Tai Shang Shuo Lun Zhuan Wu Dao Su Ming Yin Yuan Jing
Author unknown. Judging from its textual content and language style, it is believed to have been composed during the Tang Dynasty.
Consisting of one volume, it is included in the Benwen Section of the Dongshen Division in the Daozang (Daoist Canon).
The scripture states that the Supreme Lord Laozi, under the Shijule Tree in Sravasti, expounded on the karmic causes and conditions of fate and transmigration through the Five Paths together with the True Person Zuo Xuan and other immortals and true beings. It asserts that all the blessings and misfortunes people experience in their present life are retributions for their deeds in past lives. It exhorts people to burn incense, practice the Dao, observe fasts, recite scriptures, light lamps to maintain brightness, practice charity and do good deeds, and cultivate fields of merit, in order to seek blessed rewards.
The text contains the ritual of lighting lamps to maintain brightness.
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