This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [煉度科] [[liandu ke]]. Liandu: Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and ...
Title of the first text: 唱功曹 開山科 同壹冊 [chang gongcao kaishan ke tongyice]. External cover title: 開山科 [kaishan ke]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲寅年二月廿日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausibl...
Title of the first text: 訷䚵(伸斗)科 [shendou ke]. External cover title: 伸斗科 [shendou ke]. Ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to the deities of the elders. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒皇三四年戊申歲四月廿拾...
Title of the first text: 天師戒度??科 [tianshi jiedu ?? 科]. External cover title: 天師械(戒)度科 [tianshi jiedu ke]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 壬子年六月初一日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: ...
External cover title: 招兵科 [zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬子年七月初三甲時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 / 1972. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of...
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: 一本清燈葷筵奉送安壇?內 [yiben qingdeng hunyan fengsogn antan ?nei]. Instructions to arrange and perform a ritual of offering lights and food dedicated to the gods. ...
Title of the first text: 一冊救患科 [yice jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 救患科 [jiuhuan ke]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. Extent and format ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 半(判)座科 [panzuo ke]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats, including the description of the work "flowers" of Tai Mu and instructions to build an ‘earth bridge’ for Tai Mu. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬子年十月初七日稽首癸丑年初三日完畢. Calenda...
External cover title: 小化依小南靈科同壹冊 [xiaohuayi xiaonanling ke tongyice ]. Compilation of two texts: xiao huayi and xiao nanling. Huayi: Ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors; Nanling: Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scen...
Title of the first text: 說醮飛章送聖三獻科同一本 [shuojiao feizhang songsheng sanxian ke tognyiben]. External cover title: 說醮飛章送聖科 [shuojiao feizhang songsheng ke]. Compilation of two texts: shejiao, feizhang and songsheng sanxian. Shejiao: Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a peti...