR5g0119 — 尹志平.
• 1271–1368 — the Yuán Quánzhēn / Thunder-Rites block: Quán zhēn zuò bō jié fǎ KR5g0038, Quán zhēn qīng guī KR5g0044 — Lù Dàohé; Dào fǎ xīn chuán KR5g0062 — Wáng Wéiyī; Léi fǎ yì xuán piān KR5g0063 — Wàn Zōngshī; Dào fǎ zōng zhǐ tú yǎn yì KR5g0086 — Dèng Nán.
• 1305 — Dào shū yuán shén qì 道書援神契 KR5g0040 — anonymous Yuán; one of the few exactly-datable Yuán entries.
• 1350–1381 — Gàn zhōu Shèng jì miào líng jì lǐ 贛州聖濟廟靈跡理 KR5g0113 — 宋濂.
• 1380–1410 — Xiàn quán jí 峴泉集 KR5g0120 — 張宇初.
• c. 1400 — Dào mén shí guī 道門十規 KR5g0041 — 張宇初; the early-Míng Tiānshī reform charter.
• 1368–1445 — Dào fǎ huì yuán 道法會元 KR5g0029 — the 268-juàn early-Míng Thunder-Rites compendium; the early-Míng exorcistic ritual block KR5g0028, KR5g0217, KR5g0222 – KR5g0224; Qún xiān yào yǔ zuǎn jí KR5g0066 — Dǒng Hànchún.
• 1444–1445 — Dào zàng quē jīng mù lù 道藏闕經目錄 KR5g0240; Dà Míng Dào zàng jīng mù lù 大明道藏經目錄 KR5g0243 — the Míng catalogues of the canon and of canonical loss.
• 1607 — Xù Dào zàng jīng mù lù 續道藏經目錄 KR5g0244 — catalogue of the Wànlì supplement (texts in KR5h / KR5i); the last item composed for the canon.
• 1626 — Dào zàng mù lù xiáng zhù 道藏目錄詳註 KR5g0239 — Bái Yúnjì; the latest text in the section and the standard pre-modern annotated catalogue of the Dào zàng.