Dongxuan Lingbao Zhenling Weiye Tu (Chart of the Ranks and Functions of True Spirits of the Lingbao School from the Mysterious Grotto), compiled by Tao Hongjing, a Taoist priest of the Qi and Liang dynasties during the Southern Dynasties.
Consisting of one roll, it is included in the Dongzhen Section, Genealogy and Record Category of the Daozang (Taoist Canon).
Based primarily on Southern and Northern Dynasties Shangqing Taoist texts such as Zhengao (True Declarations), Yuanshi Shangzhen Zhongxian Ji (Records of the Primordial Highest True Ones and All Immortals), and Yuanshi Gaoshang Yujian Dazuan (The Great Compilation of the Jade Inspection Tablets of the Primordial Highest Supreme), this work compiles the names of nearly 700 deities and true immortals mentioned therein into a divine genealogy.
The deities are hierarchically arranged into seven ranks. Each rank has a primary deity seated in the central position, with the remaining deities divided into left, right, scattered immortal, and female immortal positions.
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