External cover title: 一本茭簡破獄科 [yiben jiaojian poyu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰䚴正月初三日巳時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: ...
External cover title: 一本盤皇接聖科 [yiben panhuang jiesheng ke ]. Instruction to direct all Celestial deities invited to the ceremony to occupy their seats at the main altar. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲寅年八月十六日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dat...
Title of the first text: 通用科 [tongyong ke ]. External cover title: 一本通用科 [yiben tongyong ke ]. A manual about instructions and verses used and chanted in the rituals for Daoist priests. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰年十二月二十四日申時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle...
Title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. External cover title: 壹本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊午年六月初五日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1918 / 1978....
Title of the first text: 小喃靈科一本 [xiao nanling ke yiben ]. External cover title: 小喃靈科壹本 [xiao nanling ke yiben ]. Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scenario. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 38 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 清?皇二年八月...
Title of the first text: 一冊送鬼科 [yice songgui ke ]. External cover title: 壹本送聖科 [yiben songsheng ke ]. Offering flowers and wine, etc. several times and dispatching the gods sincerely at the end. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁卯年七月初三日申時終筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
External cover title: 一本集謝雷王境求財科 [yiben jixie leiwang jing qiucai ke ]. Ceremony to resolve the problems with deities of hunters, rivers and armies. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬戌年九月初八日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1922 / 1982. Ext...
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: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify the bodies of the ancestors once they have rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本招兵科全本 [Yiben zhaobing ke quanben]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 82 folios...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本清醮秘語 [Yiben qingjiao miyu]. 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...