Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Birth - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/1/30
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text, covering all the key occasions when astrologers are consulted and perform calculations: for weddings, after the birth of a child, following a death etc. གཙུག...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 6

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/1/38
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An untitled astrological text, perhaps related to གསོན་རྩིས། which refers to the calculations undertaken by astrologers at key points in a humans life…birth, weddings,. Extent: One book c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 35

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/1/39
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A cloth covered handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An untitled astrological text full of charts and symbols used for calculations related to dates of birth and auspicious dates for planned events. Extent: One book consisting...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 22

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11
Title:: Mingyur Tenzin Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Mingyur Tenzin. A collection of ritual and astrological texts and artefacts.Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 425

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/3
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/4
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13
Title:: Gatuk Chherring Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Gatuk Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 834

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