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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1016/3 Subject Buddhism

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. EAP1016/3/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/1
Title:
A brass pointer [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A brass pointer, square in cross section and with a mantra engraved on the shaft. 92 cm long, decorated with attachments including trinkets, small bells, a piece of red thread, a ring, and an image of the Buddha. Such pointers are used by Lama Manipas to indicate key scenes depicted on a narrati...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2
Title:
Thangkas [Mid 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
. Creation dates: The thangkas are almost always undated and without contact with the original owners, dates are necessarily approximate. Extent and format of original material: Fifteen Thangkas. This Series contains the following 15 Files: EAP1016/3/2/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the s...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
580 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/3/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Zukyi Nyima [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Zukyi Nyima གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ (Wylie gZugs kyi nyi ma). Size including the cloth surround 162 x 85.5cm. Width at bottom is 93cm. Image (melong) size 77.5 x 54cm. Central figure of Buddha Shakyamuni. Finely detailed and in very good condition overall wit...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
83 TIFF images

6. EAP1016/3/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/12
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Norzang [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Norzang ནོར་བཟང (Wylie Nor bzang). Size including the cloth surround 134 x 81. Image (melong) size 69.5 x 54cm. Age 100-150 years. Finely detailed and with some paint loss, creasing and darkening of the overall image from use. Central figure of Buddh...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
23 TIFF images

7. EAP1016/3/2/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/13
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa རྒྱལ་བཟའ་བལ་བཟའ (Wylie rGyal bza’ bal bza’). Also known as Gyelmo gonjor རྒྱལ་མོ་གོང་འབྱོར (Wylie rgyal mo gong 'byor) Size including the cloth surround 148 x 89cm Width at bottom 91 cm. Image (melong) size 84 x 58.5 cm. Richly detailed. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
29 TIFF images

8. EAP1016/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3
Title:
Texts [Mid 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Twenty four texts. This Series contains the following 24 Files: EAP1016/3/3/1: འ་རི་ཕྱིར་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལོ་ཙྭ་འདས་ལོགས་པད་མ་ཆོ་ …. བདག་ལ་ ….. འིན་ལན་ རང་ཕྲིན་པར་བཀུར་བའི་ལོ་རྒྱུ་རྣམ་ཐར་ [Mid 19th century] EAP1016/3/3/2: ༄༅། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ནོར་བུ་བཟང་པོའི་རྣམ་...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
1706 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/3/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/1
Title:
འ་རི་ཕྱིར་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལོ་ཙྭ་འདས་ལོགས་པད་མ་ཆོ་ …. བདག་ལ་ ….. འིན་ལན་ རང་ཕྲིན་པར་བཀུར་བའི་ལོ་རྒྱུ་རྣམ་ཐར་ [Mid 19th century]
Scope & Content:
The complete title is difficult to read because of darkening of the paper. Legible sections include: Wylie: ‘ ri phyi gnyis kyi lo tsva ‘das logs padma cho….bdag la…..i’n lan rang phrin par bkur ba’i lo rgyu rnam thar. A biographical text telling the story of the delok Padma (Pema) Choskyit, des...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
88 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/3/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/5
Title:
An offering prayer for tea [Early 20th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Single loose folio. An offering prayer for tea. 24.75 cm x 7.5 cm. It has a handwritten verso note detailing the eight stupas/chorten of Tibetan Buddhism. . Creation dates: Early to mid 20th Century. 70-120 years. Custodial history: A text donated to Dolma Ling nunnery by Buchen Gyurme. It prob...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images