Title of the first text: 一本大南靈科 [yiben da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科一本 [da nanling ke yiben ]. 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: 辛未年林鐘月. Calendar note: Stem-...
External cover title: 迓王到此召靈參拜享食 [yawang daoci zhaoling canbai xiangshi ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios.
External cover title: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios.
Title of the first text: 南昌煉度科終 [nanchang liandu ke ]. External cover title: 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 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丙辰歲十一月二十一日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 茭簡 破獄 讚才樓科 [jiaojian poyu zancailou ke]. Compilation of three texts: Jiao jian, Po yu, Zan cai lou. Jiao jian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is ta...
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: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second de...
External cover title: 諸貝欠? 天機金語 [zhu ?tianji miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions to resolve problems caused by deaths in a bad date. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.
Title of the first text: 斎亡金語 [zhaiwang jinyu]. External cover title: 一本大亡秘 [yiben da wangmi]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙亥年十...
This collection contains 14 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/28/1 to EAP1126/1/28/14. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Title of the first text: 救苦經一部 [jiuku jing yibu]. External cover title: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒十九年癸巳歲雷分.