--- title: "Taishang Ganying Pian 太上感應篇 – English Interpretation | Daozang" url: "https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/" canonical: "https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/" lang: "en" edition: - "Source: Kanripo (Kyoto University)" - "Daozang section: 太清部" - "Kanripo ID: KR5f0001" - "Base edition (Kanripo): 正統道藏・涵芬樓版 (HFL)" - "Witness (Kanripo): 正統道藏・涵芬樓版 (HFL)" - "Size: 30 volumes · 139,194 characters" source: "Kanripo 漢籍リポジトリ（京都大学）" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" --- # 《太上感應篇》 Taiqing 太清部 · 30 volumes · 139,194 characters ## Introduction ### What this book is 《太上感应篇》 (Taishang Ganying Pian, “The Treatise on Response and Retribution”) is a book that urges people to do good, centered on fortune and misfortune, good and evil, and the thoughts that arise in people’s minds. Its opening states that people bring fortune and misfortune upon themselves, and uses the stories of Wei Zhongda and Duke Zhao Kangjing to explain that both thoughts and actions are bound up with the retribution for good and evil. This site lists it in the Taiqing section of the Daoist Canon. ### Authorship and date The book bears the attribution “transmitted by Li Changling, with a panegyric by Zheng Qingzhi.” Li Changling transmitted its text, and Zheng Qingzhi composed the panegyric; this does not mean that the two were the authors of the entire book. The book’s author and date of composition are unknown, and related questions of attribution and dating are disputed; a definitive judgment should not be based on the attribution at the beginning alone. ### Structure The edition included on this site comprises thirty juan and about 139,000 characters. It bears the attribution “transmitted by Li Changling, with a panegyric by Zheng Qingzhi” at the beginning. The text consists of explanations of the treatise’s meaning, stories, panegyrics, and other material. It is extensive and suited to reading one juan at a time. The base text for this edition on the site comes from Kyoto University’s Kanripo Chinese Classics Repository. ### Core ideas The opening emphasizes that thoughts of good and evil can call forth corresponding fortune and misfortune, and uses “like shadow following form” as a metaphor for the retribution for good and evil. The story of Wei Zhongda highlights that thoughts, too, are recorded; the story of Duke Zhao Kangjing, who used bottles and beans to record good and evil, presents a practice of daily self-examination and gradual self-cultivation. These narratives can be read as expressions of the idea of urging people to do good; there is no need to take the details of the stories directly as historical fact. ### How to read it on this site The original text and a plain-language interpretation are presented paragraph by paragraph for comparison. The page allows readers to switch between traditional Chinese and interpretations in other languages. The book is extensive and can be read one juan at a time. 本站编辑整理；原文据 Kanripo 漢籍リポジトリ KR5f0001 ## About this edition - **Source**: Kanripo (Kyoto University) - **Daozang section**: 太清部 - **Kanripo ID**: [`KR5f0001`](https://github.com/kanripo/KR5f0001) - **Base edition (Kanripo)**: 正統道藏・涵芬樓版 (`HFL`) - **Witness (Kanripo)**: 正統道藏・涵芬樓版 (`HFL`) - **Size**: 30 volumes · 139,194 characters ## Contents (30 volumes) - [Vol. 1](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/1/index.md) - [Vol. 2](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/2/index.md) - [Vol. 3](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/3/index.md) - [Vol. 4](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/4/index.md) - [Vol. 5](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/5/index.md) - [Vol. 6](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/6/index.md) - [Vol. 7](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/7/index.md) - [Vol. 8](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/8/index.md) - [Vol. 9](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/9/index.md) - [Vol. 10](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/10/index.md) - [Vol. 11](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/11/index.md) - [Vol. 12](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/12/index.md) - [Vol. 13](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/13/index.md) - [Vol. 14](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/14/index.md) - [Vol. 15](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/15/index.md) - [Vol. 16](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/16/index.md) - [Vol. 17](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/17/index.md) - [Vol. 18](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/18/index.md) - [Vol. 19](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/19/index.md) - [Vol. 20](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/20/index.md) - [Vol. 21](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/21/index.md) - [Vol. 22](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/22/index.md) - [Vol. 23](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/23/index.md) - [Vol. 24](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/24/index.md) - [Vol. 25](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/25/index.md) - [Vol. 26](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/26/index.md) - [Vol. 27](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/27/index.md) - [Vol. 28](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/28/index.md) - [Vol. 29](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/29/index.md) - [Vol. 30](https://daozang.app/en/text/KR5f0001/juan/30/index.md) --- 原文底本：Kanripo 漢籍リポジトリ（京都大学），CC BY-SA 4.0。 Source text: Kanripo Chinese Classics Repository (Kyoto University), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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