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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Place Kathmandu, Nepal Level [32] Fonds

1. EAP760/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP760/1
Title:
The Tīrthalāl Naghabhanī Archive (TLA)
Scope & Content:
This collection contains the following 6 series: EAP760/1/1: Candannāth Papers, 1867-1918 EAP760/1/2: Tīrthalāl Collection (TLC) [The Family and the Regime], 1763-1968 EAP760/1/3: Financial Transactions, 1860-1983 EAP760/1/4: Photographs, 1989-1996 EAP760/1/5: Family Collection (TLF), 1125-1996 ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, Newari, Newari, Classical, Not applicable, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1125-2006
Extent:
11039 TIFF images

2. EAP790/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/13
Title:
Anonymus Collector
Scope & Content:
This collector is from Kathmandu.This collection has only one manuscript. It is a manuscript of Goddess Durga. It is important for Hindus to perform religious ritual of the goddess. Extent: 1 file
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
53 TIFF images

3. EAP790/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/15
Title:
Mani Ratna Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection is in Itumbahal, Kathmandu. The collector is an astrologer and a Buddhist. The manuscripts were written and colleted by his ancestors. He inherited this collection. This collection has important Buddhist manuscripts. Extent: 16 files
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
463 TIFF images

4. EAP790/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/18
Title:
Saundryavati Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection belongs to a Buddhist family migrated during the early modern period from Kathmandu to Tansen in Palpa. A small Buddhist Newar community exist in this town. They did every effort to keep alive Newar Buddhist culture out of core Newar civilization. Therefore, they still possess Bu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
223 TIFF images

5. EAP790/19

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/19
Title:
Ratna Man Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection is possed by a Buddhist Newar in Kathmandu who has ancestral ties with Buddhists of Palpa and some other hilly townships. Texts in this collection are mainly ritual texts, Stotra, Sutra and Purana. Newar Buddhists still use those kinds of texts. Extent: 7 files
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
361 TIFF images

6. EAP790/21

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP790/21
Title:
Amrit Ratna Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of the significant manuscripts in private possession. Manuscripts in this collections mostly derived from Hinduism. It also has very old Palm leaves manuscripts.It has different types of manuscripts covering wide variety of themes. Extent: 123 files
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
7197 TIFF images

7. EAP838/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP838/1
Title:
Dirgha Man Collection of photographs [Late 1800s-mid 1940s] Ganesh Man Chitrakar [mid 1940s- early 1950s]
Scope & Content:
These glass plate negatives were taken by Dirgha Man (1877-1951) and Ganesh Man Chitrakar (1916-1985). They are interesting in the context of Nepal’s history as they were Court Photographers. Furthermore, Nepal did not open up to outside visitors until the early-1950s. The photographs that Dirgh...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
5072 TIFF images

8. 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

9. EAP1016/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3
Title:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery [Mid 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery near Dharamsala, India. An archive of objects, texts and Lama Mani thangkas which includes some modern copies of much older thangkas in the collection. The precise provenance of the individual items in the collection is undocumented and unknown but i...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
2296 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/4
Title:
The collection of Tsering Samphel [Early 20th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
The collection of Tsering Samphel in Kathmandu, Nepal. A small collection of Lama Mani thangkas and texts. Extent and format of original material: Two Series. This Fonds contains the following 2 Series: EAP1016/4/1: Thangkas [Early 21st century]EAP1016/4/2: Texts [Early 20th century].
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
773 TIFF images

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