Yùlù zīdù wǔcháo yí 玉籙資度午朝儀
Noon-Audience Liturgy of the Jade-Register Salvific-Aid Fast
About the work
Second of the Yùlù zīdù cháo triad (KR5b0196–KR5b0198), 三儀同卷率二.
Abstract
The noon cháo of the Yùlù repeats the morning structure with substitutions appropriate to the central-zenith moment of the day: the cosmological pivot of yáng power at noon is here directed (paradoxically, on first sight) to the salvation of the yīn — the dead — by enlisting the highest yáng powers to draw the yīn souls upward. The dedication targets the zhōngtiān xīngzhǔ 中天星主 (Lord of Stars of the Central Heaven) and the Báiyùjīng zhūtiān 白玉京諸天 (heavens of the White-Jade Capital). Per Lagerwey (Taoist Canon 2: 1003–1004), the three-fold cosmological articulation of the Yùlù day-cycle, like that of the Jīnlù, encodes the sānyuán 三元 (Three Origins) into the temporal sequence of the rite.
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: 1003–1004 (DZ 502, entry by John Lagerwey).