External cover title and title of the first text: 南昌大煉科 [nanchang dalian ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual; last part. They are bathed with water. In the last part of this ceremony, they are ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 化依科壹本一冊從人科在中讃樓科在尾 [huayi ke yiben yice congren ke zaizhong zanlou ke zaiwei]. Compilation of three texts: Hua yi, Cong ren, and Zan (cai)lou. Hua yi: Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Cong...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本判座賀樓大橋臺科 [yiben panzuo helou daqiaotai ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. It contains instructions so this house has everything in the three levels. It says w...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本血湖經 [Yiben xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted t...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本師小煉?書 [Yibenshixiaolian?shu]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual; last p...
This collection contains 19 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/30/1 to EAP791/1/30/19. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
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: 南靈一本科 [nanling yibenke.] Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodia...
External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 30 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十五年巳丑歲七月中旬終筆.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 化依沐浴科 [Huayi muyu ke]. Instructions for bathing the deceased and making the paper clothes for them. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original m...
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: 救患秘語. [jiuhuan miyu]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the ba...