Texts
text records from the texts content collection — 10 records.
| id | title | chinese | author | dynasty | genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| baopuzi | Baopuzi (The Master Who Embraces the Uncarved Block) | 抱朴子 | Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343/363) | Eastern Jin (composed c. 314–320s CE) | Daoist compendium: inner chapters (esoteric practice), outer chapters (essays on government and society) |
| daodejing | Daodejing (the Book) | 道德经 | Laozi (traditional attribution; authorship uncertain) | Traditional date 6th c. BCE; earliest manuscripts pre-300 BCE (Guodian) | compiled aphorisms and verse on the Way and its power |
| huangting-jing | Huangting Jing (the Book) | 黄庭内景经 | Traditional attribution to Lady Wei Huacun (魏华存); actual author unknown | Dated variously late Han to 4th c. CE; associated with the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) revelations | revealed scripture; inner visualization and alchemy in verse |
| liezi | Liezi (The Book of Master Lie) | 列子 | Attributed to Lie Yukou 列御寇 (Master Lie); received text traditionally edited by Zhang Zhan 张湛 (Jin dynasty), with later layers disputed | Attributed to the Warring States period; received text dated by modern scholarship to the Jin era (3rd–4th c. CE), with earlier material preserved within it | Daoist classic; fable collection; one of the 'Four True Classics' (四子真经) of the Tang Daoist canon |
| neiguan-jing | Neiguan Jing (Scripture of Inner Observation) | 太上老君内观经 | Anonymous (attributed to Taishang Laojun) | Sui–Tang transition (scholarly dating) | Daoist scripture; contemplative method text |
| qingjing-jing | Qingjing Jing (Scripture of Clarity and Stillness) | 太上老君说常清静经 | Anonymous (attributed to Taishang Laojun, the deified Laozi) | Composed Six Dynasties–early Tang (scholarly dating); traditionally much earlier | Daoist scripture; daily recitation text |
| taiping-jing | Taiping Jing (Scripture of Great Peace) | 太平经 | Traditionally revealed to Yu Ji 于吉; presented at court by Gong Chong 宫崇 | Eastern Han (2nd c. CE); received text is a Ming Daoist Canon remnant | Daoist scripture; master-disciple dialogues; the canon of the early Taiping movement |
| xiao-zhiguan | Xiao Zhiguan (the Book) | 童蒙止观 | Zhiyi (智顗, 538–597), Tiantai master; recorded by his disciple Guanding (灌顶) | Later 6th c. CE (Sui) | Buddhist meditation manual; 'calming-and-insight' (samatha-vipasyana) for beginners |
| zhuangzi | Zhuangzi (the Book) | 庄子 | Zhuang Zhou (traditional attribution for the Inner Chapters); multiple anonymous authors for the rest | Warring States (4th–2nd c. BCE); received edition fixed by Guo Xiang (d. 312) | philosophical anthology: parables, dialogues, satires |
| zuowang-lun | Zuowang Lun (Treatise on Sitting in Oblivion) | 坐忘论 | Sima Chengzhen (647–735) | Tang | Daoist meditation treatise |