- Souyuan
Souyuan (收圓 or 收原) in the Taoist eschatology is equivalent to the
Judgment Day . "Sou" means collect, "Yuan" (圓) a cycle, to round off or complete, taken together Souyuan can be translated as to reclaim, to complete the circle or cycle, or to absolve and judge. Souyuan as in 收原 literally means to reclaim the "Yuanlings" or primordial souls. The process is also called "Pudu " (普度) or "Mojie" (未劫).Souyuan is to induct the yuanling (原靈 also "yuanren" 原人) from the realms of the living and
hell back to heaven.tages of Souyuan
Two previous Souyuan had been decreed by
heaven , the first one around the time ofFuxi andYellow Emperor called the "First Souyuan" or "Qingyangqi" (青陽期) corresponding to the Spring of absolution, it was sometimes called "Longhan" (龍漢). Nine instruments of armageddon (劫) or disasters accompanied that event in which some 200 million yuanling were reclaimed.The "Second Souyuan" was called the "Hongyangchi" (紅陽期), also "Chiming" (赤明) corresponding to the summer stage of judgment around the time of
Laozi in his last incarnate up till the time ofMencius , some eighteen instruments of armageddon descended on earth, and another 200 million yuanlings reverted to heaven.The current stage of Souyuan is called the Third Souyuan ("Sanhui Souyuan" 三會收圓or "Sanhui Longhua" 三會龍華, or "Sanqi Mojie" 三期未劫), called "Baiyangqi" (白陽期) or the autumn of Souyuan. It started at the end of the nineteen century, well over a hundred years in running, and still counting. In all some eighty-one instruments of Armageddon, i.e. calamities disasters were and would be deployed to shake up the two realms, that of the living and
hell .The Third Souyuan was approved by the
Jade Emperor Guan Shengdi and initiated by "Wuji Shengmu" who has sympathy on the remaining yuanling on earth and in hell, the process was documented in full in the book "The Feast of Immortal Peaches" (蟠桃宴記).ee also
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Taoism
*Xiuzhen
*Souls
*Chinese folk religion
*Chinese mythology References
*From Tiantang Yiuchi chapter Four:….一本散為萬殊，故曰"眾生"，又謂之"九六原靈"，意取天九地六之象….原靈下凡，初而本性純樸，樹葉遮身，心如原始，不知所以，故生而死，死而歸天。但原靈種子，入土既久，變質變種，中古之世，性靈濁重，有者已不能死而歸天，濁重之氣下沉，故地獄自此成矣。五老在天，傷心欲絕，共議收回之策，…分形降世投胎五方，各為五教教主，傳教授徒，期"普度收原"，然教主去世，教徒又多離經叛道，致使原靈分散道心….，真道普降，廣度緣人，為加速勸化之效，又再藉飛鸞闡教，頒示天音，勸化浪子。....
External links
* [http://www.1bird.net/541a.html Tiantang YiuChi 天堂遊記 in chinese]
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