Scripture of the Azure Garden 碧苑坛经
Paul PengScripture of the Azure Garden
Also known as The Mind Essentials of the Longmen Sect.
In the second year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1663), Wang Changyue, a patriarch of the Longmen Sect of The Quanzhen Dao, opened an altar to deliver precepts at the Green Garden in Nanjing. Parts of his teachings were recorded and compiled by his disciples into The Mind Essentials of the Longmen Sect.
Scripture of the Azure Garden
Later, someone changed the title to The Altar Scripture of the Green Garden and added an extra chapter Penetrating the Primordial Mechanism at the end, falsely attributing it to Wang Changyue.
The revised edition was first included in The Hidden Chamber Library of Ancient Books compiled by Min Xiaogen.
See the entry for The Mind Essentials of the Longmen Sect.
