太上元始天尊說三官寶號 - E47
太上元始天尊說三官寶號 Tai shang yuan shi tian zun shuo san guan bao hao |
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出版地區 Place(s) of Publication: None Known 版式 Format: 木刻版 出版者 Publisher(s): 出版年 Publication Date: 載於 Located In: Zangwai daoshu - E Volume 47, pp. 767-777. |
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Tai shang yuan shi tian zun shuo san guan bao hao (The Precious Titles of the Three Officials, Revealed by the Most High, the Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Commencement) is a undated concertina edition (jingzhezhuang ben 經折裝本) designed for the worship of the Three Officials (Sanguan 三官), also known as the Three Principles (Sanyuan 三元).
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The first section of this edition shows a devotional illustration. The right portion of the composition portrays the Three Officials surrounded by the celestial cohorts, while the left portion depicts the earth prisons (diyu 地獄). The plain text can be divided into an opening section and two separate scriptures devoted to the Three Officials. The opening section includes: (1) the preparatory works for scriptural recitation (qijing 啟經), which in this case involve the spell for the purification of the mouth (jingkou zhou 淨口咒), the spell for the purification of the body (jingshen zhou 浄身咒), and the divine spell of the golden light (jinguang shenzhou 金光神咒); (2) a short hymn (song 頌) in homage to the Three Officials; (3) the precious declarations (baogao 寶誥) of these three deities; and (4) the Preface to the Scripture of the Three Officials, Revealed by the Most High (Taishang shuo sanguan jing xu 太上說三官經序). According to this paratext, Chen Zichun 陳子椿, otherwise known as Chen Lang 陳朗, took the three daughters of the Dragon King (Longwang 龍王) as wives. The women bore three handsome and intelligent boys endowed with great divine powers. Later, the Celestial Worthy invested the semi-divine beings as the Three Officials. The two scriptures recorded in this edition are: the (1) Most High Wondrous Life-Protecting Scripture of the Three Principles Granting Happiness, Forgiving Sins, and Averting Disasters (Taishang sanyuan cifu shezui jie’e xiaozai yansheng baoming miaojing 太上三元賜福赦罪解厄消災延生保命妙經) and the (2) Precious Titles of the Three Officials, Revealed by the Most High, the Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Commencement (Taishang yuanshi tianzun shuo sanguan baohao 太上元始天尊說三官寶號). The first text describes the oral revelations made by the Three Officials and offers miracle tales that support the efficacy of scriptural recitation. The second scripture, of considerably shorter length, records the Three Officials’ precious titles and their proclamations (gao 誥). Although Schipper must be right in asserting that the first scripture is a pre-Ming text (2014: 1227), its present version cannot be earlier than the Ming, for one of its miracle tales mentions the year 1384 (Hongwu 17). Although it is impossible to establish with certainty which edition appeared first, it is clear that the textual structure of our undated item became prevalent as early as 1450, when the earliest known edition of the text was printed (Franke 1977: 205–215). The same textual structure occurs in many editions printed in Ming dynasty Beijing. Our item most probably dates back to the Ming, when many editions of the text were printed in Beijing (Jiang 2007: 75–118; Wang 2020: 203–22).
參考文獻 Bibliography
- Franke, Herbert. 1977. “Bemerkungen zum volkstümlichen Taoismus der Ming-Zeit”, in Oriens Extremus 24, No. 1/2, 205–215.
- Jiang Shou Cheng姜守誠. 2007. “Sanyuan jing banben de wenxianxue yanjiu ＜《三元經》版本的文獻學研究＞”, in Chengda lishi xuebao, no. 33, 75–118.
- Wang Jianchuan 王見川. 2020. “Ming-Qing Sanyuan/Sanguan dadi xinyang chutan 明清三元/三官大帝信仰初探”, in Fan Chunwu 范純武 (ed.), Lishi, yishu yu Taiwan renwen luncong, 18. 歷史、藝術與台灣人文論叢, 十八, Xinbei: Boyang wenhua, 203–22.
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