External cover title and title of the first text: 開山科 [kaishan ke ]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 110 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 授械(戒)秘語 [shoujie miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲丁酉年晨月甲申旬甲寅腨至丙戌日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausibl...
Title of the first text: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu ]. External cover title: 齋醮良緣秘語 [zhaijiao liangyuan miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including dispel the disaster. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 214 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscri...
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: 淨壇 二宮 三宮科 [jingtan ergong sangong ke ]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. ...
Title of the first text: 法書 [fashu ]. External cover title: 手簡法戔 [shoujian fajian ]. Instruction about dispeling the illness or disasters, like a magic manual for Daoist. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乾隆五拾壹年丙午歲十二月初四.
This collection contains 24 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/6/1 to EAP1126/1/6/24. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
External cover title: 一本救患日午秘 [yiben jiuhuan riwu mi ]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲戌年. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1814 / 1874. Extent and format o...
Title of the first text: 大小齋秘語 [daxiaozhai miyu ]. External cover title: 大齋秘語 [dazhai miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including dispel the disaster. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 126 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒二十一年乙...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [論主人初來請法] [[kun zhuren chulai qingfa]]. Instruction about different kinds of rituals, including dispeling the illness or diasters, fixing the tombs and other magics. Exten...
Title of the first text: 一本小百治法 [yiben xiaobaizhi fa ]. External cover title: 一本小百治山膓保苗秘語 [yiben xiaobaizhi shanchang baomiao miyu ]. Magic for the planting the rice ceremony ai song. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios.