Records of the Assembled Immortals of the Western Hills西山群仙会真记
- Also known as
- Qunxian Huizhen Ji (Records of the Assembled Immortals Meeting with the Perfected), Huizhen Ji (Records of Meeting with the Perfected)
- Author / transmission
- Shi Jianwu
- Period
- Five Dynasties–Northern Song · Attributed to Shi Jianwu as author and Li Song as compiler; composed around the 10th–11th centuries.
- Canon division
- Dongzhen Section, Fangfa Category
- Collected in
- Zhengtong Daozang, Dongzhen Section, Methods category
- Category
- Alchemical Texts
- Fascicles
- In five scrolls, twenty-five chapters.
Synopsis
The Xishan qunxian huizhen ji (Records of the Assembled Immortals of the Western Hills) is one of the three books of Zhong–Lü elixir methods, attributed to the "Perfected Huayang" Shi Jianwu; it expounds the essentials of internal alchemy transmitted at Xishan (Nanchang) in the lineage of Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin. The whole work comprises five scrolls and twenty-five chapters, organized around the five characters shi (recognize), yang (nourish), bu (supplement), zhen (true) and lian (refine): recognizing the Dao, the method, the person, the timing, and things; nourishing life, form, qi, mind and longevity; supplementing the interior, qi, essence, benefit and deficiency; the true water and fire, the true dragon and tiger, the true elixir medicine, the true lead and mercury, and the true yin and yang; and refining the method to enter the Dao, refining form into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit to merge with the Dao, and refining the Dao to enter sagehood. Proceeding by successive stages, it draws together the doctrines of the Cantong qi, the Huangting jing and the Yinfu jing, and was an essential introductory text of Song–Yuan internal alchemy, cited by both the Quanzhen school and the Southern Lineage.
Key Ideas
- Five headings — recognize, nourish, supplement, true, refine — and twenty-five sub-topics
- Proceeding from nourishing life by stages to refining spirit and merging with the Dao
- Distinguishing the true yin and yang from the true lead and mercury
- Systematization of the Zhong–Lü elixir methods
Structure
Five scrolls, five chapters each.
Editions
- Zhengtong Daozang edition
- Daozang jiyao edition
Full Text & Online Resources
Related scriptures
Anthology of Zhongli Quan's Transmission of the Dao to Lü Dongbin, Complete Methods of the Numinous Treasure (Lingbao bifa)Related figures
Shi Jianwu, Zhongli Quan, Lü Dongbin- 任继愈主编《道藏提要》
- 卿希泰主编《中国道教史》第二卷