Title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇號壬申年八月十九. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1812 / 1872. Extent and for...
Title of the first text: 師公通科一本 [shigong tongke yiben]. External cover title: 一本接聖科師通用科大獻科 [yiben jiesheng ke shitongyong ke daxian ke]. A manual about instructions and verses used and chanted in the rituals for Daoist priests, including instructions to direct all Celestial deities invited to ...
This collection contains 63 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/3/1 to EAP1126/1/3/63. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
External cover title and title of the first text: 清燈葷筵同一本 [qingdeng hunyan tongyiben]. Instructions to arrange and perform a ritual of offering lights and food dedicated to the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲癸未歲巳月甲戌腨甲戌旬越至丙子日巳時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cyc...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲己未年壬甲腨甲寅旬越至壬甲日午時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1919 / 1979. Extent...
Title of the first text: 一本貢筵救患洪樓科 [yiben gongyan jiuhuan honglong ke]. External cover title: 一本救患科 [yiben 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 ...
Title of the first text: 一本判座科 [yiben panzuo ke]. External cover title: 判座科 [panzuo ke]. The description of the work "flowers" of Tai Mu and instructions to build an ‘earth bridge’ for Tei Mu. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲丁亥年未月巳酉腨甲寅旬越至甲寅日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本授械(戒)川光科 [yiben shoujie chuanguang ke]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰年五月十五日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1916 / 1976. ...
Title of the first text: 師公書式 [shigongshushi]. External cover title: 師公式 [shigongshi]. Miscellaneous manual used by Daoist "Shigong". Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 132 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐壬子年二月中旬.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本大齋良緣秘語 [yiben dazhai liangyuan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲壬子年夷則月壬午腨甲戌旬越至癸未日午時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 /...