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.
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.
External cover title: 按龍 救患秘語 [anlong jiuhuan miyu ]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves; Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙子年七月十五日. Calendar note: Stem-b...
Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇上五年癸丑歲六月十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1793 / 1853...
External cover title and title of the first text: 讚車材樓科 [zan che cailou ke ]. Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house and car of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙未歲卯月乙未...
External cover title and title of the first text: 功曹唱 師公意 [gongcao chang shigong yi ]. Instructions to send the deities of messengers to inform and invite all the deities to join the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 106 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太...
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...
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: 符吏啟 會聖 [fuli qi huisheng]. External cover title: 符吏 會聖科 敕壇科 [fuli huisheng ke chitan ke ]. Text to open the ceremony. The Tham Teang ‘original priests’ go to collect the money from the Three Celestial Banks. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 64 folio...
External cover title: 一本交(茭)簡科 破獄科 [yiben jiaojian ke poyu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.