Xisheng jing

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The Xisheng jing ( Chinese  西 昇 經  /  西 升 经 , Pinyin Xīshēng jīng , W.-G. Hsi-sheng Ching , English Scripture of Western Ascension  - "Scripture from the Western Ascension") is a Daoist text from the late 5th century AD . Century. The Xisheng jing reports on the Daoist teachings that Laozi passed on to the Yin Xi before he went west to India.

The date of origin of the Xisheng jing is uncertain; it is estimated to be in the "late 5th century" (Kohn 2007: 1114) or "6th century" (Komjathy 2004: 52).

The Daoist Canon ( Daozang ) contains two editions from the Song Dynasty (DZ 726 and 666): the Xisheng jing jizhu西 昇 經 集注 "Collected Commentaries on the Scriptures from the Western Ascension" by Chen Jingyuan († 1094 ) and the Xisheng jing from Emperor Huizong徽宗 (r. 1100–1125).

The work was translated into English by Livia Kohn .

literature

  • Livia Kohn: Taoist Mystical Philosophy. The Scripture of Western Ascension . State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1991, ISBN 0-7914-0542-7 ( SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture ), (contains an English translation).
  • Livia Kohn: Xisheng jing西 昇 經Scripture of Western Ascension . In: Fabrizio Pregadio (Ed.): The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism. Volume 2. Routledge, London et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7007-1200-7 , pp. 1114-1115.
  • Louis Komjathy: Daoist Texts in Translation (PDF; 573 kB) . 2004.
  • Maeda Shigeki 前 田 繁 樹. 1991. 『老子 西 昇 經』 語彙 索引 稿 [Concordance with Laozi Xishengjing ], 山村 女子 短期 大学 紀要 [ The Bulletin of Yamamura Women's Junior College ]. 3, 1991, pp. 194-244.

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