Tongchu

Tongchu ( Chinese  童 初 , Pinyin Tóngchū  - "young beginning") describes a ritual tradition of Daoism . Tongchu took up the teachings of Shangqing again in the 12th century and combined them with the teachings of Heavenly Master Daoism and the Tianxin Zhengfa School. The origins of this school go back to the time of Song Emperor Huizong in the Mao Shan area . During the Song period , Tongchu influenced many Daoist traditions.

The school was founded by Yang Xizhen (1101–1124), who, according to legend, spent a year in the heavenly realms of the Huayang grotto and then began to teach a new system of rituals received there.

The ritual texts of the Tongchu school connect the four saints of Tianxin Zhengfa with Zhang Daoling . Striking references to the Huoling talisman and the Tianpeng magic come from the Shangqing tradition. Huoling means a "bell of fire" and Tianpeng is a Daoist deity.

The scriptures of the Tongchu school were handed down in the Daofa Huiyan (corpus of Daoist rituals).

literature

• Fabrizio Pregadio (Ed.): The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism. Routledge, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-7007-1200-7 , OCLC 45484311 . Pp. 996-997.