Yellow Plain Book - Esoteric Q&A on Rites 灵宝净明黄素书释义秘诀

Author unknown.

It is presumably a Taoist text of the Pure Brightness Sect from the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, and is included in the Methods category of the Dongxuan Section of the Daozang.

Yellow Plain Book - Esoteric Q&A on Rites

The entire text is structured as a disciple named Fang Wen posing questions to his True Master about the Taoist methods contained in the Pure Brightness Yellow Silk Scripture, with the True Master providing detailed answers one by one. The questions cover various Taoist arts including Internal Alchemy, the Dharma of Delivering All Beings, the Thunder Dharma of the Five Thunder Gods, the Great Elixir Dharma of the Sword Formula, and the Dharma of the Six Ding Maidens. The text quotes alchemical scriptures of the Zhong-Lü Golden Elixir school, and its theories were influenced by the Quanzhen Sect.