Jīnlù shíhuí dùrén wǔcháo kāishōu yí 金籙十迴度人午朝開收儀
Noon-Audience Opening-and-Closing Liturgy for the Ten-Cycle Salvation of Humanity in the Golden-Register Fast
About the work
Second of the shíhuí dùrén kāishōu triad (KR5b0186, KR5b0187, KR5b0188), transmitted under 三儀同卷軆九.
Abstract
The noon kāishōu handles huí 5–8 of the ten-fold recitation cycle, opening and closing each in turn. The huí are distributed across the day in a 4-4-2 pattern: 1–4 in the morning (cf. KR5b0186), 5–8 at noon, and 9–10 in the evening (cf. KR5b0188); the pattern itself encodes the cosmological priority of noon — at the yáng zenith of the day — as the central salvific moment of the rite. Each huí opens with a kāijīng wén 開經文 and closes with a shōujīng wén 收經文, framing the recitation proper (which takes place in the companion zhuǎnjīng rite, KR5b0190).
Per Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 2: 996–997, John Lagerwey), the framework is part of the SòngYuán expansion of the Jīnlù with the Dùrén jīng as its centrepiece; the textual transmission through the Míng Zhèngtǒng dàozàng (1444) places the terminus ante quem of canonisation while the terminus a quo is bounded by the Sòng codification of the shíhuí schema.
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 496, entry by John Lagerwey).