Jīnlù qídǎo wǎncháo yí 金籙祈禱晚朝儀
Late-Audience Petitionary Liturgy of the Golden-Register Fast
About the work
The fourteenth and last of the Dù Guāngtíng Jīnlù 金籙 cycle’s three cháo longevity rites (KR5b0167–KR5b0181), transmitted together with KR5b0178 and KR5b0179 as 三儀同卷軆六. The internal title of the source is Jīnlù qíshòu wǎncháo yí 金籙祈壽晚朝儀, the catalog variant qídǎo 祈禱 broadening qíshòu 祈壽 to a generic “petition.”
Abstract
The evening cháo closes the day’s three-fold audience and, by ritual logic, brings the petitioning of the longevity gods to a conclusion before the formal closing of the Jīnlù fast (see KR5b0175, the jiětán yí 解壇儀, “altar-dismissal liturgy”). The structural parallels with KR5b0173 (the evening cháo of the standard Jīnlù) and KR5b0178–KR5b0179 are exact: same opening hymn, same drumming of the fǎgǔ 法鼓 24 times, same enumeration of the celestial recipients in the qǐngchēng fǎwèi 請稱法位, but with the qǐngxuān invocations directed to the longevity gods (Nánjí chángshēng dàdì 南極長生大帝, Tàiyī 太一, the Sīmìng 司命).
Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 2: 996, John Lagerwey) treat the three texts as a unit and assign them, with the rest of the longevity Jīnlù set, to Dù Guāngtíng’s own activity at the Former Shǔ court of Wáng Yǎn 王衍 in the second decade of the tenth century.
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: 996 (DZ 492, entry by John Lagerwey).
- Verellen, Franciscus. Du Guangting (850–933). Paris, 1989.