Includes bibliographical references and index.

Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i: Xuantang Anthology—Series Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Translator’s Preface -- Preface -- 1 Explanatory Abstract -- 2 Recorded Commentary of Xiang’er -- 3 Annotative Discussion -- 4 Annotative Notes --  1 The Origin of the Name “Daoist Religion” --  2 The Genuine Dao, Genuineness of the Dao, and the Genuine Text --  3 Tenets of the Dao --  4 Person of Dao, Daoist Priest, and Transcendent Person --  5 Guarding the One --  6 On Joy and Anger, Auspicious and Inauspicious Fortune --  7 The Sound of Rapidly Plucked Strings in Equilibrium --  8 On Life and Studying Life --  9 Auspicious Talismans of Great Peace --  10 The Natural --  11 Harmonizing the Five Elements --  12 Issuing Forth Prosperity to Overcome Confinement --  13 Halos of the Sun and Moon, and the Guest Who Defiantly Does Not Shine --  14 The Arsenal and Tower, Wolf and Fox, General and Cavalry Officials, Chamber and Spearhead Stars --  15 The Dragon Is without Sons, False Arts --  16 Jade Maiden --  17 Writings of the Yellow Emperor, Mysterious Maiden, and Rong Cheng --  18 Enriching the Marrow and Cherishing the Essence --  19 The Dao Prohibits Sacrificial Tributes to the Dead --  20 Disaster Returns to One’s Descendants --  21 Great Yin --  22 Officials of Earth --  23 Officers of Heaven and the Life-Count --  24 The Corpse and Corpse People --  25 The Compass --  26 The Bright Hall --  27 Straw Dogs --  28 Xi Zhong Made Carts, the Yellow Emperor Made Rooms --  29 Great Virtue --  30 The Character Zhuo 汋 --  31 The Ladle --  32 Rhymed Words in the Xiang’er Commentary --  33 The Title of Laozi’s Book -- 5 Different Explanations of the Xiang’er Commentary -- 6 The Xiang’er Commentary and Heshang Gong’s Section and Verse --  1 Part 1 --  2 Part 2 -- 7 Comparison between the Xiang’er Commentary and Suo Dongxuan Edition -- 8 The Xiang’er Commentary and Scripture of Great Peace -- 9 Supplement to the Lost Texts of the Xiang’er Commentary -- 10 Examining Zhang Daoling’s Writings -- 11 The Nine Precepts and Three Harmonies of the Xiang’er Commentary, with Additional Discussion on the Newly Published Critical Edition of the Scripture of Great Peace -- 12 Continued Discussion of the Xiang’er Commentary --  1 Preface --  2 Addendum to manuscript number 6825 in the Stein Catalogue --  3 Sun Simiao Citing the Precepts of Xiang’er, with Further Discussion of Xiang’er being Called a Transcendent Person --  4 The Nine Practices of the Xiang’er Commentary and Lord Lao’s Visualization Diagram --  5 On the Xiang’er Commentary’s “First was the Scripture then the 5,000-Character Classic as the Daoist Numerical System.” --  6 The Xiang’er Scripture as Received by the Preceptor of Eminent Mystery --  7 Discussing “Do Not Harm the Kingly Breath” in the Twenty-Seven Precepts of Xiang’er and the Scripture of Great Peace --  8 A Brief Record of Daoist Writings Citing the Xiang’er Commentary --  9 Conclusion -- 13 Four Points on the Xiang’er Commentary --  1 The Jixia Academy and the theory of Essence and Breath --  2 The State of Chu and the theory of Proper Breath and Primal Breath --  3 Huang-Lao and the Theory of Identical Breath, Profound Breath, and Tyrant Breath --  4 The “Five Elements” Silk Text and the School of Rites’ Theory of the Breath of Benevolence, Breath of Righteousness, and Breath of Ritual --  5 The Scripture of Great Peace’s theory of Preserving the Primal Breath and Wang Fu’s Theory of the Breath of the Dao --  6 The Early Han Mawangdui Recipe for Nourishing Life and the Theory of Contracting Breath as the Root of Zhang Daoling’s Thought -- Appendices -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.

This work is a translation of the Xiang'er commentary to the Daodejing and Jao Tsung-i's (1917-2018) supplemental notes and analysis. Jao Tsung-i offers a historically and hermeneutically rich study of the Xiang’er Commentary , discovered in the Mogao caves at Dunhuang in the final years of the Qing Dynasty, and its author Zhang Daoling. Opening a new and fascinating window into the early reception of the Daodejing , Jao Tsung-i also uncovers the important influence texts such as the Scripture of Great Peace (Taiping jing) had on Celestial Masters Daoism and the construction of the Xiang'er commentary .

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