Taiping Jing
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| Taiping Jing | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese: | 太平經 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese: | 太平经 | ||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin: | Tàipíng Jīng | ||||||||
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Taiping Jing (The Classic of Great Peace) is the name of several different Daoist texts. At least two works were known by this title:
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- traditional Chinese: 天官歷包元太平經; simplified Chinese: 天官历包元太平经, Pinyin tiān guān lì bāo yuán tàipíng jīng, 12 Chapters, contents unknown, author: Gan Zhongke 甘忠可
- traditional Chinese: 太平清領書; simplified Chinese: 太平清领书, Pinyin tàipíng qīng lǐng shū, 170 Chapters, only 57 of which survive via the Daozang, author: unknown
Taiping Jing usually refers to the work which has been preserved in the Daozang. It is considered to be a valuable resource for researching early Daoist beliefs and the society at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Jue (d. 184), the leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, based his form of Daoism (太平道) on this work.
The contents of Taiping Jing are diverse, but primarily deals with subjects such as heaven and earth, five elements, Yin and yang and the sexagenary cycle.
