Religion:Xiapu Manichaean manuscripts

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The Xiapu Manichaean manuscripts are Chinese Manichaean manuscripts from Shangwan Village 上万村, Baiyang Township, Xiapu County, Fujian Province, China. They first became known to academia and the general public in October 2008. Today in Baiyang Township, the texts are used for rituals conducted for Lin Deng 林瞪 in the three villages of Baiyang 柏洋村, Shangwan 上万村, and Tahou 塔后村.[1]

Additional Manichaean manuscripts were discovered in neighboring parts of Fujian after 2008. In March 2016, 3 Manichaean texts were discovered in Jianglong Village 降龙村, Shoushan Township 寿山乡, Pingnan County, Fujian, called Zhenming kaizheng wenke 貞明開正文科,[2] Zhenming kaizheng zou 貞明開正奏, and Dier shike 第二時科. In 2017, 35 Manichaean texts owned by Taoist priest Shi Menghua 施孟铧[3] were discovered in Gaoshan Town 高山镇, Fuqing City 福清市.[4] In 2019, a Manichaean stone inscription was also discovered in nearby Qiyu Village 芹屿村, Yangzhong Town 洋中镇, Jiaocheng District, Ningde City.[5]

Background

The majority of the texts belong to Chen Peisheng 陈培生, a priest or ritual master (fashi 法师) who uses them as ritual texts during his religious ceremonies. Priest Chen Peisheng is the descendant of Chen Pingshan 陈平山, who was a disciple of Lin Deng 林瞪. In Baiyang Township, many local villagers revere Lin Deng 林瞪 (born 1003; died 1059), a Fujianese Manichaean who helped established Manichaeism in Fujian during the Song Dynasty. In 1027, Lin converted to Manichaeism at the age of 25. Today, Lin's tomb is still revered by locals in Shangwan Village.[6]

Lin Deng himself was the disciple of Sun Mian 孙绵, one of the ancestors of the Sun 孙 clan in Chanyang Village 禅洋村 (now Shenyang Village 神洋村)[7] who founded Longshou Temple 龙首寺 in 966, located about 2 kilometers from Shangwan Village. During the Yuan Dynasty, the temple was renamed as Leshantang 乐山堂 (also called Gaizhutang 盖竹堂). It was destroyed by a typhoon in 2006. In Xiapu County, there are ruins of two Manichaean pagodas, one called the Triple Buddha Pagoda (Sanfota 三佛塔; built in the early 1520s, located in Shangwan); the other called the Flying Road Pagoda (Feiluta 飞路塔; built in 1374, located in Baiyang Township). The Flying Road Pagoda is notable for the inscription qingjing guangming dali zhihui 清淨 光明 大力 智慧 ‘Purity, Light, Great Power, Wisdom’.[6]

Moni Guangfo (摩尼光佛, meaning ‘Mani, Buddha of Light’) is one of the longest Xiapu manuscripts. The manuscript includes 83 pages, 659 lines, and over 8,400 Chinese characters in total.[8]

In comparison with older forms of Manichaeism and other previously known forms of Chinese Manichaeism, the Xiapu Manichaean texts strongly emphasize the worship of Jesus (Yishu 夷數).[9]

List of texts

A tentative list of texts, the majority of which belong to ritual masters (fashi 法师) Chen Peisheng 陈培生 and Xie Daolian 谢道琏 in Baiyang Township, given by Gábor Kósa (2014:13-14) is as follows. Most were transcribed during the Qing Dynasty from older sources. The contents of the text date back to over 1,000 years ago.[6]

Title Pages Era Custodian Notes
Gaoguang wen 《高廣文》 4 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Mingfu qing fo wen 《冥福請佛文》 14 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Leshantang shenji 《樂山堂神記》 10 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Mingmen chu chuanqing benshi 《明門初傳請本師》 17 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Jie xizhang wen 《借錫杖文》 4 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Jie zhu wen 《借珠文》 3 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Fu xizhang ji 《付錫杖偈》 1 page Qing Chen Peisheng
Poyu haoliao song xizhang ji 《破獄好了送錫杖偈》 1 page Chen Peisheng
Siji zan 《四寂贊》 2 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Song sanjie shenwen 《送三界神文》 4 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Moni guangfo 《摩尼光佛》 82 pages Chen Peisheng
Song fo zan 《送佛贊》 3 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Song fo wen 《送佛文》 8 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Zou shen die shu kece 《奏申牒疏科冊》 70 pages Qing Xie Daolian two copies
Diandeng qiceng kece 《點燈七層科冊》 = Gongde zouming zoudie 《功德奏名奏牒》 Xie Daolian
Xiongke kan Zhenmingjing biyong ci wen 《凶科看貞明經畢用此文》 4 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Xingfuzu qingdan ke 《興福祖慶誕科》 (Ritual Manual for the Celebration of the Birthday of the Ancestor of Promoting Well-being[10]) 34/30 pages Qing/recent Chen Peisheng two copies
Moni shishi mifa 《摩尼施食秘法》 Chen Peisheng
Menying keyuan 《門迎科苑》 copy from 1715
Jixiang daochang shen han die 《吉祥道場申函牒》 90 pages Qing Chen Peisheng
Jixiang daochang menshu 《吉祥道場門書》 copy from 1786
Yushu 《雨疏》 or Dao yu shu zou shen die 《禱雨疏奏申牒》
Jiaoping qing zhi biao 《繳慿請職表》
Qusha fu 《去煞符》 1 page
Wuming kewen 《無名科文》 163 pages Xie Daolian various untitled texts

Chapters in Xingfuzu qingdan ke 《興福祖慶誕科》 are:[6]

  1. Qi dasheng 《起大聖》
  2. Kaitan wen 《開壇文》
  3. Jingkou wen 《净口文》
  4. Jingtan wen 《净壇文》
  5. Tiannü zhou 《天女咒》
  6. Qing hufa wen 《請護法文》
  7. Qing sanbao 《請三寶》
  8. Wufang jiantan lushi zhouyu 《五方建壇路師咒語》
  9. Zhaofu guanwen 《召符官文》
  10. Song tudi zan anwei 《誦土地讚安慰》

Further reading

  • Ma, Xiaohe 马小鹤. 2014. Xiapu wenshu yanjiu 霞浦文书研究. Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Publishing House 兰州大学出版社.
  • Yang, Fuxue 杨富学. 2020. Xiapu Monijiao yanjiu 霞浦摩尼教研究. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中华书局.
  • Yang, Fuxue 杨富学. 2020. Xiapu Monijiao wenxian Moni Guangfo yanjiu 霞浦摩尼教文献《摩尼光佛》研究. Lanzhou: Gansu Cultural Publishing House 甘肃文化出版社.

References

  1. ↑ Kósa, Gábor (2018). Der östliche Manichäismus im Spiegel seiner Buch- und Schriftkultur. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-059393-8. 
  2. ↑ "杨富学 宋建霞 盖佳择 包朗 : 屏南摩尼教文书《贞明开正文科》录校并研究". 2021-03-24. https://freewechat.com/a/MzU2MTI2MzgyOA==/2247485143/1. 
  3. ↑ "福清发现摩尼教经典科仪文本文物" (in zh). 2017-06-19. http://m.fznews.com.cn/node/10763/20170619/59473908c4c6a.shtml. 
  4. ↑ Yang, Fuxue 杨富学. 2020. Xiapu Monijiao yanjiu 霞浦摩尼教研究. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中华书局, p.26.
  5. ↑ "蕉城芹屿元代摩尼教摩崖石刻解析" (in zh). 2021-04-30. http://www.ndnews.cn/2021/0430/56040.html. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Kósa, Gábor (2014). Mikkelsen, Gunner. ed. "The Fifth Buddha: An overview of the Chinese Manichaean material from Xiapu (Fujian)". Manichaean Studies Newsletter (The International Association of Manichaean Studies) 28. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325808021. 
  7. ↑ Ma, Xiaohe (2015). "Remains of the Religion of Light in Xiapu (霞浦) County, Fujian Province". Mani in Dublin: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8–12 September 2009. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. 88. Brill. pp. 228–258. doi:10.1163/9789004289123_014. ISBN 9789004289123. https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004289123/B9789004289123_014.xml. Retrieved 2023-06-01. 
  8. ↑ Yang, Fuxue 杨富学. 2020. Xiapu Monijiao wenxian Moni Guangfo yanjiu 霞浦摩尼教文献《摩尼光佛》研究. Lanzhou: Gansu Cultural Publishing House 甘肃文化出版社.
  9. ↑ Yang, Fuxue; Xue, Wengjing (2018). "Yishu (Jesu) Worship in Xiapu Manichaean Manuscripts". Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2018. Brill. pp. 97–112. doi:10.1163/9789004384972_008. ISBN 9789004383746. 
  10. ↑ Ma, Xiaohe (2015-01-14). "On the Date of the Ritual Manual for the Celebration of the Birthday of the Ancestor of Promoting Well-being from Xiapu". Open Theology (Walter de Gruyter GmbH) 1 (1). doi:10.1515/opth-2015-0028. ISSN 2300-6579. 

External links

  • Full text of Moni guangfo (摩尼光佛) from Chinese Wikisource



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