On The History Of Ancient Taoism Shangqing Scriptures

This paper tries to explore the source and evolvement of the ancientShangqing Scriptures from the East Jin Dynasty to the Song in the SixDynasty,and includes the following three parts:The first part deals with the Thirty-one Volumes of ExtraordinaryShangqing Scriptures (独立宝经三十一卷).The second chapter distincts two different Thirty-one Volumes ofShangqing Scriptures (上清经三十一卷) in the history.ExtraordinaryShangqing Scriptures,as the second one,has not gain enough academicattention it deserves.Taizhen Yudi Siji Mingke Jing (《太真玉帝四极明科经》),which can be regarded as the core of this scriptures,is carefullystudied to figure out the time and environment when it appeared,and theperson who most possibly made it.Moreover,with a reconsideration on theprocess during which Wang Lingqi (王灵期) created the scriptures,aconclusion can be drawn is that it is Wang who made the whole scripturessystem,and the time period can be predicted as 30 years from 405 A.D.to 435 A.D..The third chapter support this point by investigation on theclassics of Taizhen Yudi Siji Mingke Jing.The second part of this paper discusses Lu Xiujing's (陆修静)workand the lineage of the Shangqing Scriptures.The fourth chapter does a textual research on the Shangqing YuantongJingmu Zhuxu(《上清源统经目注序》),which is recorded in Yunji Qiqian(《云笈七籖》),and determines that Lu Xiujing is the author and ShangqingYuantong Jingmu (《上清源统经目》) belongs to the system of theExtraordinary Shangqing Scriptures.Therefore,Lu can be considered asa key role in the lineage of Shangqing Scriptures.On the other hand,theonly two-scripture discrepancy between the Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing mu(《上清大洞真经目》) and the Shangqing Yuantong Jingmu (《上清源统经目》)leads to a conclusion that the precursor of Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing muis exactly the same as the system of the Thirty one Volume Sciptures.Furthermore,the paper studies the relationship between Lu Xiujing andShangqing Sciptures,as well as Lu's Lingbao Scriptures' List (灵宝经目》),and concludes that the so called"unreleased"scriptures are actually not what the scholars always believe-say,haven't beencomposed-but untrustworthy artificial pseudograph.The third part is a survey on the Yang and Xus' Scriptures.The fifthchapter focuses on the scriptures written by Yang Xi(杨义),Xu Mi(许谧)andXu Hui(许翽)in the mid-Jin Dynasty,makes a list of scriptures thatactually existed at that time,and verifies the relevant scriptures inthe Taoist Canon to seek out the real texts at the hands of Yang and Xuaccording to this list.