Isaac Genshaw has recorded my English translation of the entire Tang Jingjiao corpus as a free audiobook on his YouTube channel, Beyond The Wall of Life. The recording reads all seven documents in full, from the Xi’an Stele to the Dunhuang manuscripts, over about two and a half hours, set to Tang-era music. I am grateful to Isaac for this labor of love.
The recording
- Stele of the Diffusion of Daqin Jingjiao in China, and Preface (0:00:18)
- Hymn in Praise of the Salvation Achieved through the Three Majesties of Jingjiao (0:27:21)
- Honored Persons and Sacred Books (0:30:58)
- Discourse on the One God (0:35:09)
- Book of the Righteous Meditator (1:28:36)
- Book on Profound and Mysterious Blessedness (1:50:27)
- Book of Daqin Jingjiao on Revealing the Origin and the Deepest Foundation, combining the Luoyang Pillar and the Dunhuang manuscript (2:13:49)
The translation
The translation comes from one of my books, Science, Religion(s), and Spirit(s) in China: A Constructive Chinese Theology of Creation Based on Jingjiao’s Qi-tological Theology, with a New English Translation of the Entire Tang Jingjiao Corpus (Leiden: Brill, 2026). The book is open access under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and free to read and download.
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