三洞法服科戒文

Sān dòng fǎ fú kē jiè wén 三洞法服科戒文

Code of Precepts on Dharma-Robes of the Three Caverns

by 張萬福 (Zhāng Wànfú, fl. 713) — early-Táng Daoist master

A Táng code of precepts on Daoist monastic robes (fǎ fú 法服) by the early-Táng Daoist master Zhāng Wànfú 張萬福 (fl. 713). The Three Caverns (sān dòng 三洞) frame — referring to the three foundational revelation-categories of the Daoist canon (Dòng zhēn 洞真 Shàngqīng, Dòng xuán 洞玄 Língbǎo, Dòng shén 洞神 Sānhuáng) — structures the robes-and-precepts discussion. Preserved as DZ 788 / CT 788 (Dòngshén bù, Jiè lǜ lèi 洞神部戒律類).

About the work

Contents

The text prescribes:

1. Daoist monastic-clerical robes (fǎ fú 法服) appropriate to each of the Three Caverns and to each rank of ordination.
2. Precepts and rules associated with the wearing of the robes — proper conduct, ritual usage, maintenance.
3. Hierarchical rank-system of Daoist ordinands and their visual-ritual distinctions through robe-type and colour.

Author

Zhāng Wànfú 張萬福 (fl. 713) — early-Táng Daoist patriarch active under Xuánzōng 玄宗. One of the major codifying-scholarly figures of Táng Daoism, contemporary with and complementary to Sīmǎ Chéngzhēn 司馬承禎. Author of several liturgical and disciplinary texts preserved in the Daozang.

Dating. Active 713 (attested). Dynasty: 唐.

Translations and research

• Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, DZ 788 entry.
• Benn, Charles D. The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1991. For the Zhāng Wànfú era liturgical context.

Links

• Kanseki Repository KR5c0185
• Author: 張萬福.
• ctext.org: 三洞法服科戒文