External cover title and title of the first text: 下堂煉度科壹本 [xiatang liandu ke yiben].
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 16 folios.
Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒乙酉歲八月十三日完筆.
