The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem 玉箓资度三朝仪

Paul Peng

The Jade Register Triple Audience Requiem

The compiler is originally unnamed.

It was roughly compiled from the late Northern Song Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty.

It is a single scroll and incorporated into the Ritual Norms Section of the Cavern Mystery Division of The Daozang.
The text is divided into three chapters: The Morning Audience Ritual for the Jade Register Salvation Fasting, The Midday Audience Ritual for the Jade Register Salvation Fasting and The Evening Audience Ritual for the Jade Register Salvation Fasting. It elaborates on the morning, midday and evening ritual cultivation ceremonies of the Jade Register Fasting. The proceedings of these three rituals are largely similar with minor differences, mainly including paying homage to the master with mindful invocation, reciting incantations to summon divine officials, requesting and proclaiming the ritual positions, intoning memorial addresses, chanting invocations to the cardinal directions, repenting sins for all quarters, three memorial invocations with three obeisances, making vows, invoking the gods and burning incense, intoning the hall-exiting hymns and other rites.

The memorial addresses primarily state that the fasting ceremony is held to pray for netherworld blessings on behalf of the deceased spirits, and express the aspiration to universally bestow blessings upon the nation and its people, embodying the merciful salvation connotation of The Dao.
Paul Peng — Zhengyi Taoist Priest, Longhu Mountain

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Paul Peng

Paul Peng is a Zhengyi Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi — the ancestral home of the Celestial Masters' tradition. Ordained at 25 after a dream from the Celestial Master, he has practiced for 25 years under Master Zeng Guangliang. He is one of the curators of this store, which is officially authorized by Tianshi Fu. All items are consecrated at the temple by the resident priest team.

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