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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/4/1
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Carved with Tibetan text, probably a mantra, on one side and the six syllable mantra and the twelve animals, the twelve year signs of the Tibetan calendar on the other. Ext...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 16

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/4/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Carvings include human and humanoid figures, symbols and the twelve animals, the twelve year signs of the Tibetan calendar on the other. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Si...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 20

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/4/3
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Carvings include human and humanoid figures, symbols and the twelve animals, the twelve year signs of the Tibetan calendar on the other. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Si...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/4/4
Title:: ཐོ་མོ་ཆེ / མཐོ་མོ་ཆེ
Scope & Content:: A painted wooden staff used by the nyahon, the head of the group of wedding singers. The staff is an important element in the performance of the stone songs, an elaborate and competitive ceremony undertaken during large Spiti weddings. Extent: One wooden staff. Size and dimensions of original ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20
Title:: Thukten Chhoezang Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Thukten Chhoezang. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Loose texts kept in the prayer room in a cardboard box.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 181

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །གཙུག་ཏོར་དཀར་མོའི་ཟློག་སྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། A ritual text for exorcising or averting evil and obstacles. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Size and dimensions of original ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 10

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཐུབ་པའི་དབང་པོའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་བདུད་དཔུང་ཕྱེ་མར་འཐག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། Shakyamuni’s praise to Vairocana. Reading this text is an effective way of repelilng demons....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/3
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །གནོད་སྦྱིན་ཀྴཧྲ་པཱ་ལ་མཆོད་གཏོར་འབུལ་ཚུལ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རེ་སྐོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། A ritual for making offerings to powerful bodyless spirits (which can be benevolent or malevolent) in order to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 20

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