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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language Tibetan Subject Sculpture

1. EAP880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1
Title:
Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:
While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:
1807-1998
Extent:
89249 TIFF images

2. EAP880/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/7
Title:
Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Personal and official correspondences. Original file reference: SPA/CO.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1875-1975
Extent:
4793 TIFF images

3. EAP880/1/7/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/7/15
Title:
Official correspondence regarding domestic and foreign affairs
Scope & Content:
Collection of the correspondence of Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal (Chogyal r.1914), Basil Gould (PO Sikkim) and various individuals. Original file reference: SPA/CO/OF/015. Extent of original material: 199 pages. This file contains the following 126 items: EAP880/1/7/15/1: Chart explaining the variou...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
16 Jan 1912-23 Oct 1913
Extent:
200 TIFF images

4. EAP1221/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1
Title:
Dorje Chherring Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Dorje Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts and a single wedding speech text. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
1046

5. EAP1221/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1
Title:
Ritual texts
Scope & Content:
A series of thirty ritual texts.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
962

6. EAP1221/1/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/3
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text including "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, and drawings (རི་མོ) of thorma (གཏོར་མ།) which are a kind of sculptural dough offering (མཆོད་པ) to the deities, widely used in chowa tantric rituals.Ex...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
6

7. EAP1221/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8
Title:
Nyima Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Nyima Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts.Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well resp...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
600

8. EAP1221/8/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1
Title:
Ritual texts
Scope & Content:
A series of twenty nine ritual texts.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
581

9. EAP1221/8/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/9
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual off...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
72

10. EAP1221/8/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/12
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An exorcism ritual involving the making of a sculpted dough offering (lud) of a black figure (སྟོ་ནག ) (Tib. སྟོ་ནག་ཚན་མི་འབྲ་ཟོར་མ་ངོས་ཀྱིས་བཟློག་འགྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. sto nag t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
16