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Yin Memorial Tablet

A dated ceremony with a server-controlled physical tablet seat.

FROMNOT YET AVAILABLEPREPARATIONWithin 7 daysCEREMONY · TAIPEINot publishedREGISTRATION CLOSES · TAIPEINot publishedPHYSICAL CAPACITYNot published

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IS THIS FOR YOU?

This is for someone who has died, and for the people still carrying them.

When someone in your family died and there has never been a tablet, a rite, or a day set aside with their name on it
When you live too far from the grave, the temple or the family altar to tend any of it yourself
When the funeral was hurried, or fell in a year when nobody could travel
When an anniversary is coming and you would rather the day hold something done, not only something felt
When the last person who knew how any of this was done properly is one of the people who died

CHOOSE THE OFFERING

Choose the form that fits the moment.

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CHOOSE A PLANOne NameNOT YET AVAILABLE

Choose this when it is one person you are thinking of, a mother, a father, a friend, and the reason nothing has been done for them is an ocean, a job, a year that got away from everybody.

One departed name is written, and the whole rite is spent on that one person. What changes at the larger tablets is only how many names go on the paper; the writing, the reading aloud and the fire are the same here as there.

Four NamesNOT YET AVAILABLE

Choose this when the grief is not one person's, and the people your family would name in the same breath should be seated together rather than called in one at a time.

Up to four departed names stand on one tablet and are read out in a single breath, as one household, instead of as four separate errands on the same morning. It is one tablet at every rung of this rite; four is how many names may be written on it.

Eight Names / LineageNOT YET AVAILABLE

Choose this when the honest answer to how many names is that you do not know, and you want the whole line held at once, including the generations nobody in the family can name anymore.

This tablet is not written to a list of people at all. It is written to your family line under the surname you give, which is how the tradition takes in the generations whose names nobody wrote down, and why no one is left off for want of a seat or a memory.

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The Unfinished Goodbye

One Name

$88

Suited to

A parent who died while you were abroad
A friend nobody in the family will formally remember
A death from years ago that was never marked
One name you have been carrying on your own

Not covered here

A second name. One name is written here; up to four are written on Four Names.
A living person's name. A blessing for someone still here belongs on the Yang Blessing Tablet, and a companion animal on the Pet Memorial Rite.
A guaranteed outcome, and nothing is mailed to you. This is a one-time observance rather than a permanent placement, and it makes no claim about where the departed now stands.

They died while I was on the other side of the world, and I have never done anything for them.
The funeral was over in three days and I barely remember standing there.
Every year the anniversary comes around, and every year I let it pass.
I am the only one left who says their name out loud.

One name, carried alone for years, given a seat at last.

Seated Together

Four Names

$188

Suited to

Both parents, remembered together
A grandparent and the spouse who followed soon after
Two who died within the same year
A family altar with several names and no one left nearby to tend it
Four people who would have sat down at the same table

Not covered here

A fifth name. Four is the count written here; the tablet that takes a family line without counting is Eight Names / Lineage.
Anyone still living. A living name belongs on the Yang Blessing Tablet, and the dog or the cat who died in those same years belongs on the Pet Memorial Rite.
A guaranteed outcome, and nothing is mailed to you. What comes back is written, and it is written once.

We buried my father, then my mother, and then everybody just went back to work.
There is an altar in my aunt's house that nobody has put fruit on since she died.
We lost two of them in the same year, and it all ran together.
My relatives keep asking whether anything is being done, and I have never had an answer for them.

Four names, one tablet, and they come in together.

Everyone, Named or Not

Eight Names / Lineage

$388

Suited to

Ancestors nobody in the family can name anymore
A surname carried abroad for three generations
A grave the family can no longer reach
The generations behind the ones you were told about
Names lost to war or to migration

Not covered here

No tablet at any rung brings a message back from the person. Nothing returns in their voice, and we will not pretend otherwise.
A companion animal is not seated on a family tablet; the Pet Memorial Rite is written for exactly that, and a living name belongs on the Yang Blessing Tablet.
This is remembrance, not care for the living, and it is not medical, legal or financial advice. If the grief has become more than you can carry, this rite is no substitute for the people who can help you carry it.

There are names on the family altar I can no longer place.
My grandparents left, and nothing about the generations before them came with them.
The graves are somewhere we cannot get to anymore.
I am the third generation abroad, and the line stops at whatever I happen to remember.
Nobody in this family has made an offering to the ancestors in thirty years.

The whole line, including the names nobody is left to say.

READY WHEN THE INTENTION IS CLEAR

Place the offering with care.

Your final total is confirmed before payment.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

What is done, and who does it

01
The form that opens after payment asks for very little: the name as it should be written, your relationship to them, and their birth details if you happen to have them.
02
The tablet is written out by hand, the full name in black ink down the yellow paper kept for the departed, never the red used for the living, and the petition is copied beneath it in your name and the birth details you gave.
03
On the ceremony day the tablet stands on the memorial altar before the Earth Store Bodhisattva, the offerings are set out fresh that morning, and the petition is read aloud, word by word.
04
Afterward the paper is carried to the furnace of the allied temple and fed in by hand, unhurried, and the tablet goes in last.

THE ALTAR TABLE

What is laid out on the day.

Three cups of clear teaPoured fresh and set at the front, the way you would put a cup down for someone who has just come in from a long way off.
A bowl of white rice, chopsticks laid flat across the rimThe chopsticks rest across the rim rather than standing upright in the rice, because upright is the shape kept for the funeral, and this table is a meal laid the way you would lay it at home.
Plainly cooked vegetarian dishesA deliverance rite made before the Earth Store Bodhisattva is kept meatless; nothing is killed on the day a person is being sent on.
Whole fruit, three kindsUnblemished and uncut, and never guava or tomato, whose seeds the old rule keeps off an altar.
White chrysanthemums and liliesWhite flowers, not red, because red is the color of a celebration and this is not one.
A pair of plain white candlesLit at the opening and left to burn down on their own, so that for as long as the name is standing there is a flame in the room that belongs to no one else.
A long stick of incense, replaced before it burns outThe smoke is what the petition travels on, and it is not allowed to go out while a name is standing on the altar.

On the day, if you want something to do from your own side of the world, say their name out loud once and put something of theirs where you can see it. The rite is not made weaker by a day you spent working, or a day you spent crying. None of this is required, and nothing at the altar depends on it.

PREPARED FOR THE RITE

The same goods are prepared at every tier.

Rebirth money, the pale sheets printed with the crossing verse, folded by hand into bundles rather than run through in a stack
Silver paper, large silver for the elders and small silver for the road, creased one sheet at a time
Paper clothing, a folded set with comb, cloth and shoes, so that nobody arrives at the crossing in rags
Treasury money, the bundle tradition sends with a person to settle what was borrowed at birth
A folded silver lotus, creased petal by petal from silver rather than white paper, and set on the table as a seat
The hand-written memorial tablet itself, the full name in black ink, written once, without correction

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

What is written down for you afterward

A written account of the rite comes back to you: the name exactly as it stood on the tablet, the day it stood there, the burning that followed at the allied temple, and what was folded and offered alongside it. It reaches you privately, by email or by WhatsApp, and the file opens with your own date of birth, so it stays between you and this house. No photograph comes back from this rite.

The written account reaches you, by email or WhatsApp, within about seven days of the ceremony date. If that date is still weeks out, the wait is the calendar and not us: a tablet cannot stand before the day it was written for. On the day itself the tablets are placed, read and carried to the furnace, so a message sent then may sit until evening; it will be answered.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

A short private-details preview

The actual form stays in the secure order flow. We ask only for the details required for this offering.

Your full nameRequired after checkout
Your structured birth detailsRequired after checkout
Name for the memorial tabletRequired after checkout

BEFORE YOU ORDER

Have these ready.

Your own full name and birth details, the date, the birthplace, and the time if you know it. The petition is read from you, so it has to say who is asking, and for whom.
The name for the memorial tablet, written the way it should appear: the full name, family name first if that is how they used it.
Your relationship to them, chosen from a short list, parent, grandparent, ancestor, family line, or other. It goes into the petition, and it is how the deity is told who this person was to you.
Their birth details, if you have them, even a year on its own. Many families do not have them, especially for a grandparent born somewhere nobody was writing it down; leave the line empty rather than guess.
How you want the written account sent, an email address or a WhatsApp number. Nothing is mailed to you.
Your own date of birth, which becomes the password on the file, so that nobody but you opens it.

TRUST AND BOUNDARIES

A traditional service, handled with care.

Your private order details stay within the secure order and intake flow.
The published preparation time begins after the required intake is complete.
Review the applicable refund policy before payment; changes may be limited once preparation has begun.
This is a traditional religious service, not medical, legal, or financial advice.
The rite is a formal expression of prayer and respect; it does not guarantee a specific life result.

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