Great Rites of Shangqing Lingbao (Jin Yunzhong)上清灵宝大法（金允中）
- Also known as
- Jin Yunzhong's Great Rites of Shangqing Lingbao, Great Rites of Lingbao
- Author / transmission
- Jin Yunzhong
- Period
- Southern Song · Written by Jin Yunzhong (active in the early 13th century); the preface dates from around 1223, the sixteenth year of the Jiading era.
- Canon division
- Zhengyi Section
- Collected in
- Zhengtong Daozang, Zhengyi Section
- Category
- Ritual Protocol (Keyi)
- Fascicles
- 45 scrolls (originally 66 scrolls)
Synopsis
Jin Yunzhong's recension of the Great Rites of Shangqing Lingbao is the culminating work of Southern Song Lingbao ritual, in forty-five scrolls (originally sixty-six). Jin Yunzhong was a Southern Song Daoist priest trained in the old Lingbao methods; this work systematically organizes the Yellow Register Retreat, refinement and salvation rites, memorials and petitions, talismans and registers, ritual seals, visualization, altar liturgy, and ordination certificates of the Lingbao Great Rites, asserting that 'in Lingbao, retreat ritual is fundamental,' and setting out in detail the procedures for establishing the altar, submitting the memorial, the preliminary vigil, performing the rite, audience with the Perfected, feeding and refining the hungry ghosts, and the offering rite of thanksgiving. The author strongly criticizes the 'new methods' of the Tianxin, Shenxiao, and Qingwei traditions then in fashion, advocating adherence to the ancient methods of Lingbao and opposing the mixing of Thunder Rites and talismanic methods into retreat liturgy; together with Wang Qizhen's recension and the Golden Book of Salvation according to the Lingbao Tradition, it forms one of the three major texts of Song–Yuan Lingbao ritual. The refinement and salvation rites and rites for the shades described in this work had a lasting influence on the later Yellow Register Retreat and feeding rites of the Zhengyi and Quanzhen traditions.
Key Ideas
- Retreat ritual as the essence of Lingbao, adhering to the ancient methods
- Complete liturgical procedures for the Yellow Register Retreat, refinement and salvation, and memorials
- Criticism of the admixture of the 'new methods' of Tianxin and Shenxiao
- The institutionalization of ordination certificates, ritual seals, and altar liturgy
Structure
Forty-five scrolls, organized into general discussion, altar liturgy, memorials and petitions, talismans and registers, refinement and salvation, and retreat procedures.
Editions
- Zhengtong Daozang edition
- Zhonghua Daozang, vol. 34
Full Text & Online Resources
Related scriptures
Great Rites of Shangqing Lingbao (Wang Qizhen), Golden Book of Salvation according to the Lingbao Tradition, Jade Mirror of Lingbao, Established Regulations of the Daoist CommunityRelated figures
Jin Yunzhong, Ning Quanzhen- 任继愈主编《道藏提要》
- Judith Boltz, A Survey of Taoist Literature, 1987
- 松本浩一《宋代の道教と民間信仰》