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玉樞經和道教圖像學安保羅美國夏威夷大學宗教系副教授The Scripture of the Jade Pivot 玉樞經 and Daoist Iconography POUL ANDERSEN Department of Religion, University of Hawaii Abstract The focus of this paper is the Scripture of the Jade Pivot, Yushu jing 玉樞經, one of the crucial texts of modern Daoism, and the main scriptural expression of the Thunder Rites of the Shenxiao 神霄 tradition. The scripture is the central vehicle of the Celestial Worthy Who Transforms All through the Sound of Thunder, Leisheng Puhua Tianzun 雷聲普化天尊, the supreme Daoist god of thunder. It appears to have been written around 1200, if not by Bai Yuchan 白玉蟾 1194-1229 himself, then certainly in a milieu associated with Bai, the so-called Fifth Patriarch of the Southern School of inner alchemy. Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has been revered, not only by Daoists, but also by self-declared Confucians, and not the least in circles dedicated to self-cultivation framed by the notion of the unity of the Three Religions 三教合一 . To this day, it continues to be one of the most important scriptures chanted, and indeed performed, as part of many different kinds of Daoist liturgy. During my stay at the Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei in the spring of 2009, I have continued my research on several aspects of this scripture, notably, on the textual variants and the dating of the various editions of the text; on the local context in which the scripture originated and the question of the specific religious affiliation of the text; and on the significance of the illustrations of the text, both for this historical work and for Daoist iconography in general. I shall touch today on all of these issues, and in the following order: Firstly, I shall demonstrate the great importance of the study of textual variants by showing the discrepancies between the versions of an associated scripture, the True Scripture of Showing Repentance toward Thunder, Xielei zhenjing 謝雷真經, found both in the Daoist Canon of 1444-45 and in a printed col