Lingbao Tianzun
Chinese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
He is a scripture that became a person. The Lingbao corpus is one of the two great bodies of Daoist revealed text, and the deity who holds the second Purity is that body of writing given a face and a heaven — which is an unusual thing for a god to be, and worth recording as what it is rather than flattening into 'creator deity, second rank'.
Domains
- cosmic order
- revelation
Relations
- emanation of: Yuanshi TianzunThe second stage of an unfolding, not a son. The Sanqing are one Dao at three degrees of articulation and the relation is written that way.Reference treatment of the Three Pure Ones as the unfolding of the Tao from undifferentiated unity into the manifest world, each marking a stage. (secondary)
Sources
- Lingbao Tianzun is the second of the Three Pure Ones, ruler of the heaven of Highest Clarity, who governs the second stage of creation and separated yang from yin.: Reference treatment of the Sanqing and of Lingbao Tianzun's office. (secondary)