Title of the first text: 一本邙秘語 [yiben wang miyu ]. External cover title: 論邙秘清醮秘之法 [lun wangmi qingjiao mi zhifa ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios.
This collection contains 13 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/9/1 to EAP1126/1/9/13. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本救患按龍秘語 [Yiben jiuhuan anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves; Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healin...
Title of the first text: 一本老君金語共本秘語絕亡在尾 送終秘語三夜 [yiben laojun jinyu gongben miyu juewang zaiwei songzhong miyu sanye ]. External cover title: 一本老君金語 送終秘語三夜 [yiben laojun jinyu songzhong miyu sanye ]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist-healing ritual and moral instruction for the newly decea...
Title of the first text: 壹論替大首茒人法 [yilun ti dashou maoren fa ]. External cover title: 百解秘語 [baijie miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 8 folios.
Title of the first text: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu ]. External cover title: 論清醮秘 [lun qingjiao mi ]. Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to occupy seats in the altars. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 96 folios.
Title of the first text: 大齋短秘語一本 [dazhai duan miyu yiben ]. External cover title: 大齋短語蚉 [dazhai duanyu wen]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 82 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐貳?十一月望日謄筆.
External cover title: 壹冊師初真受戒天金語 [yice shi chuzhen shoujie tian jinyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.
Title of the first text: 貢筵洪恩秘壹本 [gongyan hongen mi yiben ]. External cover title: 輪洪恩秘 [shu hongen mi ]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲癸巳年七月初六日午時抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 招兵科 [Zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 90 folios.