Taishang Dongxuan Lingbao Jingtu Shengshen Jing (The Scripture of Birth of the Divine in the Pure Land of the Numinous Treasure of the Cavernous Mystery of the Supreme Oneness), the author of which is unknown. It is likely to have been composed during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The original text consists of one scroll and was not included in the Zhengtong Daozang (Orthodox Taoist Canon).
It is recorded in the Daozang Quejing Mulu (Catalogue of Lost Scriptures in the Taoist Canon). Three fragmentary Tang-dynasty Dunhuang manuscripts (P2383, P2401, P4730) of this scripture survive today, among which manuscript P2383 is complete from beginning to end and preserves the entire text of the scripture. The scripture is pseudonymously attributed to the Heavenly Worthy delivering the teachings, narrating karmic causes and conditions of past lives, and exhorting people in the world to accumulate merits and cultivate blessings to seek rebirth in the Pure Land. Its doctrines were influenced by Buddhism.
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