What are the thirteen categories of three holes and four supplements? What is its position in the compilation of Taoist scriptures?

Three caves and four auxiliary are the general names of Taoist scriptures. The first Taoist scripture was compiled by Lu Yu, a Taoist priest in the Southern Song Dynasty, during Taishi period. After Zhang Junfang in the Song Dynasty and Shao Yizheng in the Ming Dynasty, Taoist scriptures were still classified as three caves and four auxiliaries, so the three caves and four auxiliaries became synonymous with the classification of Taoist collections.

The three caves refer to the real body part, the divine body part and the mysterious part of the cave.

The four auxiliary departments are Taixuan Department, Taiping Department, Taiqing Department and Zhengyi Department.

Three caves are classics, and four auxiliary caves are the elaboration and supplement of three caves. Taixuan auxiliary cave is true, Taiping auxiliary cave is mysterious, and Taiqing auxiliary cave god. One is a supplement to the above ministries. "Three Caves" and "Four Ancients" are also called "Seven Departments".

Three holes mean "communication", which means that reciting these classics can reach the realm of communication with the gods. The concept of three caves began to take shape in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty. When Lu compiled the Catalogue of Three-hole Classics, he used the three-hole classification and called himself a disciple of three holes. This concept is basically stereotyped.

These three holes include:

The true part of the acupoint: namely, the supernatant meridian.

Cave and Mystery Department; That is, Lingbao Sutra

Cave God Department: including san huang and other books that summon ghosts and gods.

With the increase of Confucian classics, it is impossible to include all Confucian classics through three-hole cataloging, so the classification of four auxiliary books appears, which is an auxiliary and supplement to the three-hole Confucian classics. Including: the mysterious system: assisting the truth of the cave.

Taiping Department: The Mystery of the Auxiliary Cave

Taiqing Department: Auxiliary Cave God

Front one: running through all ministries

This classification was first seen in Zhengyi French classics and textbooks.

After four auxiliary classifications appeared, twelve classifications appeared. Is to subdivide the three caves into twelve parts, ***36. The fourth auxiliary is not divided. It was first recorded in Dong Zhen Tai Shang Cang Yuan, and it was stereotyped in Taoism. Including:

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