Qingwei

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Qingwei ( Chinese  清 微 , Pinyin Qingwei . "Pure thinness") is a ritual system of Daoism that originated in Fujian in the 13th century .

Qingwei has significantly influenced other schools of Daoism, such as the Wudang Shan Daoists and important centers of Daoism in Jiangxi . In the Ming period , Daoshi ascribed a major role in the Daoist ritual, alongside Shenxiao, to the Qingwei teaching .

The important Leifa (“rituals of the clap of thunder”), which were also used by the Lingbao School and the Shenxiao School, were combined in the Qingwei system with forms of Tantric Buddhism .

In Daoist canon six major texts of this school have been preserved and in the corpus of Daoist rituals, the Daofa Huiyan containing chapters 1 to 55 Qingwei manuals. Little research has been done on this school and its writings.

literature

  • Fabrizio Pregadio (Ed.): The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism. 2 volumes. Routledge, London (et al.) 2008, ISBN 978-0-7007-1200-7 .