Qīng xuán jì liàn tiě guàn hú shí (= 廣成儀制鐵鏆斛食全集) 青玄濟煉鐵罐斛食
The Complete Iron-Pot Food-of-Hu Ritual Programme of the Pure-Mystery Salvation-Refinement Tradition
(formal title in the source: 廣成儀制鐵鏆斛食全集 Guǎng chéng yí zhì tiě guàn hú shí quán jí — “The Complete Set of Iron-Pot Food-of-Hu Ritual under the Guǎng chéng Liturgical Codification”)
校輯 (collated and edited) by 武陽雲峯羽客陳仲遠 (陳仲遠 of Wǔyáng Yúnfēng — same author as KR5i0094 Yǎ yí jí; identified here as a yǔkè Daoist priest)
A liturgical text of the Tàiyǐ jiùkǔ tiānzūn (Pure-Mystery / 青華) tradition — specifically the jì liàn 濟煉 (salvation-and-refinement) ritual of feeding-the-hungry-ghosts, paralleling the Buddhist yúqié yànkǒu 瑜伽焰口 (Yoga Flaming-Mouth) rite. The text is part of the broader Guǎng chéng yí zhì 廣成儀制 — the systematic liturgical codification of late-imperial Sìchuān Daoism attributed to Du Guāngtíng 杜光庭 (850–933, the late-Tang Daoist liturgist), but in fact substantially elaborated in the late-imperial era by Sìchuān Daoists. The text is one of the most important jì liàn (salvation-refinement) liturgies of Sìchuān Daoism and remains in active liturgical use.
Prefaces
The text opens directly with the Shàng xiāng cān guǐ wáng (offering-incense and revering-the-ghost-king) section: “The feast opens, the salvation-and-refinement, expounding the mystery-chapter; the treasure-tripod first-burns the wonderful-cavern incense; facing-imagining the Green-Palace, frequently saluting-and-petitioning; wishing along the cloud-path the immortal-procession descends. — Silently moving one sincerity; first chanting the Three Salutations.”
Abstract
A core liturgical text of late-imperial Sìchuān Daoism, in the Guǎngchéng yí zhì codification, edited by Chén Zhòngyuǎn of Wǔyáng / Yúnfēng — i.e., the same Sìchuān huángguān whose Yǎ yí jí is preserved at KR5i0094. The text is one of the principal documents of the Wǔyáng / Yúnfēng Sìchuān Daoist circle that produced the post-1809 DZJY supplement.
Translations and research
- For the Guǎng chéng yí zhì tradition see Olles, Ritual Words (2013); Esposito, Facets of Qing Daoism (2014).
- For yú-qié yàn-kǒu and its Daoist parallels see Strickmann, Mantras et mandarins (Gallimard 1996).
- For the Tài-yǐ jiù-kǔ tradition see 青華上帝.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5i0106
- Editor: 陳仲遠.