Ge Chaofu

Ge Chaofu (葛巢甫) IVe-Ve centuries, great nephew of Ge Hong and descendant of Ge Xuan is, according to CAT Hongjing, the founder of the school Taoïste Lingbao. It is not mentioned in official annals and one knows almost nothing of his life. Like the other family members Ge, it was to be originating in Jurong (句容) close to Jiankang (建康) (Nankin), the capital of the Eastern Jin. It would be towards 390 qu' it would have composed the first Lingbao gun, that it would have transmitted between 397 and 401 to its disciples Xu Lingqi (徐靈期) and Ren Yanqing (任延慶), thus giving rise to the current. It seems to be based on texts Shangqing and Bouddhiste S, as on a principal text which Ge Xuan and Ge Hong would have had, Writing of the five talismans or Wufujing (五符經). Ge Hong would have transmitted it to his/her older brother, lord of Hai' year (海安君), which would have given it to Ge Chaofu. It acts according to the tradition of an old text whose existence is mentioned as of the posterior Han. Nevertheless, much of modern specialists, like Chen Guofu (陳國符) and Kobayashi (小林正美), think that Ge Xuan and Ge Hong never had this text in hand. Ge Chaofu would at least have been based on the Baopuzi .

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