Yǔ lù dà guān 語錄大觀
Comprehensive Compendium of Recorded Sayings
planchette-attributed yǔlù of 呂洞賓 (Lǚzǔ / Fúyòu shàngdì)
A two-juàn collection of Lǚzǔ’s yǔlù (recorded sayings), structured by topical sub-collections: the Hán sān yǔ lù 涵三語錄 (Triple-Embracing Recorded Sayings) — three-teachings synthesis; Sān bǎo yǔ lù 三寶語錄 — jīngqìshén triad; further specifically inner-alchemical and ethical sub-collections. The opening sayings on the inexpressibility-of-the-Way are pure LǎoZhuāng paraphrase: “The Way that I am unable to know, I am unable to speak; the no-place-to-use my knowing, with no-place-to-be-known; the no-place-to-use my speaking, with no-place-to-be-spoken… the speaker who speaks one’s speakable is the skin of the Way; the knower who knows one’s knowable is the end-section of the Way…” The format is the standard QuánzhēnChán yǔlù: short paragraphs of paradoxical exposition, occasionally framed as Q&A, but mostly continuous-prose homilies.
Prefaces
No external preface; the text begins directly with the first yǔlù.
Abstract
A yǔlù compendium of the Lǚzǔ planchette circle, c. 1700–1750, generically continuous with the Quánzhēn / Lóngmén yǔlù tradition that goes back to the SòngYuán Quánzhēn patriarchs (Wáng Chóngyáng’s Quánzhēn jí xuán mì jí, Mǎ Dānyáng’s Yǔ lù, etc.). The DZJY recension preserves the yǔlù as a stand-alone two-juàn item, distinct from the Wén jí (KR5i0049) and Shī jí (KR5i0050) of the same compendium.
Translations and research
- For Quán-zhēn yǔ-lù: Komjathy, The Way of Complete Perfection (SUNY 2013), ch. 4–5.
- No substantial secondary literature located on this specific text.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5i0053
- Author: 呂洞賓 (託名).