Shàngqīng dòngzhēn xuánjīng wǔ jí fú 上清洞真元經五籍符
Five Register-Talismans of the Mysterious Book of the Dòngzhēn Canon
Six-Dynasties Shàngqīng talisman-fragment of [[KR5a1330|DZ 1330 Dòngzhēn tàiyī dìjūn tàidān yǐnshū dòngzhēn xuánjīng]], five folios, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0082 / CT 82), 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A five-folio Shàngqīng scripture containing five register-talismans (wǔ jí fú 五籍符), a fragment drawn from [[KR5a1330|DZ 1330 Dòngzhēn tàiyī dìjūn tàidān yǐnshū dòngzhēn xuánjīng 洞真太一帝君太丹隱書洞真玄經]]. The title Xuánjīng 玄經 (written with 元, a common Daozang-era substitution for the taboo character) is an alternate name for the Tàidān yǐnshū 太丹隱書. The parent scripture (DZ 1330 30a) mentions five such talismans, but only one is reproduced in the full text; the present scripture preserves all five (1a–2b, 2b–4b, and 5a corresponding to DZ 1330 30b–31a, 33a, and 44a).
Prefaces
No prefaces in the source.
Abstract
Isabelle Robinet, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 1:156 (§1.B.2, Shàngqīng), identifies the scripture as a Six-Dynasties talisman-fragment of the Shàngqīng Tàidān yǐnshū tradition. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 420 / notAfter 589, with dynasty 六朝. No author is attributed.
Translations and research
No translation. Standard scholarly entry: Isabelle Robinet, “Shangqing dongzhen yuanjing wuji fu,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 1 §1.B.2, 156. For the parent Tàidān yǐnshū tradition: Robinet, La révélation du Shangqing (EFEO, 1984); Robinet’s entry on DZ 1330 in the same volume.
Other points of interest
The scripture is a useful witness to the Shàngqīng practice of “fragment preservation” — preserving specific talismanic or visualising material from a larger scripture as an independent shorter scripture in the Daozang — which contributed substantially to the canon’s redundancy and to the preservation of material that would otherwise have been lost with the parent scripture.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0082
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 1 §1.B.2, 156 — DZ 82 entry (Isabelle Robinet).