Sūn Bùèr yuán jūn chuán shù dān dào mì shū sān juàn 孫不二元君傳述丹道祕書三卷
The Three-Juàn Secret Book of the Elixir-Way as Transmitted-and-Narrated by the Primal Lady Sūn Bùèr
planchette-attributed to 孫不二 (Sūn Bùèr) and to 紫光天母 (Zǐguāng tiānmǔ, the Heavenly-Mother of Purple-Light)
A three-juàn pseudepigraphical Quánzhēn / nǚdān compendium, transmitting under Sūn Bùèr’s name three distinct base scriptures: (i) Yù qīng tāi yuán nèi yǎng zhēn jīng 玉清胎元内養真經 (transmitted by Bǎo shén yuán tái zhēn jūn 寶神元臺真君); (ii) Yù qīng wú shàng nèi jǐng zhēn jīng 玉清無上内景真經 (transmitted by Dà luó zhēn tiān yuán tiān dà shèng hòu Zǐ guāng tiān mǔ 大羅真天元天大聖后紫光天母); (iii) a third revelation-scripture (the title less prominently displayed). The framing fiction is cosmological: in primordial time Yuán shǐ shàng dì 元始上帝 instructs the Tàishàng Lǎojūn on the cosmology of jīngqìshén (essence-pneuma-spirit) and on the salvation of the lower realm; the Tàishàng then transmits in turn to the Zǐguāng tiānmǔ; and Zǐguāng tiānmǔ in turn descends through Sūn Bùèr into the world.
Prefaces
No external preface; the text begins directly with the Yù qīng tāi yuán nèi yǎng zhēn jīng opening and proceeds through the three scriptures.
Abstract
A pseudepigraphical Qīng-era Quánzhēn / nǚdān compendium, paired with KR5i0063 Sūn Bùèr yuán jūn fǎ yǔ — the two together comprising the principal Sūn Bùèr canonical pair. Composition is c. late Míng / early Qīng (1500–1750); the cosmology is that of the established Quánzhēn pantheon as it stood in the post-Yún jí qī qiān period.
The framing scripture’s hierarchy of revelation — Yuánshǐ → Tàishàng → Zǐguāng tiānmǔ → Sūn Bùèr — is a standard late-imperial cosmological pedigree-claim, embedding the nǚdān tradition in the highest planchette-pantheon authority chain.
Translations and research
- See secondary literature listed under KR5i0063.
- No critical edition or translation of this specific text located.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5i0064
- Patriarchal frame: 孫不二 (託名).