Jīnlù xuánlíng zhuǎnjīng zǎocháo xíngdào yí 金籙玄靈轉經早朝行道儀
Morning-Audience Way-Practice Liturgy for the Recitation of the Mystic-Numinous Scripture in the Golden-Register Fast
About the work
The first of a three-liturgy set, transmitted together with KR5b0184 and KR5b0185 under the rubric 三儀同卷軆八 (“three liturgies in one fascicle, Tǐ 8”). The set is built around the xuánlíng zhuǎnjīng 玄靈轉經 — the ceremonial recitation (“turning”) of the Dùrén jīng 度人經 (i.e. KR5c0010 Yuánshǐ wúliàng dùrén shàngpǐn miàojīng, also T’ai-shang lung-pao tu-jen in SòngYuán Daoist vocabulary) as the central salvific act of the Jīnlù fast.
Abstract
The internal title 玄靈轉經早朝行道儀 (without 金籙) on f. 1a clarifies the position of the rite: this is the early-morning xíngdào 行道 (way-practice; the daoist circumambulatio of the altar with hymns) for the xuánlíng turning of the scripture. The text opens with the jiǔtiān shàngjǐng 九天上景 hymn, then drumming of the fǎgǔ 24 times, the standard summoning of the Wúshàng sāntiān xuányuánshǐ 無上三天玄元始 powers and the dispatch of the celestial messengers, and proceeds to the qǐngxuān invocation, the huíxiàng 迴向 of merit, and the dismissal.
Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 2: 996–997, John Lagerwey) place the xuánlíng set with the parallel shíhuí dùrén sets (KR5b0186–KR5b0188 and KR5b0189–KR5b0191) as SòngYuánMíng accretions to the original Dù Guāngtíng Jīnlù corpus; the catalog’s 明 attribution refers to the date of canonisation in the Zhèngtǒng dàozàng rather than to a Míng-only redaction.
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: 996–997 (DZ 495, entry by John Lagerwey).
- Bokenkamp, Stephen R. Early Daoist Scriptures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 — for the Dùrén jīng text recited here.