The Heavenly Master of the Suwen’s dialogues; a literary figure with no independent record.
難經
Traditionally attributed to Qin Yueren (Bian Que); in its present form no earlier than the Han.
The Nanjing takes the shape of an examination: eighty-one questions, each pressing on a point the Inner Canon states but does not…
黃帝內經靈樞
Compiled over the same span as the Suwen; the present text was put in order in the Tang.
The Lingshu is the companion volume to the Suwen. Where the Suwen argues from first principles, the Lingshu works at the surface…
黃帝內經素問
c. 3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE; recension c. 762 CE
The foundational dialogue of Chinese medicine, in the recension that survived.