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“Ritual Texts for the Water and Land Rite of Heaven and Earth, the Nether and Yang Realms” is closely connected with Water and Land Dharma Assemblies, food offering rituals, memorial services for the deceased, altar arrangements, and liturgical procedures, embodying the ritual system of large-scale salvation assemblies in Chinese Buddhism. Such literature possesses value for religious practice, Dharma assembly organization, and the history of local printing. This item is an early Ming Taiyuan printed edition and may be used to observe the compilation and transmission of Water and Land ritual texts.