Title of the first text: 壹本日午燈筵安龍化衣(依)秘語 [yiben riwu dengyan anlong huayi miyu]. External cover title: 日午燈筵謝墓安龍化衣(依) [riwu dengyan xiemu anlong huayi]. Compilation of several texts: riwu dengyan, anlong and huayi. Riwu dengyan: Chanting to invite the deities into the house/altar; Anlong: Instr...
Title of the first text: 大治邙(亡)玉皇清醮秘語 [da zhiwang yuhuang qingjiao miyu]. External cover title: 一本大治亡秘語 [yiben da zhiwang miyu ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲甲子年五月乙亥腨甲申旬越至丁亥日. Calen...
Title of the first text: 送終三值秘語一本 [songzong sanzhi miyu yiben]. External cover title: 送終秘語一本 [songzhong miyu yiben]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 154 folios. Date(s) claimed in ...
External cover title: 按龍秘語受戒二本 [anlong miyu shoujie erben ]. Compilation of two texts:anlong and shoujie. Anlong: Miscellaneous instructions about details of the ritual and the ceremony in the funeral; Shoujie: Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist...
Title of the first text: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. External cover title: 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date...
Title of the first text: 大喃靈科 [da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大部喃靈科 [dabu nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 92 folios. Date(s) claime...
Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲己酉年夷則庚午腨甲辰旬. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1909 / 196...
Title of the first text: 釋服祝從讃車科 [shifu zhucong zanche ke]. External cover title: 一本釋服讃車從人科 [yiben shifu zanche congren ke]. Ceremony of giving the deceased parents or husbands and wives some “people”, so that the death can order "servants" in the heavens. Besides, opening the light for the Ba...
Title of the first text: 一本安龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲癸未年午月甲辰腨甲寅旬越至壬戌日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1883 / 1...
Title of the first text: 喪家書科 送終一夜共燈文科 [sangjiashu ke songzhong yiye gongdengwen ke ]. External cover title: 送終一夜 燈文喪家同一本 [songzhong yiye dengwen sangjia tongyiben ]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript:...