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This canonical ID (56) currently groups 3 source layers with divergent titles. Milestone-1 migration preserves every layer below without inventing a single merged narrative. Status: needs-review.

  • Prayer Flags, Dhāraṇī Banners and Inscribed Protection
  • Celestial Masters Confession and Healing

Layer 1: Prayer Flags, Dhāraṇī Banners and Inscribed Protection

Section titled “Layer 1: Prayer Flags, Dhāraṇī Banners and Inscribed Protection”

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

Sacred formulas printed or written on cloth, paper, stone, wood or architectural elements can function as blessings and apotropaic devices. Wind-horse flags are Tibetan; dhāraṇī pillars are important in East Asia.

Reliability: A/B.



Layer 2: Celestial Masters Confession and Healing

Section titled “Layer 2: Celestial Masters Confession and Healing”

Source file: 02_Daoism.md

Early Tianshi Dao connected illness with moral/cosmic disorder. Confession, petitions to the Three Officials and ritual correction could be central to healing.

Reliability: B.



Source file: 03_Shinto.md

Rites/festivals for pacifying dangerous spirits and epidemic powers. Historically major in Heian Japan.

Reliability: A/B.