Ye Fashan (Image from the Internet)
Ye Fashan's Daoist disciples were numerous, "there are very few people in the history of Taoism." According to historical records such as the "Biography of Tang Ye Zhenren", "New Book of Tang", "Quan Tang Wen" and inscriptions, there are thousands of people. Famous and names can be considered, there are Ye Zhongrong, Emperor Xuanzong, Princess Jinxian, Princess Yuzhen, Yin Yan, Ding Zhengguan, Ji QiWu (a Lu Qiwu) and so on.
Ye Zhongrong
According to the "Biography of Tang Ye Zhenren", Ye Fashan had a suicide note left to him when he was dying: "Ru will enter my poems and books, and shall not seek officials, and when Feng Shao is imprisoned, he will be buried in The Cang." Volume 923 of the Quan Tang Wen contains the Zhongshu of The Disciples written by Ye Fashan.
The disciple Zhongrong, according to the Genealogy of the Ye Clan of The Guangyuan Of 卯峰 Guangyuan, is Ye Wang's twenty-second grandson Ye Xuanguan, and Zhongrong is his character. He was originally the son of Ye Faxian's younger brother Ye Faxi, a nephew of his clan, and later adopted him to Fashan. Zhongrong was originally sima of Hua Prefecture (滑州, in present-day Henan), but was later ordered by Fashan to abandon his official posthumous and become a Taoist priest of the Holy True Temple in Tokyo. He and the envoys helped the funeral, and personally supported the Fa Shan coffin to the side of the Funeral Cang Xuanyang Temple.
Tang Xuanzong
Tang Xuanzong's "Inscription and Preface to Ye Zunshi" several times referred to Fashan as "master", "sir", and "master". According to the "Biography of Tang Ye Zhenren", the disciples of Fashan can confirm that Ye Fashan was given the hoop by Tang Xuanzong and indeed his teacher.
Yuzhen Princess Statue (Image from the Internet)
Princess Jinxian and Princess Yuzhen
Princess Jinxian (金仙公主), courtesy of Emperor Wushang, was the daughter of Emperor Ruizong of Tang and the eighth sister of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
Princess Yuzhen, princess law number supreme, character Xuanyuan. In Tianbao, there is a trumpet to hold a profit. She is the daughter of Emperor Ruizong of Tang, the half-sister of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Princess Jinxian. Princess Yuzhen was born in the first year of Zhou Wuze's Ruyi (692) and died in the first year of Emperor Daizong's reign (762) at the age of 71. According to the Quan Tang Wen, Cai Wei, a Taoist monk of the HongdaoGuan, wrote a stele in the second year of Tianbao (743) titled "Princess Yuzhen's Pilgrimage to zhenyuan palace in Zhenyuan County, receiving the Xiangying of the Spiritual Altar of the Daowang Wushan Xianrentai" Yun: "The princess's legal number is 'supreme', and the character 'Xuanyuan'... Year 28. At the beginning of Jingyun, he was first subjected to the (Que Yizi) Dao in the YueGuo Ye Gong of the Cang Luofu Zhenren. ”
This inscription is recorded in the Qing Dynasty Lu Yaoyun's "Continuation of the Golden Stone" Volume VIII ("New Compilation of Stone Carving Historical Materials" Volume IV), and the Qing Dynasty Bi Yuan's "Zhongzhou Jinshi Ji" Volume III. Princess Kao Yuzhen was a female disciple of Ye Fashan.
According to Ding Huang's research, the Golden Immortal Princess, who first entered the Dao with Princess Yuzhen, was also a female disciple of Fa Shan. At the same time, it was examined that the Golden Immortal and The Princess Of Yuzhen were taught by Shi Chongxuan in the Great Inner Guizhen Temple, and the Five Laws and the Shangqing Law were conferred; the Princess Yuzhen later worshiped Sima Chengzhen and Hu Huichao as teachers.
Yin
On February 26, 739, emperor Xuanzong of Tang personally wrote the "Inscription and Preface to the Inscription and Preface of the Imperial Inscription and Preface to ye Zunshi, the Governor of Yuezhou Province", and on April 23, Yin Yan, a Daoist priest of the Inner Dojo who was then a scholar of the Imperial Academy and an official of the Zhishi Dynasty, was enshrined in Jinglongguan to give a lecture on imperial texts.
According to the "Biography of Tang Ye Zhenren", "Only the disciples Yin Yan and Ji Qiwu saw the secret and did not say anything." The Northern Song Dynasty Daoist monk Jia Shanxiang's "Biography of the High Dao" records that "there were more than a hundred disciples of Fa Shanyou, and only Qi Wu and Yin Yan entered the room." The "History of Chinese Taoism" introduces Ye Fashan's disciples as follows: "Yin Yan, Ji Qiwu, Ding Guanzheng, and Sima Zhongrong, of which Yin Yan and Ji Qiwu were his disciples." ”
These documents will include Yin Yan as a disciple of Ye Fashan, but the Tang Dynasty literature does not provide information on Yin Yan's interactions with Ye Fashan. According to the New Book of Tang, volume 200, "Yin Yan, a native of Tianshui, Qinzhou. Father Sizhen, weak word season. Ming "Spring and Autumn", promoted to GaoDi. Learned from Dr. Guozi Wang Daojue... At the beginning, he was a Taoist priest, Xuanzong ShangXuanyan, a recommender, summoned, happy, generous, consulted the doctor, a scholar of the Jixian Academy, and also studied the history of the country, and he could not afford to resign. ...... At the end of the New Century, he was given a left-hand horseman. ”
According to the above documents, Yin Yan was a Taoist priest of the Tang Kaiyuan Dynasty, the son of Yin Si (Shou) Zhen, an assistant teacher of the Four Doors, and a native of Tianshui, Qinzhou. He was once the Master of the Chang'an Su Ming Guan Guan and was Ye Fashan's disciple, and he did his best. Initially enshrined for Hanlin, in the twenty-fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty (737), he was appointed as a counselor, a scholar and a governor of the Jixian Academy, and died at the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty (740), and was given to Zuo San riding a regular attendant. He is the author of a volume of "Lao Tzu Says the Five Kitchen Sutra Notes", which shows the principle of returning to the truth of nourishing qi.
(Lu) Qiwu
According to the "Biography of Tang Ye Zhenren", "Only the disciples Yin Yan and Lu Qiwu saw the secret and did not say anything. The Taiping Guangji records that the disciples of Fashan were "Ji (Lu) Qiwu, Yin Yan, and Ye Zhongrong."
Li Yong wrote the "Ye Huiming Monument", and at the end of the stele engraved in Jinxiang County, there is "Inspection tree stele attendant Hongzhou Yizhen Guan Lord Lu Qiwu".
Are Lu Qiwu and Ji Qiwu the same person, or are they two people? Historical materials such as the "Ye Hui ming stele", the "Taoist JinShiluo" on page 107, the "Two Zhejiang Jinshi Zhi" volume II, the "Jinshi Continuation" volume VI, and the "Tang Ye Zhenren Biography" all record Lu Qiwu. The Taiping Guangji Ye Fashan Biography, the Yuan Dynasty's "Ancient Immortal Body Dao Tongjian", and the "Tianzhu Guanjie" are recorded as "Ji Qi Wu".
Wu Zhen believes that Lu's traditional character 盧 may be a clerical error of, perhaps the same person. This remains to be seen. This speculation is very reasonable, the two characters are similar, and it is easy to make clerical errors when transcribing.
In the thirteenth year of the Great Calendar (778), the Zhongyue Daoist monk Wu Yun wrote the "Heavenly Pillar Guan jie", recording the creation and prosperity of the tianzhu temple, the predecessor of this palace, "Later, the Daoist priests Zhang Quan, Ye Fashan, Zhu Junxu, Sima Ziwei, Ji Qiwu, and Xiahou Ziyun were all high streams, or lived or traveled, and forgot to return in poor years", it can be seen that Ye Fashan and Ji Qiwu once swam in the Tianzhu Temple. The degree master of Ji Qiwu was Zhu Faman (Zi Junxu), a Tianshi Daoist priest who wrote "To Cultivate the Discipline of Discipline" in the early years of Tang Kaiyuan.
According to research, Ye Fashan's pseudonymous disciples included Zhan Xuanyi and Ding Zhengguan, and then passed on his disciples Shen Fahu, Zhang Tanxuan, Tian Xianliao, Tian Mingde, and so on.
(The author of this article: Zhou Weihua, the article was originally published in the Journal of Jiaxing University, September 5, 2015)