『龍虎山志』からみたモンゴル命令文の世界--正一教教團研究序説

Abstract

In the year 1313, the Daoist Zhengyi, Orthodox Oneness, sect 正一教, which experienced an unprecedented and never to be repeated flowering under the protection of the Mongol Dynasty, established the Longhushan Dashangqing zhengyiwanshougong 龍虎山大上清正一万壽宮 as the head temple of the sect. In commemoration, the emperor Ren Zong 仁宗, Ayurbarwada-Qa'an, issued an imperial edict, Jarliq, ordering the compilation and publication of the Longhushanzhi 龍虎山志, describing the history of the sect. A manuscript that almost perfectly preserves the form of the original is held by the Imperial Palace Museum in Taiwan. The manuscript contains a vast number of various types of official orders of appointment issued by the Mongol court to sect leaders and influential members, as well as numerous records of priceless stelae that are now lost. All the orders of appointment record the date of their issue, and some of the imperial edicts demonstrate a unique written form that is a direct translation of Mongol language wording into vernacular Chinese. These documents have been used here in order to record an accurate chronology of the Zhengyi sect in the Mongol period. In organizing and examining the official orders of appointment, I have attempted to consider the historical background of the work's publication and fundamental issues of its relationship to other works and epigraphy that have been used as primary historical sources, and additionally to prepare for a further study of written orders of the Mongol period themselves.