The Date, Authorship, and Literary Structure of the Great Peace Scripture Digest
Résumé
The text opening the "Great Peace Part" () in the Ming Taoist Canon, the "Great Peace Scripture Digest" () is widely confused with the famous "Great Peace Scripture" () which follows it in the Canon. The first full analysis and reassessment of the "Digest" version, this paper reviews the textual morphology of its ancient and modern editions, discusses current hypotheses concerning its date and authorship, and investigates its literary structure and form, pointing to clusters of prosodic patterns. Light is shed on strata of diachronic origin coexisting in the text, which should not be regarded as being the product of an inconstant solitary compiler, but rather as the conflation of shortened "Great Peace Scripture" renditions perhaps dating to the Tang and pre-Song or early Song eras. A full linear analysis of the text, including a concordance, completes the literary study.
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