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 in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cann...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本関告敕壇科 [yiben guangao chitan ke]. Compilation of two texts: Guangao and Chitan. Guangao:Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本茭簡科 [Yiben jiaojian ke]. Instructions including sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased and to let them know that the secondary death ritual...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本伸斗科 [yiben shendou ke]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊戌年七月抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
External cover title and title of the first text: 招兵科 [zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cannot eat t...
External cover title and title of the first text: 度人道場科 [duren daochang ke ]. Instructions to cleansing the body of the novice (cleanse the past mistakes). A purification ritual so he can start the ritual ‘cleansed.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios.
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: 玄門授戒道 [xuanmen shoujie dao ]. Initiation ceremony for the ordination of the young Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 ...
External cover title: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本集謝秘語 [yiben jixie miyu]. Instructions about acknowledging the grace from the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 李氏本命辛卯年二月初四建. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1831 / 1891. Extent and format o...
External cover title and title of the first text: 小百解一本 [xiaobaijie yiben ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐四年.