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Souyuan (收圓 or 收原) in the Taoist eschatology is equivalent to the Judgment Day. Sou means collect, Yuan (圓) a cycle, to round off or complete, taken together Souyuan can be translated as to reclaim, to complete the circle or cycle, or to absolve and judge. Souyuan as in 收原 literally means to reclaim the Yuanlings or primordial souls. The process is also called Pudu (普度) or Mojie (未劫).

Souyuan is to induct the yuanling (原靈 also yuanren 原人) from the realms of the living and hell back to heaven.

1 Stages of Souyuan
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Stages of Souyuan

Two previous Souyuan had been decreed by heaven, the first one around the time of Fuxi and Yellow Emperor called the First Souyuan or Qingyangqi (青陽期) corresponding to the Spring of absolution, it was sometimes called Longhan (龍漢). Nine instruments of armageddon (劫) or disasters accompanied that event in which some 200 million yuanling were reclaimed.

The Second Souyuan was called the Hongyangchi (紅陽期), also Chiming (赤明) corresponding to the summer stage of judgment around the time of Laozi in his last incarnate up till the time of Mencius, some eighteen instruments of armageddon descended on earth, and another 200 million yuanlings reverted to heaven.

The current stage of Souyuan is called the Third Souyuan (Sanhui Souyuan 三會收圓or Sanhui Longhua 三會龍華, or Sanqi Mojie 三期未劫), called Baiyangqi (白陽期) or the autumn of Souyuan. It started at the end of the nineteen century, well over a hundred years in running, and still counting. In all some eighty-one instruments of Armageddon, i.e. calamities disasters were and would be deployed to shake up the two realms, that of the living and hell.

The Third Souyuan was approved by the Jade Emperor Guan Shengdi and initiated by Wuji Shengmu who has sympathy on the remaining yuanling on earth and in hell, the process was documented in full in the book The Feast of Immortal Peaches (蟠桃宴記).

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