Title of the first text: 壹冊邙(亡)秘金語全本 [yice wangmi jinyu quanben]. External cover title: 一冊邙(亡)秘金語 [yice mangmi jinyu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬寅年九月十五日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-bran...
Title of the first text: 燈筵 伸斗 按龍天機 解冤 朝天諸蜜(秘) [dengyan shendou anlongtianji jieyuan chaotian zhumi]. External cover title: 救患天機 [jiuhuan tianji]. Ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to the deities of the elders; Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ance...
External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乾隆肆拾五年庚子歲癸未月戊申日.
Title of the first text: 茭龍科破獄科共一本 [jiaolong ke poyu ke gongyiben]. External cover title: 茭龍破獄科 [jiaolong poyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaolong and Poyu. Jiaolong: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death r...
External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tablet. The...
Title of the first text: 一本喃靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本大部喃靈科 [yiben dabu nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊子年四月初二日午時. Calendar note: S...
This collection contains 37 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/2/1 to EAP1126/1/2/37. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Title of the first text: 喪家度亡秘語 [sangjia duwang miyu]. External cover title: 喪家度亡秘語一本 [sangjia duwang miyu yiben]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 130 folios. Date(s) claim...
This manuscript has no internal cover title for the first text. The given title is for the title on the outer cover. External cover title: 安龍伸斗 日午燈筵 雷府解冤秘語共一冊 [anlongshendou riwudengyan leifujieyuan miyu gongyice]. Compilation of several texts: anlong, shendou and so on. Miscellaneous instruct...