External cover title and title of the first text: 延生三時科 [yanshengsanshike]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the host. These three audiences may also refer to thee propicious full-moons within a year; same stru...
Title of the first text: 二寈招羅五兵 [erqing zhaoluo wubing]. External cover title: 二寈招兵 [erqing zhaobing]. A scenario for summoning tutelary and other deities, with their myths and associated folkstories as the background for the ritual. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format o...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 郎蜜金語一冊 [Langmi jinyu yice]. Discussions and instructions about the various rituals in the ceremony. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original m...
Title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawangke]. External cover title: 迓王科壹本 [yawangke yiben]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 18 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十七年...
External cover title and title of the first text: 啟師破嶽科 茭簡在頭 [qishi poyu ke jiaojian zaitou]. Instructions for sending a Messenger-Dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased, imploring the gods - assistance to the Original Masters - to break the gates of the Purgatory, for the salvation of...
Title of the first text: 喪家秘語 [sang jia miyu]. External cover title: 送終度亡三應老水圖 [songzong duwang san ying lao shui tu]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
Title of the first text: 洪恩金語一冊 [hongenjinyuyice]. External cover title: 一本洪恩秘語 [yiben hong'en miyu]. Magic to cleanse the land and recreate a new world after the flood; the flood-myth is recreated in order to cleanse and renew the universe. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 清醮秘語一本 [Qingjiao miyu yiben]. Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments of gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. These pay...
Title of the first text: 延生救苦宿啟 [yansheng jiuku suqi]. External cover title: 延生救苦宿啟科 [yansheng jiuku suqi ke]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the host. Ceremony to ensure the salvation of the newly deceased....
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 伸斗告良科 [Shendou gaoliang ke]. First ceremony for the ‘old people' (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to the Deities of the Elders (Lanten: Tao Man). Custo...