Tiān xiān jīn dān xīn fǎ 天仙金丹心法
Heart-Method of the Heavenly-Immortals’ Golden Elixir
planchette-revealed inner-alchemical curriculum attributed to 呂洞賓; sixteen-chapter standard
A four-juàn inner-alchemical xìngmìngshuāngxiū manual organised in sixteen chapters that constitute the standard step-by-step curriculum of late-Qīng Lóngmén inner alchemy: (1) lì zhì establish-aspiration, (2) duān pǐn uprightening-character, (3) huǐ guò repenting-faults, (4) qiān shàn moving-toward-good, (5) zhù jī laying-foundation, (6) liàn jǐ refining-self, (7) ān lú settling-the-furnace, (8) cǎi yào gathering-the-medicine (with xià sub-section), (9) qǐ huǒ starting-fire, (10) xī huǒ stilling-fire, (11) jié tāi knotting-the-foetus, (12) yǎng yīng nourishing-the-infant, (13) jī xíng accumulating-conduct, (14) xíng gōng enacting-merit, (15) miàn bì facing-the-wall, (16) fēi shēng flying-up. The structural sequence is the most ordered of the DZJY nèidān curricula and provides the standard exposition of the southern-school path that fed into the late-Qīng / Republican-era Taoist Yoga literature.
Prefaces
The mu-lù (table of contents) opens directly without a separate preface; the chapter-16 (fēi shēng) bears the Japanese-edition note YP-Z 不在 indicating that some early DZJY recensions truncated the text at chapter 15. Other than this, no preface or postface is preserved.
Abstract
A late-Qīng fújī-revealed inner-alchemical curriculum on Lǚ-zǔ-tradition lines, organised in 16 chapters that map a complete xìngmìng path from preparation through ascension. The text became one of the more influential mid-Qīng nèidān manuals and is the basis of much late-Qīng / Republican-era systematic exposition (e.g., the Wǔ Liǔ Xiānzōng compendia at KR5i0066–KR5i0070). Composition c. 1700–1809.
The jǐ jī / liàn jǐ / ān lú / cǎi yào / qǐ huǒ / xī huǒ / jié tāi / yǎng yīng sequence is the textbook southern-school nèidān phasing, but framed here under a strong front-end of moral preparation (chapters 1–4) which the southern school had previously left implicit.
Translations and research
- For the Lóng-mén nèi-dān curriculum literature: Esposito, Facets of Qing Daoism (2014).
- No critical edition or translation of the Tiān xiān jīn dān xīn fǎ located.