Rituals of Morning and Evening Chanting Daoist Temples

Imagine that you are a Daoist nun, or monk or priest, living in a temple on a mountaintop in China. What is the first thing you do when you get up when it gets light at five o’clock in the morning or earlier? You hurry (carefully) to the main hall of the temple, you drape your red or yellow cloak over your standard blue robe, and wait until the percussion starts to begin reciting the daily Daoist liturgy, – as you do every morning and every evening of every day that you live in the temple or monastery. Not too much is known or published about this practice in the West, although a few translations have become available in Western languages more recently, it forms the core of the daily practice in Daoist temple communities. The Morning and Evening Recitations of Merit is a collection of short texts divided into two parts, one to be recited in the morning, the other in the evening. I will give an introduction about the how, who, and why of reciting texts in a religious Daoist setting, and follow that up with a concise overview of the content of the Morning and Evening Recitation’s constituent parts. The compound nature of the text, combining incantations, hymns of praise, refuges, and vows, and scriptures with more philosophical or doctrinal content, make the Morning and Evening Recitations of Merit also a great way to get a quick introduction into different types of Daoist religious scripture.
Sander Vink is a translator of Daoist texts with a special interest in the 早晚壇功課經 (Zaowantan Gongkejing), or in English, the Morning and Evening Recitations of Merit that are performed daily by every temple dwelling Daoist in China and communities of Daoist practitioners all over
the world.
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