Taishang Dongxuan Lingbao Jinggong Miaojing (The Wonderful Scripture of Pure Offerings of the Numinous Treasure of the Cavernous Mystery of the Supreme Oneness), the author of which is unknown.
Judging from its content and wording, it should have been written by Taoist priests during the Sui and Tang dynasties.
It consists of one scroll and is included in the Text category of the Cavernous Mystery section of the Daozang (Taoist Canon).
The scripture is pseudonymously attributed to three True Persons—Yuluqiao, Guangmiaoyin, and Zhendingguang—preaching to Ge Xuan, the Taiji Immortal Lord. It states that if people in the world wish to avoid the sufferings of hell, they should invite Taoist priests to perform rituals on the auspicious days of the Three Primes and the Five La Festivals, prepare sesame oil and fruits to offer to the Heavenly Worthies, and hold sacrifices to honor their seven generations of ancestors. By doing so, they can free themselves from past sins, plant seeds of blessings for future lives, and also make the souls of their ancestors rejoice, ensuring that all demons will not come to inflict harm.
It also claims that there are two types of merits from offerings: first, the marked offering, which is called finite; second, the unmarked offering, which is called pure offering and is named infinite. Those who can perform infinite pure offerings and present the eight-zhang-tall Great Fruit Mountain as an endless offering can attain the supreme Dao, with merits that are vast and boundless.
At the end of the text, it criticizes the Sanyuan Yujing Xuandu Daxian Jing (The Scripture of the Great Offering at the Mysterious Metropolis of Jade Capital of the Three Primes), which proves that this scripture was compiled after that text.
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