This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本開山 齋醮初請法 [Yiben kaishan zhaijiao chuqing fa]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 122 fo...
Title of the first text: 一本煉科 [yiben lianke]. External cover title: 一本師科 [yiben shike]. Instructions about providing offerings for the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 已亥年正月初九日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1875 / 1935. Extent and forma...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本飛章科 [yiben feizhang ke ]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further working in the area. The dragon clean the path for the forthcoming works. ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本座科 [yiben zuoke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 66 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本會聖勅壇宿啟科 [yiben huisheng chitan suqi ke]. Compilation of three texts: Huisheng: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Suqi:The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 92 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國二十二年癸酉歲九月十二日完筆.
Title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. External cover title: 一本煉度科 [yiben liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本南靈科 迓王科 [Yiben nanling ke yawang ke]. Compilation of two texts: Nanlinag and Yawang. Nanling:I nstructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names...
Title of the first text: 設醮科 飛章科 [shejiao ke feizhang ke ]. External cover title: 飛章科 [feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further working in the area. The dragon clean the path for...
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: 一本神目科 [yiben shenmu ke]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, e...