Title of the first text: 上卷南靈科 [shangjuan nanling ke]. External cover title: 南靈科 [nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙丑年正月十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [煉度科] [[liandu ke]]. Liandu: Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and ...
External cover title: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios.
External cover title: 一本謝境王雷王水符王 [yiben xie jingwang leiwang shufiuwang]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt; Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thunder that people may casually meet in the Forest; and heal...
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: 壹本日午燈筵安龍化衣(依)秘語 [yiben riwu dengyan anlong huayi miyu]. External cover title: 日午燈筵謝墓安龍化衣(依) [riwu dengyan xiemu anlong huayi]. Compilation of several texts: riwu dengyan, anlong and huayi. Riwu dengyan: Chanting to invite the deities into the house/altar; Anlong: Instr...
Title of the first text: 大治邙(亡)玉皇清醮秘語 [da zhiwang yuhuang qingjiao miyu]. External cover title: 一本大治亡秘語 [yiben da zhiwang miyu ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲甲子年五月乙亥腨甲申旬越至丁亥日. Calen...
Title of the first text: 送終三值秘語一本 [songzong sanzhi miyu yiben]. External cover title: 送終秘語一本 [songzhong miyu yiben]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 154 folios. Date(s) claimed in ...
External cover title: 按龍秘語受戒二本 [anlong miyu shoujie erben ]. Compilation of two texts:anlong and shoujie. Anlong: Miscellaneous instructions about details of the ritual and the ceremony in the funeral; Shoujie: Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist...
Title of the first text: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. External cover title: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date...