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 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 (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 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 (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 DZ 1377 Shàngqīng tàishàng jiǔzhēn zhōngjīng jiàngshēng shéndān jué 4b–11a.
- The zǐwén dānzhāng 紫文丹章 (“Cinnabar Stanzas in Purple Writing”) from DZ 1355 Gāoxuán zhēnjīng 37b–42b.
- The bǎishén shàngfǎ 百神上法 (“Superior Method of the Hundred Gods”) from the beginning of 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
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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
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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 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).