南昌煉度科

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: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang 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 join the ancestors’ tablet. The dead are bathed, get new clothes and are fed. They become official ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 38 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丙辰歲十一月十九日抄完.