Subject: Death / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/18
Title:: 血湖經救苦經大部
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 血湖經救苦經大部 [xuehujing jiukujing dabu ]. External cover title: 血湖經救苦經 [xuehu jing jiuku jing ]. A scripture about the function and the merit of the three pools of blood, and the scripture of Jiuku tianzun (Lord of Salvation) is to protect all the ancestors and the dead....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/26
Title:: 破獄交龍煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 破獄交龍煉度科 [poyu jiaolong liandu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the deities to attack the underworld and collect the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 70 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18 Jul 1875
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/34
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 同治十四年六月拾七日抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19 Jul 1875
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/42
Title:: 三夜送終密語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 三夜送終密語 [sanye songzhong miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 10...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 15 Oct 1898-13 Nov 1898
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/46
Title:: 送終燈科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 送終燈科 [songzhong dengke]. Instructions for the dead in the house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 74 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐九年巳未歲珄寶月下旬啟/六月二十一日辰時終筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20 Jul 1859
Extent:: 37 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/47
Title:: 喪家文字惩式
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 喪家文字惩式 [Sangjia wenzi chengshi]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 9 Jul 1959-27 Jun 1860
Extent:: 46 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/25/52
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙丑年正月初十日完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/26/1
Title:: 一本受戒安龍天機秘
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本受戒安龍天機秘 [yiben shoujie anlong tianji mi]. External cover title: 安龍秘 [anlongmi]. Compilation of two texts: An long and Shou jie. An long:Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Shou jie: Magic for the ordination tjai sei....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18 May 1910
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/26/13
Title:: 安龍科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. External cover title: 一本安龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚申年六月二十日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1740 / 1800 / 1860....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1740-1860
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/26/17
Title:: 一本謝王化依科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝王化依科 [yiben xiewang huayi ke ]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丁巳歲二月十五日抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 31 Mar 1856
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

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