This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一冊判座科 [Yice panzuo ke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 辛丑歲冬月. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years ...
External cover title: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke ]. Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 110 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 茭簡破獄二科 [jiaojian poyu erke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions ...
External cover title: 初真科 [chuzhen ke ]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios.
This collection contains 29 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/33/1 to EAP1126/1/33/29. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
External cover title: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke ]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙亥年三月十七日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1815 / 1875...
External cover title: 一本被替科 [yiben beiti ke]. The instructions to teach the boy. The ritual expert translates this book for the boy from formal to vernacular. Moral rules to follow in order to behave like a gentleman/scholar. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios.
External cover title: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 伸斗科一本 [Shendou ke yiben]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Date(s) claimed in...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本開經壇咒 [Yiben kaijingtan zhou]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Extent and format of...