External cover title and title of the first text: 破獄 交龍 煉度科 [poyu jiaolong liandu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the deities to attack the underworld and collect the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 70 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
Title of the first text: 一本受戒秘語 道教在頭 師教在尾 [yiben shoujie miyu daojiao zaitou shijiao zaiwei]. External cover title: 一本受戒秘語 [yiben shoujie miyu]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本日午燈延 安龍解冤秘語 [yiben riwu dengyan anlong jieyuan miyu]. 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. “Thi...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝雷秘語 [yiben xielei miyu ]. Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thunder that people may casually meet in the Forest. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 伸斗按龍解冤救患秘語一本 [shendou anlong jieyuan jiuhuan miyu yiben ]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their f...
External cover title and title of the first text: 醮関告 醮敕壇 醮說醮 同一本 [jiao guangao jiao chitan jiao shuojiao tongyiben]. Compilation of three texts: Guangao, Chitan and Shejiao. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Shejiao: Ceremony to hold an off...
Title of the first text: 茭龍科在頭 下堂煉度科 迓王科在中 重集啟師破獄科在尾 [jiaolong ke zaitou xiatang liandu ke yawang ke zaizhong chongqi qishi poyu ke zaiwei ]. External cover title: 茭簡 煉度 迓王 破獄科全本 [jiaojian liandu yawang poyu ke quanben]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Ke...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 淨壇 設醮 飛章 送聖 [Jingtan shejiao feizhang songsheng]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host; and offe...
External cover title: 龍重 交簡 迓王 煉度科 [longzhong jiaojian yawang liandu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory.Yawang: Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory.Liandu: Instructions to purify the bodies of the ancestors once they have rescued from the Purgatory du...
External cover title: 一本符吏 敕壇 關告 宿啟 科 [yiben fuli chitan guangao suqi ke]. Compilation of four texts: Fuli Chitan Guangao and Suqi. Fuli: Instruction for summoning the spell officials. Guangao and Chitan. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Su...