Tàixiāo lángshū qióngwén dìzhāng jué 太霄琅書瓊文帝章訣

Formula of the Emperor’s Stanzas in Precious Writing, Jewel Book of the High Heavens

Six-Dynasties Shàngqīng jué 訣 (ritual-formula) companion-scripture to [[KR5a0055|DZ 55 Gāoshàng tàixiāo lángshū qióngwén dìzhāng jīng]], ten folios, preserved in the Zhèngtǒng Dàozàng 正統道藏 (DZ 0130 / CT 130 = TC 129), 洞真部 本文類

About the work

A ten-folio Six-Dynasties Shàngqīng scripture identical to juan 5 of [[KR5a1332|DZ 1332 Dòngzhēn tàishàng tàixiāo lángshū]], containing prescriptions for the copying of sacred scriptures and rules pertaining to the gifts to be offered by the disciple at the time of transmission of the scriptures, together with various other ritual prescriptions. This text and DZ 55 correspond to number 30 of the Shàngqīng dàdòng zhēnjīng mù 上清大洞真經目.

Prefaces

No prefaces in the source.

Abstract

Isabelle Robinet, in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004) 1:181 (§1.B.2, Shàngqīng), dates the text to the Six Dynasties and identifies it as the jué (ritual-formula) companion to DZ 55. 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, “Taixiao langshu qiongwen dizhang jue,” in Schipper & Verellen eds., The Taoist Canon (2004), Vol. 1 §1.B.2, 181.