Tàiqīng tàiyī jīnquè yùxǐ jīnzhēn jì 太清太一金闕玉璽金真紀
Annals of the Golden Zhēnrén of the Jade Seal of the Golden Portal of the Supreme One, of the Great Clarity
(The catalog reads 太清; the source file title reads 上清. The Taoist Canon follows the source-file Shàngqīng reading.)
About the work
An eight-folio Táng Shàngqīng apocryphon, transmitted in the Dàozàng in a composite juàn with DZ 392 and DZ 393. The text as a whole is an amalgam of fragments.
Prefaces
No prefaces in the source. The text opens directly with the sub-titled Dùmìng fēixiān fú 度命飛仙符 (“Talisman of the Flying Immortal for Delivering Destiny”) and its cognates, and carries no author preface or transmission colophon.
Abstract
Dated to the Táng by Robinet (Schipper & Verellen, Taoist Canon 1: 613–614, DZ 394). The title is inspired by a title in the biography of Péi jūn 裴君 in Yúnjí qīqiān 105.9b. The present text is quoted under a simplified title Tàiyī jīnzhēn jì 太一金真紀 in Sāndòng zhūnáng 三洞珠囊 5.4a and 3b, and in DZ 1132 Shàngqīng dào lèishì xiàng 2.1b; a passage on 5a is cited in Tàipíng yùlǎn 太平御覽 679.7b. The text therefore circulated under the Táng.
The greater part of the text consists of quotations from the Péi jūn biography mentioned above, together with references to texts outside the Shàngqīng revelation; one long passage (4b) is even entirely alien to the Shàngqīng tradition. Robinet’s characterisation as “apocryphal” reflects this patchwork composition.
Translations and research
- Robinet, Isabelle. La révélation du Shangqing dans l’histoire du taoïsme. 2 vols. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 1984.
- Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, 1:613–614 (DZ 394).