Tài qīng dào dé xiǎn huà yí 太清道德顯化儀
Liturgy for Manifest Transformation of the Great Clarity Way and Virtue
Anonymous; Míng dynasty
A Míng-era liturgical text for manifesting the Way and Virtue (xiǎn huà 顯化 = “manifest transformation”). Preserved as DZ 793 / CT 793 (Dòngshén bù, Jiè lǜ lèi 洞神部戒律類).
About the work
The text provides a ritual-liturgical procedure for the formal cultivation of the Daoist Way-and-Virtue through collective recitation and visualization. It belongs to the late Daoist ritual-liturgical literature that proliferated in the Míng period under imperial and popular patronage.
Dating. Míng (1368–1644). Frontmatter gives 1368–1644 as the dynasty bracket. Dynasty: 明.