How the Xingming Gui Zhi influenced Zhao Bichen’s Manual
Original Chinese Language Article By: Qianfeng Daoist Master Zhao Ming Wang (赵明旺)
(Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD)
This is in reference to Fu Fengying’s (傅凤英) February 2012 ‘Religious Studies’ journal article that correctly suggests a developmental link between the Ming Dynasty text entitled ‘Xingming Gui Zhi’ (性命圭旨) – or the ‘Principles of Inner Essence and Longevity’ – By Yin Zhen Ren (尹真人) and Zhao Bichen’s (赵避尘) famous manual entitled ‘Xingming Fa Jue Ming Zhi’ (性命法诀明指) – or ‘The Secret Cultivation of Essential Nature and Eternal Life’.
Abstract: The Xingming Gui Zhi has been a very influential and much respected book of Daoist self-cultivation techniques since its inception during the Ming Dynasty. Although the actual author of this work is not certain, it records the Daoist methods of inner self-cultivation of the vital force (qi) in the energy centre(s) (neidan) so that a state of robust health and longevity (Immortality) can be attained. Zhao Bichen of the Tao Yuan Temple (桃源观 – Tao Yuan Guan) in Beijing is the Founder of the Qianfeng School of Daoist self-cultivation, and his famous manual ‘Xingming Fa Jue Ming Zhi’ is believed to have been authored (by him) in 1933. However, a close and careful reading of both manuals suggests that the latter was influenced by the former. Zhao Bichen’s manual has become a highly influential text in its own right, but it shares many common features with the Xingming Gui Zhi. The two books serve as depositories of information for the practice of self-cultivation that achieves two clear and distinct aims, namely 1) robust health, and 2) longevity. Both integrate Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism and perceives these three and distinct schools of thought as sharing a single and identical essence – it is this essence that is cultivated in the furnace or stove (through meditation and visualisation). Both share a common strength of effort (功理 – Gong Li) and a common direction of development (功法 – Gong Fa). Their shared connection is seen even in the similarity of the two titles – ‘Xingming Gui Zhi’ and ‘Xingming Fa Jue Ming Zhi’.
Xingming Gui Zhi – and its great influence (Author: Beijing Union University Institute of Nationalities and Religions)
The Xingming Gui Zhi is a highly influential book originating at an unknown date during the Ming Dynasty that specialises in the practice of Daoist ‘neidan’ exercises. Despite its fame, the exact author is unknown, which is not an uncommon situation for many Daoist books. However, the teachings recorded in the manual are believed to have first become known amongst the high disciples of Yin Zhen Ren, and so it is possible that Yin Zhen Ren was the originator. It is thought that these teachings were eventually written down for the first time during the Ming Dynasty but did not become famous until the latter Qing Dynasty.
Daojia, Qianfeng Prenatal School
Qianfeng Hermitage – Zhao Mong Wang
©opyright: Adrian Chan-Wyles (ShiDaDao) 2015.
Original Chinese Language Source Article: http://752315496.blog.163.com/blog/static/8830018220133161350189/
《宗教学研究》 2012年02期浅论《性命圭旨》对《性命法诀明指》的影响傅凤英
【摘要】:《性命圭旨》是明代以来较有影响的道教内丹典籍之一,被誉为内丹学集大成之作,著者和成书年代均不详。《性命法诀明指》为北京桃源观千峰派创始人赵避尘所著,一般认为成书于民国二十二年,是近代道教内丹重要著作。细读二书就会发现,此二书均以性命双修为圭旨,融儒、释、道三教内修要旨于一炉,博采众家之说。无论是从书名、结构到具体内容,无论是从功理还是功法上,二书都存在很多相同之处。显然,《性命法诀明指》一书直接或间接受到
《性命圭旨》的较大影响。
【作者单位】: 北京联合大学民族与宗教研究所;
《性命圭旨》是明代以来较有影响的道教内丹典籍之一,像大多数道经一样,此书著者不详,托为尹真人高弟所著,因此有关《性命圭旨》的成书年代及著者一直是个悬案。目前最普遍的看法是此书首创于明代,但直到清末才变得有名。至于书的作者,大多版本标明是尹真人高弟,至于这位尹真
道家千峰先天派
千峰草堂 :赵明旺
Abstract: The Xingming Gui Zhi has been a very influential and much respected book of Daoist self-cultivation techniques since its inception during the Ming Dynasty. Although the actual author of this work is not certain, it records the Daoist methods of inner self-cultivation of the vital force (qi) in the energy centre(s) (neidan) so that a state of robust health and longevity (Immortality) can be attained. Zhao Bichen of the Tao Yuan Temple (桃源观 – Tao Yuan Guan) in Beijing is the Founder of the Qianfeng School of Daoist self-cultivation, and his famous manual ‘Xingming Fa Jue Ming Zhi’ is believed to have been authored (by him) in 1933. However, a close and careful reading of both manuals suggests that the latter was influenced by the former. Zhao Bichen’s manual has become a highly influential text in its own right, but it shares many common features with the Xingming Gui Zhi. The two books serve as depositories of information for the practice of self-cultivation that achieves two clear and distinct aims, namely 1) robust health, and 2) longevity. Both integrate Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism and perceives these three and distinct schools of thought as sharing a single and identical essence – it is this essence that is cultivated in the furnace or stove (through meditation and visualisation). Both share a common strength of effort (功理 – Gong Li) and a common direction of development (功法 – Gong Fa). Their shared connection is seen even in the similarity of the two titles – ‘Xingming Gui Zhi’ and ‘Xingming Fa Jue Ming Zhi’.
Xingming Gui Zhi – and its great influence (Author: Beijing Union University Institute of Nationalities and Religions)
The Xingming Gui Zhi is a highly influential book originating at an unknown date during the Ming Dynasty that specialises in the practice of Daoist ‘neidan’ exercises. Despite its fame, the exact author is unknown, which is not an uncommon situation for many Daoist books. However, the teachings recorded in the manual are believed to have first become known amongst the high disciples of Yin Zhen Ren, and so it is possible that Yin Zhen Ren was the originator. It is thought that these teachings were eventually written down for the first time during the Ming Dynasty but did not become famous until the latter Qing Dynasty.
Daojia, Qianfeng Prenatal School
Qianfeng Hermitage – Zhao Mong Wang
©opyright: Adrian Chan-Wyles (ShiDaDao) 2015.
Original Chinese Language Source Article: http://752315496.blog.163.com/blog/static/8830018220133161350189/
《宗教学研究》 2012年02期浅论《性命圭旨》对《性命法诀明指》的影响傅凤英
【摘要】:《性命圭旨》是明代以来较有影响的道教内丹典籍之一,被誉为内丹学集大成之作,著者和成书年代均不详。《性命法诀明指》为北京桃源观千峰派创始人赵避尘所著,一般认为成书于民国二十二年,是近代道教内丹重要著作。细读二书就会发现,此二书均以性命双修为圭旨,融儒、释、道三教内修要旨于一炉,博采众家之说。无论是从书名、结构到具体内容,无论是从功理还是功法上,二书都存在很多相同之处。显然,《性命法诀明指》一书直接或间接受到
《性命圭旨》的较大影响。
【作者单位】: 北京联合大学民族与宗教研究所;
《性命圭旨》是明代以来较有影响的道教内丹典籍之一,像大多数道经一样,此书著者不详,托为尹真人高弟所著,因此有关《性命圭旨》的成书年代及著者一直是个悬案。目前最普遍的看法是此书首创于明代,但直到清末才变得有名。至于书的作者,大多版本标明是尹真人高弟,至于这位尹真
道家千峰先天派
千峰草堂 :赵明旺