Shàngqīng dàdòng zhēnjīng yùjué yīnyì 上清大洞真經玉訣音義
Jade Instructions and Phonetic Explanations on the “Scripture of the Great Cavern”
Northern-Sòng philological companion to [[KR5a0006|DZ 6 Shàngqīng dàdòng zhēnjīng]] by Chén Jǐngyuán 陳景元 (1025–1094), sixteen folios, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0105 / CT 105 = TC 104), 洞真部 本文類
About the work
A sixteen-folio collection of philological notes on the Dàdòng zhēnjīng 大洞真經 and related Shàngqīng texts by Chén Jǐngyuán 陳景元 (1025–1094). The author uses and compares a number of different versions of the Dàdòng zhēnjīng, the most important of which are the recensions by Zhū Zìyīng 朱自英 ([[KR5a0006|DZ 6 Shàngqīng dàdòng zhēnjīng]]) and by Huángfǔ Xī 皇甫希, both of the period 1023–1031. For variant readings Chén also consulted the now-lost Yīqiè dàojīng yīnyì 一切道經音義 by Shī Chōng 史崇 (see [[KR5a1123|DZ 1123 Yīqiē dàojīng yīnyì miàomén yóuqǐ]]) and an unknown old manuscript (gǔběn 古本).
The work also treats a series of related Shàngqīng texts:
- The nèizhù yǐnwén 內主隱文 (“Hidden Texts of the Inner Invocations”) from the Miémó shénhuì yùjīng yǐnshū ([[KR5a1355|DZ 1355 Shàngqīng tàishàng yùqīng yǐnshū miémó shénhuì gāoxuán zhēnjīng]]).
- The dàojūn yùzhù 道君玉注 (“Precious Glosses of the Old Lord”), corresponding to the revealed commentary partially preserved in YJQQ 8.1a–18b.
- The Huíyuán fǎ 迴元法 (“Method of the Return to the Origin”) as given in [[KR5a1377|DZ 1377 Shàngqīng tàishàng jiǔzhēn zhōngjīng jiàngshēng shéndān jué]] 4b–11a.
- The zǐwén dānzhāng 紫文丹章 (“Cinnabar Stanzas in Purple Writing”) from [[KR5a1355|DZ 1355 Gāoxuán zhēnjīng]] 37b–42b.
- The bǎishén shàngfǎ 百神上法 (“Superior Method of the Hundred Gods”) from the beginning of [[KR5a1360|DZ 1360 Shàngqīng jiǔtiān shàngdì zhù bǎishén nèimíng jīng]], which gives the names of the heavens and earths placed at the end of each section of DZ 6.
Prefaces
No prefaces in the source.
Abstract
Isabelle Robinet, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 2:— (§3.B.4, Shàngqīng), identifies the work as Chén Jǐngyuán’s definitive philological study of the Dàdòng zhēnjīng textual tradition. The commentary places the present DZ 6 edition within Chén’s “Zhū Zìyīng version” / Sāndòng fǎshī Guānmiào xiānshēng běn 三洞法師觀妙先生本 classification. The frontmatter brackets composition notBefore 1067 (Chén’s Sìzhù preface) / notAfter 1094 (Chén’s death), with dynasty 北宋. Chén Jǐngyuán is the sole catalog-meta person wikilinked.
Translations and research
No translation. Standard scholarly entry: Isabelle Robinet, “Shangqing dadong zhenjing yujue yinyi,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.B.4 — KR5a0105 (TC 104) entry. For Chén Jǐngyuán see 陳景元 person note and [[KR5a0087|DZ 87 Sìzhù]].
Other points of interest
The work is one of the earliest Daoist philological-critical-editorial commentaries in the Chinese tradition — predating much of the Sòng classical philology — and the only extant Northern-Sòng systematic textual study of the Dàdòng zhēnjīng recensions. Its methodology — collating multiple recensions against a lost authoritative reference and citing sources explicitly — sets the standard for Daoist textual scholarship within the canon itself.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5a0105
- Schipper & Verellen, The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 2 §3.B.4 — DZ 104 (TC) / KR5a0105 (Kanripo) entry (Isabelle Robinet).