Collected Works of Wang Chongyang on Complete Perfection重阳全真集
- Also known as
- Quanzhen Ji (Collected Works on Complete Perfection)
- Author / transmission
- Wang Chongyang
- Period
- Jin · Wang Chongyang's poems and lyrics, compiled by his disciples after his death (after 1170), published around the late 12th century.
- Canon division
- Taiping Section
- Collected in
- Zhengtong Daozang, Taiping Section.
- Category
- Alchemical Texts
- Fascicles
- In thirteen scrolls.
Synopsis
The Chongyang Quanzhen ji (Collected Works of Wang Chongyang on Complete Perfection) is a collection of Wang Chongyang's poetry and prose, in thirteen juan, containing over a thousand poems, lyrics, songs and eulogies along with a small amount of prose, most of it written while he was preaching in Zhongnan and Shandong, the collection taking its name from Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) to signal its guiding purpose. The works use accessible poetry and lyrics to urge people to leave the household and cultivate the Dao, stating that 'recognizing the heart-mind and seeing one's nature is the awakening of Complete Perfection' and that one should 'cultivate nature first and life afterward,' expounding clarity, stillness and non-action, the elimination of emotion and desire, and abstention from wine, lust, wealth and anger; the collection also includes replies to disciples and inscriptions presented to lay Daoists, and stands alongside the Chongyang jiaohua ji and the Chongyang fenli shihua ji. This collection is firsthand material for understanding the thought of the founding period of Quanzhen Daoism, its methods of proselytizing, and Wang Chongyang's own life, and also reflects the character of Daoist poetry and lyric composition in the Jin dynasty.
Key Ideas
- Complete Perfection: recognizing the heart-mind and seeing one's nature
- Dual cultivation of nature and life, nature before life
- Abstaining from wine, lust, wealth and anger; leaving the household in clarity and stillness
- Proselytizing through poetry and lyrics
Structure
Thirteen juan, classified by genre — poems, lyrics, songs, and so on.
Editions
- Zhengtong Daozang edition
- Bai Ruxiang (ed.), Wang Chongyang ji (Qilu Books, 2005)
Translations
- Partial English translation by Louis Komjathy
Full Text & Online Resources
Related scriptures
Fifteen Discourses of Wang Chongyang on Establishing the Teaching, Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Danyang (Ma Yu), Anthology of Panxi (Qiu Chuji)Related figures
Wang Chongyang, Ma Yu, Sun Bu'er- 白如祥辑校《王重阳集》
- 任继愈主编《道藏提要》
- 陈垣《南宋初河北新道教考》