Tài shàng wú jí dà dào yán shòu jí fú xiāo jié bǎo chàn 太上無極大道延壽集福消劫寶懺
Treasure-Repentance of the Most-High Limitless Great-Way for Extending Life, Gathering Fortune, and Dispelling Calamity
anonymous Daoist liturgical bǎo chàn (treasure-repentance)
A liturgical repentance text addressed to the Three-Pure境 (Sān qīng jìng), structured in the standard Daoist kē yí sequence: opening zàn (encomium), kāi chàn zàn (beginning-of-repentance encomium), fú yǐ (formal-statement), qǐ shī (initiating sequence), xiàng shèng (turning-toward-the-saints) — with the petitioner’s bāi sān qīng yìng huà tiān zūn / Jīn quē Yù huáng tiān zūn etc. The text covers the standard themes of life-extension, fortune-gathering, and calamity-dispelling — the standard yángshēng trinity of Daoist devotion.
Prefaces
The text bears no separate preface; it opens directly with the kāi chàn zàn (opening encomium): “Reverently bow! / Three-Pure境’s Limitless Three-境 Honoured-One: today I raise the orthodox Way and accept this slight sincerity. — Encomium for opening the repentance: the essence of the Tàijí, the numen of the Two-and-Five, yīnyáng combining-and-merging, naturally the Real comes-into-being; emerging-from-the-Mystery and entering-the-Pìn (female), wonderfully combined-and-condensed; qiánkūn once-set, the Two Forms shining-clear; mountain-river-grass-tree-man-thing all together generated, all possessing the Way; the Way is hard to forcibly name; Heaven-Earth’s beginning-ancestor, the Three-境 Three-Pure…”
Abstract
A standard Daoist bǎo chàn (treasure-repentance) liturgy in the Three-Pure境 cult-register. The text is CK-EX in source-Witness — i.e., part of the Bǎoshàn / xù kè (continued-engraving) supplement to DZJY rather than the original 1809 corpus. Composition c. 1700–1906; specific dating not internally available. The work is liturgically continuous with the broader bǎo chàn tradition (cf. KR5i0076 Chàn fǎ dà guān).
Translations and research
- For Daoist bǎo chàn see Lagerwey, Taoist Ritual (1987).
- No critical edition or translation of this specific text located.