中晚唐道教转型时期的心性修仙观

View of Becoming Immortal from Nature of Mind during the Daoist Transformation of the Mid-Late Tang Dynasty

中晚唐道教转型时期,狂热炼丹的技术环节失败、注重心性的致仙理论形成。这种心性修仙观是唐宋之际道教由外丹过渡到内丹及神仙思想演变过程中的一个重要环节,不仅在道教转型时期理论中占有重要地位,而且对中晚唐以来的宗教、哲学、文学都有深远的影响。

During the transformations in Daoism occurring in the Mid and Late Tang period, the obsession over techniques for the concoction of medicines and elixirs towards the achievement of immortality had ended in failure, and attention became focused on the formation of theories involving the cultivation of inner nature and temperament＇ s role in this quest. This view of becoming immortal from nature of mind constituted a key phase in the process whereby external techniques offering immortal status gave way to internalmethods during Tang Song era, standing not only in a crucial position within the theoretical background during this phase of transition within Daoism, but exerting a deep influence on religion, philosophy and literature in general from the Mid -Late Tang era forward.