Yuán huáng dà dào zhēn jūn jiù jié bǎo jīng 元皇大道真君救劫寶經
Calamity-Saving Treasure Scripture of the Original Imperial Great-Way Perfected Lord
base scripture: planchette-attributed to 元皇大道真君 (Yuán huáng dà dào zhēn jūn — i.e., the high cult-title of 文昌帝君); collated by 朱珪 (Zhū Guī of Dàxīng) and re-edited by 蔣予蒲 (Jiǎng Yǔpǔ of Suīyáng) — i.e., the editorial team of the original 1809 DZJY
A planchette-revealed calamity-deliverance scripture in the Wénchāng cult, framed as the deity’s response to the cosmic-calamity-cycle (劫運). The narrative situates the revelation at rénshēn year, 7 month 7 day = the Western Jìn Huáidì Yǒngjiā 6, in correspondence with the textually-impossible date 312 CE — a deliberate cosmological-mythical date rather than a historical one, signalling the work’s planchette-revelatory genre. The scripture lists categories of evildoers (the Ten Evils, Five Rebellions; ministers, officers, gentlemen-farmers-craftsmen-merchants, monks, Daoists, miscellaneous types; some calculated number for each category) and prescribes apotropaic measures: daily morning recitation of the Yù huáng dà tiān zūn xuán qióng gāo shàng dì, Xún shēng fù gǎn Tài yǐ jiù kǔ tiān zūn, Jiǔ tiān yìng yuán léi shēng pǔ huà tiān zūn, Yù xū shī xiàng xuán tiān shàng dì jīn què huà shēn tiān zūn — the four high-Daoist names; on the shuò and wàng days, recitation of the Jiù jié jīng and the Tài shàng gǎn yìng piān; consistent moral conduct in the six chapters of conduct-norms.
Prefaces
The text bears no external preface; the editorial credit is the only paratext: Dàxīng Zhū Guī Shíjūn jìng jiào — Suīyáng Jiǎng Yǔpǔ Mèngyīn chóng dìng — i.e., the preparation team of the original 1809 Dào zàng jí yào.
Abstract
A late-eighteenth-century Wén-chāng-cult planchette scripture in the calamity-deliverance register, edited for the 1809 Dào zàng jí yào by Zhū Guī and Jiǎng Yǔpǔ — the two principal Beijing-Suī-yáng editor-reviewers of the original DZJY (cf. 朱珪 / 蔣予蒲). The scripture’s terminus ad quem is 1809; terminus a quo is c. 1700 (general planchette-revelatory genre dating). The mythical 312 CE dating is internal scripture-mythology, not historical evidence.
The work belongs to the same jiù jié genre as KR5i0004 Yuán shǐ shàng dì Pí lú zhē yē shuō dà dòng jiù jié zūn jīng and is liturgically similar; its specific anchoring on the four-deity invocation list (Yùhuáng / Tàiyǐ / Léishēng pǔhuà / Xuántiān shàngdì) is the standard Sì shèng sì hào devotional sequence of late-imperial Daoism.
Translations and research
- For the DZJY editorial team and its collaborative cross-confessional Confucian-Daoist character: Mori Yuria, Daozang jiyao and Quanzhen Daoism; Esposito, Facets of Qing Daoism.
- No critical edition or translation of this specific scripture located.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5i0085
- Editor-reviewers: 朱珪, 蔣予蒲.