主編:詹石窗
出版:香港蓬瀛仙館
ISSN 1728-7642

Daoism Studies ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 1-24.

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Thunder Spell(Lei Fa) in the Song Dynasty

Koichi Matsumoto, Liu Xiongfeng   

  • Online:2020-12-10 Published:2021-08-19
  • About author:Koichi Matsumoto is a professor in the Department of Information media in the Library of Tsukuba University in Japan. He is mainly engaged in the research of Daoism and folk religion in Song Dynasty and folk religion in Taiwan.Liu Xiongfeng is professor and director of the Center for Religious Translation and Studies at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include religion and philosophy.

Abstract: As an important era in Chinese history, Song Dynasty was endowed with the characteristics of social, economic and cultural transformation. Daoism in this period was also recorded in history as the development of ancient traditions and the birth of new traditions. Daoism, as a local religion, has shown unusual momentum both in theory and in practice. From the compilation of Daozang under the dynastic policy, to the advent of many ritual books, to the establishment of Quanzhen Daoism(全真道) in the North and the establishment of the authority of Zhengyi Daoism(正一道) in the South, and the emergence of Southern Lineage(南宗), all demonstrate the new tradition of Daoism. The appearance of Thunder Rites (Lei Fa) in Daoism became an epoch-making event in this series of phenomena, which had a significant and far-reaching influence on the development of Daoism thereafter.

Key words: The Song Dynasty, Thunder Rites (Lei Fa), Emperor Huizong of Song (宋徽宗), Lin Lingsu(林靈素)