Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Language: Tibetan - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/12
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a text describing how to erect a flagpole for Tibetan prayer flags (lung ta lit. windhorse). Title is perhaps: རླུང་རྟ་སྒྲེང་ཚུལ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of five...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 11

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/13
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a brown cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a liberation text. A short ritual saving the life of an animal due to be slaughtered. The animal is beautified, its ears decorated with red col...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/14
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a dark blue cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. An unidentified astrological text. Extent: One book consisting of thirty nine folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 28 cm...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 81

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/1
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ
Scope & Content:: A ritual dagger and holder, a common tantric artefact used in many chowa rituals. Extent: one dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 26 cm long. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough shapes made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Numerous carvings of human and humanoid figures and symbols. Extent: one dough mould. Size and dimensions of original material: 57.5cm x 4 cm x 3 cm. Condition of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 35

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/3
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/4
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/12
Title:: Urgyen Tsewang Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection Urgyen Tsewang. A small collection of medical texts. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room of Urgyen Tsewang (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 299

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