Wǔ jīng hé biān 五經合編
Five Scriptures in Combined Edition
planchette-revealed by Lǚzǔ (呂洞賓); preface by 韓湘 (Hán Xiāngzǐ, the planchette persona Sānshān díshǐ 三山笛史); title-poem by 柳守元 (Liǔ Shǒuyuán)
A combined edition of five short Lǚ-zǔ-cult scriptures assembled and named by the planchette pantheon: (i) the Dù rén jīng 度人經 (“Crossing-the-Threshold”), (ii) the Xīn jīng 心經 (“Heart-Scripture”), (iii) the Jīnyù huándān jīng 金玉還丹經 (“Gold-and-Jade Returning-Elixir”), (iv) the Xǐng xīn jīng 醒心經 (“Heart-Awakening”), (v) one further short text. The five together form a single curriculum mapped explicitly onto the structure of xīnxué (heart-study): “Dù rén delivers this heart; Xīn jīng verifies the saint by this heart; Jīnyù refines this heart; Xǐngxīn completes this heart; the five-united-as-one — symbolic of the central numerals — together total this heart” (Liǔ’s title-poem).
Prefaces
Preface (Hán Xiāngzǐ as Sānshān díshǐ). Compares Lǚzǔ’s universal-deliverance vow to that of Dàshì Guānyīn: “Dàshì’s descending of the dharma-altar, sprinkling the sweet-dew to nourish the spirit-heart — boundless compassion delivering all without limit. Our Chúnyáng xiān shī’s compassion-saving heart is on a par with Dàshì’s. His flying-luán proclamation, preaching the dharma everywhere — its volume is hard to fathom, like the sand of the Ganges. The Quán shū assembled here, though it cannot exhaust a ten-thousandth of his depth-and-loft, may yet glimpse a piece. — In this collection, this altar-revised Wǔ jīng hé biān is the most adequate to publication. — Sānshān díshǐ Hán Xiāng wrote.”
Title-poem (Liǔ Shǒuyuán). Anchors the five-scripture hé biān on a heart-of-mind nucleus drawn from the Confucian qiú qí fàng xīn (recovering the lost heart) and the Buddhist zhì zhī yī chù (placing the mind in one location). “The five-united-as-one — also matching the central-soil number — total this heart.” Signed Hóng jiào dì zǐ Liǔ Shǒuyuán xūnmù tí cí.
Abstract
A short Lǚ-zǔ-cult curriculum compendium edited by Liǔ Shǒuyuán within the same DZJY-source milieu c. 1700–1750. The framing fiction (Hán Xiāngzǐ delivering a comparison to Guānyīn’s salvific vow) places the work under the planchette pantheon’s standard cross-tradition register. The text is an editorial product, not a primary scripture; its “five scriptures” are themselves Lǚ-zǔ-cult compositions of the same era.
Translations and research
- No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5i0048
- Editor: 柳守元; preface: 韓湘 (託名).