Title of the first text: 壹本橋台科 [yiben qiaotai ke]. External cover title: 一本橋臺 [yiben qiaotai]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 21 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Title of the first text: 重集斎短蜜語 [chongji zhai duan miyu]. External cover title: 重集斎短亡秘語 [chongji zhai duanwang miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions for ceremonies used in the retreat for the sake of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
External cover title: 治煞秘 [zhisha mi]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十八年壬辰歲六月初七終畢.
External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本說醮飛章科 [yiben shuojiao feizhang ke]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 諸件百解全集 [Zhujian baijie quanji]. Miscellaneous instructions aboutexorcistic healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救患天機秘一卷 [Jiuhuan tianji mi yijuan]. 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 ...
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. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 44 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 咸豐二年壬子歲次四月十一日開筆.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 先主來請聖之法 [Xianzhu lai qingsheng zhi fa]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals, ceremony in Taoist rituals or funerals. Custodial history: Private col...
External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tabl...