Tai Shang Tai Qing Tian Tong Hu Ming Miao Jing
Author unknown. It was probably compiled in the late Tang Dynasty.
This scripture had already been quoted in Du Guangting’s Records of Taoist Miracles. Both the Secret Catalogue of the Southern Song Dynasty and Bibliographic Survey of the Comprehensive Records of the History recorded it as a one-volume text, which is included in the Benwen Section of the Dongshen Division in the Daozang (Daoist Canon).
Purporting to be a teaching transmitted by the Supreme Lord Laozi, the scripture states that if Taoist practitioners as well as men and women in the mortal world recite this text, immortals, divine generals and celestial soldiers will come to guard the reciters, fend off wild beasts, ward off ghosts, cure illnesses, dispel disasters, prolong lifespan and ensure eternal longevity. The text also contains twenty-four spirit talismans for dispelling disasters and curing diseases, which were said to be imparted by Lord Laozi. If these talismans are written, worn or swallowed in accordance with the prescribed methods, they can also exorcise evil spirits and treat illnesses.
At the end of the Daozang version of this scripture, there is a postscript written by Fu Xiao, a Taoist priest of Maoshan, in the Jiazi year of the Shaoxing reign period of the Song Dynasty. It claims that on the thirteenth day of the fourth lunar month in the third year of the Daguan reign period (1109 CE), Liang Wuzhen of Maoshan encountered the Supreme Lord Laozi, who transmitted to him the "Expanded Version of the Wonderful Scripture of the Heavenly Boy Protecting Life" and instructed him to recite it with undivided attention, eventually enabling him to attain immortality.
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