Tai-yi-jiao (English spelling)

Japanese: 太一教 - たいいつきょう（英語表記）Tai-yi-jiao

A Taoist sect founded by the Taoist priest Xiao Baozhen in Ji County, Henan Province, during the Tianjun period of the Jin Dynasty (1138-40). It is one of the new Taoist sects, along with the True Great Taoism and the Quanzhen Taoism. It was named Taiyi Sect because it used a technique called "Taiyi Sangen Fa Lu" to save the people. "Taiyi" means heavenly gods, "Sangen" means the three gods of the Upper Yuan Heavenly Official, the Middle Yuan Earthly Official, and the Lower Yuan Water Official, and "Fa Lu" means talismans. It focused on saving people from illness and disasters with talismans and prayers, and had a strong magical flavor, but on the other hand it respected the Middle Way and had precepts such as not drinking alcohol and not marrying, but it did not preach the health care methods (→Health Care Theory) such as Jin Dan Dao (→Jin Dan Dao), Shi Kai, or Doin and Fang Zhong (→Fang Zhong Jutsu), which were valued in previous Taoism. They built Taiyitang temples in various places, rapidly increasing the number of believers and gaining the protection of the Jin royal family. During the reign of the 4th patriarch, Xiao Fudao, the sect developed under the protection of the Yuan royal family, but after the 8th patriarch, the lineage died out and the sect seems to have disappeared.

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Japanese:

中国，金の天眷年間 (1138～40) に，河南の汲県で道士蕭抱珍 (しょうほうちん) が創始した道教教団。真大道教，全真教と並ぶ新道教の一つ。「太一三元法籙」という術をもって民衆を救済したので，太一教の名がある。「太一」とは天神，「三元」とは上元天官，中元地官，下元水官の三神，「法籙」とはお札のこと。お札や祈祷で病気や災厄を救うことを主とし，呪術的色彩が強いが，他方で中道を尊び，飲酒，妻帯の禁などの戒律を有したが，それ以前の道教が重んじていた金丹 (→金丹道 ) ，尸解，あるいは導引や房中 (→房中術 ) などの養生法 (→養生説 ) は説かなかった。各地に太一堂という会堂を建て，急速に信徒をふやし，金の王室の保護を得た。4祖蕭輔道のときに元の王室の保護を受けて発展したが，8祖以後は法系も絶えて，教団は消滅したようである。

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