ALCHEMY AND SELF-CULTIVATION IN LITERARY CIRCLES
OF THE NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY SU SHI Hc#t (1037-1101) AND HIS TECHNIQUES OF SURVIVAL
Farzeen Baldrian-Hussein
Introduction
The period known as the Northern Song (960- 1 1 27) was a dynamic one in the history of Taoist techniques of self-cultivation. The changes that had already begun during the end of the Tang and the strife-ridden Five Dynasties became systematized and organized during this time. Although self-cultivation during the
The numbers of the Daozang JE$t*M.M (hereafter: DZ) refers to K..M. Schipper's Concordance du Tao-tsang (Paris, PEFEO 1975) and the Index to the Daozang ïEfâiMM (S £1^31), reprint published in Taipei by the Yiwen yinshu guan HJtÉHlrlB (1977). For other abbreviations, see below, p. 47.
Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 9 (1996-1997) : 15-53.
