青莲教道脉源流新论——兼谈九祖“黄德辉”

New Perspectives on the Origins and Successions of the Line of the Way of the Green Lotus Teaching,including a Discussion on the Ninth Patriarch,Huang Dehui

本文根据青莲教早期文献,推证该教流传的祖脉源流系谱及祖师是仙佛化身的说法,至迟在袁志谦时代已形成。结合祖脉系谱中三祖"普庵"的记载的特殊描述,进而追索该"祖脉源流"的由来,可能与江西人吴子祥或黄德辉有关。该"祖脉源流"除记载教中祖师外,亦传达"道落火宅"、"释终儒起"等观念。至于教中九祖"黄德辉",对照档案记载,就是黄廷臣。

This article, based on the early documents of the Green Lotus Teaching, asserts that by the time of Yuan Zhiqian, at the latest, the sect＇s extant genealogy and the theory that its patriarchs were incarnations of gods and Buddhas had already taken form. Synthesizing the descriptions in the sect＇s patriarchal genealogy about the third patriarch, Pu An, I further argue that the source of the theory of the ＂origin and succession of the patriarchal line＂ was likely Wu Zixiang of Jiangxi province or Huang Dehui. The ＂origin and succession of the patriarchal line＂, in addition to being a record of the sect＇s patriarchs, also conveyed the concept of ＂the Dao descending to ordinary households＂ as well as the ＂end of Buddhism and the beginning of Confucianism. ＂ The sect＇s own texts, together with government archives, suggest that the ninth patriarch, Huang Dehui, was the same person as Huang Tingchen.