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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Material Type Artefacts

671. EAP1221/8/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:
ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:
A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1

672. EAP1221/10/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single large figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with detail: zodiacal year signs, astrological trigrams, animal figures and mantra text. Ca...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
3

673. EAP1221/10/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/2
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single enchained figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with decorative detail and mantra text. Carved on one side only. Extent: One wooden pri...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4

674. EAP1221/10/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/3
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block, for printing an image consisting of concentric circles of mantra text on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with decorative detail. Carved on one side only. Extent: One wooden ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

675. EAP1221/10/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/4
Title:
དེབ་ཆུང
Scope & Content:
A short text. A book of drawings and instructions for a fire ceremony. A text related to the Pema Lingpa གུ་རུ་པདྨ་གླིང་ tradition of the Nyingma school. འགུ་རུ་པདྨ་སླིང་པའི་དྲགས་པོ་དམར་ཆེན་གྱི་ལས་སློགས་ཙཀྲའི་དེང་ཆུང་བཞུགས་སོ། as written གུ་རུ་པདྨ་གླིང་པའི་དྲགས་པོ་དམར་ཆེན་གྱི་ལས་ལོགས་ཙཀྲའི་དེབ་ཆུ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
14

676. EAP1221/10/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/5
Title:
རི་མོ་
Scope & Content:
A drawing / painting of a Garuda figure and text. On handmade paper mounted on to cloth and folded into three. Extent: One drawing / painting. Size and dimensions of original material: 20.5 x 18 cm , folding to 6.5 x 20.5 cm. Condition of original material: Some staining. Paper damage in the fold...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

677. EAP1221/10/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/6
Title:
རི་མོ་
Scope & Content:
A woodblock print of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava). Extent: One woodblock print. Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 29 cm, folding to 9.75 x 29 cm. Condition of original material: Some ink faded, small paper holes.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

678. EAP1221/10/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/7
Title:
རི་མོ་
Scope & Content:
Two parts of a drawing of a mandala. Hand drawn on to thick hand made paper which has been folded into six sections and again into five section. The middle section has been lost. A mandala used during fire ceremonies, an explanatory diagram of image and text. Extent: Two remaining sections from a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
5

679. EAP1221/10/2/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/8
Title:
A paper chart
Scope & Content:
A folded paper document, probably an astrological document. Perhaps used with dice (mentioned). Eight folded sections and one loose section. The fieldwork team suggest that at least two sections are missing. Extent: Nine remaining sections from a larger document. Size and dimensions of original ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

680. EAP1221/10/2/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/9
Title:
གབ་རྩེ་་
Scope & Content:
An astrological thangka/ divination chart, used to calculate auspicious and inauspicious dates for an individual, depending on their day, month and year of birth. Made from handmade paper coated in a wheat paste gesso ground. Stored in a wooden tube with copper end pieces. Image shows zodiacal ye...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4