The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Close-up of the Supreme Golden Writ with Four Sacred Petitions symbol on the cover of the ritual book.

The Supreme Golden Writ and Jade Register Ritua...

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The Supreme Golden Writ and Jade Register Ritual, likely composed by Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang Zhengyi Daoists, contains four petition rites: for repentance, merit-reporting, infant protection, and demon subjugation. 

The Supreme Golden Writ and Jade Register Ritua...

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The Supreme Golden Writ and Jade Register Ritual, likely composed by Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang Zhengyi Daoists, contains four petition rites: for repentance, merit-reporting, infant protection, and demon subjugation. 

Zhengyi Home Blessing Rite to Ward Off Misfortune

The The Zhengyi Jiao Zhai Yi 正一醮宅仪

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The Zhengyi Jiao Zhai Yi, likely from the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang era, prescribes a domestic ritual for purifying and blessing troubled households. Through offerings of incense, tea, wine, and food on...

The The Zhengyi Jiao Zhai Yi 正一醮宅仪

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The Zhengyi Jiao Zhai Yi, likely from the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang era, prescribes a domestic ritual for purifying and blessing troubled households. Through offerings of incense, tea, wine, and food on...

Summon Inner Celestial Bureaucrats

The Zhengyi Chu Guan Zhang Yi 正一出官章仪

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The Zhengyi Chu Guan Zhang Yi, likely composed during the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang period, details a Zhengyi Daoist liturgy for “dispatching inner celestial officials”—ritually summoning the practitioner’s internal Five-Body True Officers...

The Zhengyi Chu Guan Zhang Yi 正一出官章仪

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The Zhengyi Chu Guan Zhang Yi, likely composed during the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang period, details a Zhengyi Daoist liturgy for “dispatching inner celestial officials”—ritually summoning the practitioner’s internal Five-Body True Officers...

The The Zhengyi Jie’e Jiaoyi 正一解厄醮仪

The The Zhengyi Jie’e Jiaoyi 正一解厄醮仪

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The Zhengyi Jie’e Jiaoyi (Ritual for Alleviating Calamities), likely from the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang period, details Zhengyi Daoist liturgies to neutralize personal misfortunes—such as birth-year afflictions, death-cycle taboos, illness, or financial...

The The Zhengyi Jie’e Jiaoyi 正一解厄醮仪

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The Zhengyi Jie’e Jiaoyi (Ritual for Alleviating Calamities), likely from the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang period, details Zhengyi Daoist liturgies to neutralize personal misfortunes—such as birth-year afflictions, death-cycle taboos, illness, or financial...

The The Zhengyi Chi Tan Yi 正一敕坛仪

The The Zhengyi Chi Tan Yi 正一敕坛仪

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The Zhengyi Chi Tan Yi, likely from the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang era, outlines the ritual for consecrating a Daoist altar in early Tianshi practice. Through petitions, visualization, spirit invocation, and incantations,...

The The Zhengyi Chi Tan Yi 正一敕坛仪

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The Zhengyi Chi Tan Yi, likely from the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang era, outlines the ritual for consecrating a Daoist altar in early Tianshi practice. Through petitions, visualization, spirit invocation, and incantations,...

The Zhengyi Zhijiao Zhai Yi 正一指教斋仪

The Zhengyi Zhijiao Zhai Yi 正一指教斋仪

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The Zhengyi Zhijiao Zhai Yi, likely compiled during the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang period, preserves an early Tianshi Daoist fasting rite rooted in the “Han Zhong Old Canon.” It details two closely...

The Zhengyi Zhijiao Zhai Yi 正一指教斋仪

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The Zhengyi Zhijiao Zhai Yi, likely compiled during the Southern Dynasties–Sui–Tang period, preserves an early Tianshi Daoist fasting rite rooted in the “Han Zhong Old Canon.” It details two closely...