十戒功過格 - A276

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十戒功過格

Shi jie gong guo ge
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別名 Other Titles: None
有關人物 Associated Persons: 呂祖

出版地區 Place(s) of Publication: 成都

版式 Format: 木刻版

出版者 Publisher(s): 二仙庵

出版年 Publication Date: 1906

載於 Located In: Daozang jiyao - A Volume 張

Cite as 引用為: "CRTA 十戒功過格 - A276"

Shijie gongguoge 十戒功過格; Ledgers of Merit and Demerit of the Ten Commandments is a morality book revealed by the legendary Daoist Patriarch Lü, via spirit writing, to his disciples.


別名 Other Titles

出版地區 Place(s) of Publication

成都

出版年 Publication Date(s)

1906

有關人物 Associated Person(s)

No Additional Information

內容 Contents

  • 一戒殺
  • 二戒盜
  • 三戒淫
  • 四戒惡口
  • 五戒兩舌
  • 六戒綺語
  • 七戒妄語
  • 八戒貪
  • 九戒瞋
  • 十戒癡

序跋等 Prefaces and Postfaces

  • 十戒功過格序

註疏 Commentary

The text provides disciples with a guideline for calculating the sum of "points" of merit and demerit accumulated in their daily life to achieve salvation and deliverance, which was determined by a detailed system of moral judgment of their behaviours and deeds in reference to the Ten Commandments.

Ledgers of Merit and Demerit

功過格 is a popular type of morality book popular in late imperial China. It takes the form of self-disciplinary journal for individuals (often Daoist and Buddhist practitioners) to evaluate their deeds and behaviours in daily life, to which certain numbers of merit or demerit points would be assigned based on different tenets or guiding principles. A shared belief underlying such practices was that accumulated merits would be rewarded (not necessarily in this world), whereas demerits would lead to punishments or karmic retributions.

It was recorded to help certain groups of Daoists and Buddhists achieve salvation since the twelfth century, but it was only during the sixteenth and seventeenth century that 功過格 gained unprecedented popularity around China.

Buddhist 十善業

There is significant overlap between Daoist Ten Commandments in the 十戒功過格 and the Mahayana Buddhist Ten Good Works(Daśa-kuśala-karmāni), a set of moral precepts to be observed by lay practitioners.

參考文獻 Bibliography

  • LAI Chi-tim 黎志添 (ed.), Daozang jiyao tiyao 道藏輯要提要, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2021, pp. 1509-1511.
  • Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne. The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

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有關書刊 See Also and Parallel Texts

十戒功過格 - E134 is a facsimile of the same edition

功德榜 Contributors

XiangyiLin Vincent