Title of the first text: 喃相科 受戒道師皈依同本 [nanxiang ke shoujie daoshi guiyi tongben]. External cover title: 喃相科 受戒皈依道師在尾 [nanxiang ke shoujie guiyi daoshi zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: nanxiang and shoujie. Nanxiang: Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods; Shoujie: Miscellaneous instructi...
External cover title and title of the first text: 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 58 folios.
Title of the first text: 上卷南靈科 [shangjuan nanling ke]. External cover title: 南靈科 [nanling ke]. 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: 太歲乙丑年正月十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches ...
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 ...