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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/1/27
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A tantric ritual involving the construction of a large three sided torma (ཟོར) as a weapon to be used against evil spirits. ཟོར་ལམ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཟོར a large malign torma, magic weapon ལམ the road or way o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 16

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/1/28
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text dealing with calculations, readings and predictions following death. ཤིན་རྩི་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཤིན་རྩི astrology of death གསལ་བ appearing མེ་ལོང mirror. Extent: O...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 48

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/1/29
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Covered in brown cloth An astrological text. Divination and prophesy through the power of the protector deity Dorje Legpa ( རྡོ་རྗེས་ལེགས་པ). A book with charts, a drawing, lists and tables རྡོ་རྗེས་...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 62

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/1/30
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, with some "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script No title page. An unidentified astrological text that mentions divination through consulting a rosary (ཕྲེང་མོ་) Some drawings. and charts. Extent: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 52

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/1
Title:: ཞ་མོ་
Scope & Content:: A chowa's hat, made from maroon (red brown) coloured silk and leather. Worn on specific ritual occasions, for example for a fire ceremony, but not for all ritual performances. Extent: One hat.Size and dimensions of original material: 28 x 30 cm. Condition of original material: Worn and creased t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/2
Title:: Metal artefact
Scope & Content:: Two metal objects joined by a metal chain: a file/scraper and a metal artefact containing five metals: gold, silver, iron, copper and brass. Powder produced from all five metals is added to ritual dough offerings (torma) in some ceremonies. Extent: One artefact. Size and dimensions of original m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/3
Title:: མར་རྟགས ?
Scope & Content:: An animal bone "piping syringe", probably made from the lower leg bone of a sheep. The bone has a hole drilled in its end, and is filled with butter which is extruded with a stick "plunger", to create butter piping to decorate ritual dough offerings (torma). Extent: One animal bone piping syringe...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/4
Title:: ཏིང་ཤགས།
Scope & Content:: Tingshag. A pair of small hand cymbals joined together with a leather thong. Extent: One pair of small cymbals. Size and dimensions of original material: Each 7.2 cm in diameter 2 cm high. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/5
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ།
Scope & Content:: Dorje phurba. A three side iron tantric dagger with attached cloth. Three heads of the protector deity Tamdrin (Hyagrypha) the wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. Extent: One dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 cm long x 3 cm wide. Arrangement: All the material is kept ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 3

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