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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Project / Collection Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers Place Tibet, China

1. 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

2. EAP1016/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1
Title:
Objects [Late 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Five objects. This Series contains the following 5 Files: EAP1016/3/1/1: A brass pointer [Late 19th century] EAP1016/3/1/2: A green, red and yellow hat [Mid 20th century] EAP1016/3/1/3: A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme [Late 20t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
10 TIFF images

3. EAP1016/3/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/3
Title:
A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme [Late 20th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme (Wylie ’Gyur med) from the Department of Religion and Culture, Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It explains that Buchen Gyurme came from Shelkar (Dingri) in Tibet and travelled widely in Tibet, performing a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
1 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5
Title:
The collection of Pema Wangdu [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The collection of Pema Wangdu in Miao, Arunachal Pradesh, India. A collection of old Lama Mani texts and thangkas and a brass pointer inherited from his teacher. Extent and format of original material: Three Series. This Fonds contains the following 3 Series: EAP1016/5/1: Objects [Late 19th ce...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
662 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2
Title:
Thangkas [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Seven items. This Series contains the following 7 Files: EAP1016/5/2/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century] EAP1016/5/2/2: A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara [Late 19th century] EAP1016/5/2/3: A than...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
78 TIFF images

6. EAP1016/5/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2/3
Title:
A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, known to Tibetans as Chenrezig (Wylie spyan ras gzigs). The painting shows a few simple scenes of the killing of animals as well as a small scene depicting hell and the judgment of the dead in the bottom left corn...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
15 TIFF images