External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本破獄煉度茭龍科 [yiben poyu liandu jiaolong ke].
Compilation of three texts: Poyu, Jiaojian and Liandu Mi. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Jiaojian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place. 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.
Custodial history: Private collection.
Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios.
Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲？丁亥年七月二十三日抄完.
