Early-Táng Daoist liturgist and editor, active c. 700–730 at the court of the Xuánzōng 玄宗 emperor (r. 712–756). One of the most consequential figures in the consolidation of the Táng Daoist ritual-and-ordination tradition. Zhāng compiled an extensive series of Daozang texts — scripture-ordination procedures, phonetic glosses, ritual memorials — which together stabilise the Táng canonical apparatus. His principal works preserved in the Daozang (under various Kanripo IDs) include:
- Dòngxuán língbǎo wúliàng dùrén jīng jué yīnyì 洞玄靈寶無量度人經訣音義 (DZ 95/96), the earliest extant commentary on the Dùrén jīng.
- Sāndòng zhòngjiè wén 三洞眾戒文 (DZ 178), on the Chūzhēn shíjiè 初真十戒 (Ten Rules of Initial Perfection).
- Chuánshòu sāndòng jīngjiè fǎlù lüèshuō 傳授三洞經戒法錄略說 (DZ 1241), on the procedures for bestowing the ordination registers.
- Dòngxuán língbǎo sānshī mínghuì xíngzhuàng jūguān fāngsuǒ wén 洞玄靈寶三師名諱形狀居觀方所文 (DZ 445), on the visualisation of the three teachers-in-lineage at ordination.
Zhāng is the decisive figure for the early-Táng codification of Daoist ritual ordination, as studied in Charles D. Benn, The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711 (University of Hawai’i Press, 1991). His catalogue of the Língbǎo scriptures (transmitted via DZ 1241) is a critical witness to the canonical state of the Táng Daozang. No CBDB record was found.