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Daode baozhang 道德寶章

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Title: The Precious Stanzas of The Way and Its Virtue.

Other Titles: Chan xian jie Lao 蟾仙解老 (Explanation of the Laozi by the Immortal Bai Yuchan).

Attribution: Bai Yuchan 白玉蟾.

Date: Ca. 1225 (?).

Prefaces and Postfaces: No preface or postface.

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Siku quanshu zongmu tiyao

宋葛長庚撰。長庚字白叟,閩清人。為道士,居武夷山。舊本題紫清真人白玉蟾。白玉蟾其別號,紫清真人則嘉定間徵赴闕下所封也。其書隨文標識,不訓詁字句,亦不旁為推闡,所注乃少於本經,語意多近於禪偈,蓋佛、老同源故也。此本為元趙孟頫手書,鈎摹雕版,字畫絕為精楷。明陳繼儒亦嘗刻之《匯秘笈》中,改題曰《蟾仙解老》,非其本目。又前有萬曆癸未適園居士跋二則,其前一則稱董《藏書志》述張道相集古今注《老子》四十餘家,不載是編。案晁氏《讀書志》,張道相乃唐天寶後人,安能以南宋寧宗時書著之於錄?且道相所集凡二十九家,並其自注為三十家,亦無所謂四十餘家者。跋所云云,殆於道聽途說矣。長庚世傳其神仙,而《劉克莊集》有王隱居《六學九書》序,稱所見丹家四人,鄒子益不登七十,曾景建、黃天谷僅六十,白玉蟾夭死。又陳振孫《書錄解題·群仙珠玉集》條下云,白玉蟾葛其姓,福之閩清人,嘗得罪亡命,蓋奸妄流也。余宰南城,有寓公稱其人云,近嘗過此,曾相識否?余言此輩何可使及吾門云云。二人與長庚同時,其說當確,流俗所傳,殆出附會。然道家自尊其教,往往如此。其書既頗有可取,則其人亦不足深詰矣。

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For the abbreviations, see the page on the edition.

  • 四庫全書【子部・道家類】 SK 8   [repr. ZWDS 1]
  • 清刊本 (道德經寶章注)  [repr. DZJH 15/3 (JH 485)]
  • [...](蟾仙解老)  [repr. ZWDS 1]

Digital Text

  • WikiSource (Siku quanshu edition) [checked 3 Apr 2026]

Translations

  • Cadonna, Alfredo. “Quali parole vi aspettate che aggiunga?”: Il commentario al Daode jing di Bai Yuchan, maestro taoista del XIII secolo. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001.

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