Jīnlù wǔcháo yí 金籙午朝儀
Midday-Audience Liturgy of the Golden-Register Fast
About the work
The sixth of the Dù Guāngtíng Jīnlù 金籙 cycle (KR5b0167–KR5b0181); the midday audience of the Jīnlù-fast daily cháo sequence, transmitted together with KR5b0171 and KR5b0173 as 三儀同卷軆三 (“three liturgies in one fascicle, Tǐ 3”). The opening hymn Yáogē kōngdòng 謡歌空洞 invokes the Dìjūn 帝君, the visualisation of the altar, the five emperors verifying the registers, the three bureaus prepared in guard, and the five gates binding spirit and slaying evil. The structure parallels KR5b0171 and KR5b0173.
Abstract
The midday audience presents the zhōngzhāng 中章 memorial to the celestial bureau at the zǐwǔ meridian. Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 2: 994–996, entry by John Lagerwey) note the close diction-and-structure parallel to the Luótiān dàjiào wǔcháo kē (KR5b0162) and the parallel midday cháo rites of the contemporaneous Huánglù cycle (DZ 507 ff.).
Translations and research
- Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 2: 994–996 (DZ 487, entry by John Lagerwey).
- Verellen, Franciscus. Du Guangting (850–933). Paris, 1989.