Jīnlù shíhuí dùrén wǎncháo kāishōu yí 金籙十迴度人晚朝開收儀
Late-Audience Opening-and-Closing Liturgy for the Ten-Cycle Salvation of Humanity in the Golden-Register Fast
About the work
Third and concluding piece of the shíhuí dùrén kāishōu triad (KR5b0186, KR5b0187, the present text), under 三儀同卷軆九.
Abstract
The evening kāishōu handles the final two huí (9 and 10) of the recitation cycle plus the cumulative shōujīng of the whole day’s ten-fold sequence. The dedication paragraphs of the evening huí are correspondingly the longest and most elaborate, addressing the cosmic salvation of the dead in all ten regions, the qīzǔ 七祖 (seven generations of ancestors), and the protection of the bāngjiā 邦家 (the realm). Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 2: 996–997, John Lagerwey) underline the function of the kāishōu set as the structural skeleton of the Jīnlù’s scriptural-recitation phase, complementing the recitation rites proper of KR5b0189–KR5b0191.
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).