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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1/1/5
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is the text for a rite to summon the bla (life force/ vital energy/ soul / spirit of a deceased person) back into the body when ill or when some other problem has caused the bla to leav...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 16

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1/1/23
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This may be a ritual to kill an enemy by the wrathful application of the karma of destroying མགུ་རུས་དྲག་པོའི་སྒྲལ་བྱེད་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་དགྲ་ལས་སེབ་ལེ་བཞུར་དྲག་ལས་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 26

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1/1/25
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A Zhi Tro ritual usually undertaken after a death and during the Bardo period.་བཞིས་ཕྲོས་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔའི་ལས་བྱངས་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ། better as: བཞིས་གྲོ་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔའི་ལས་བྱངས་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ། ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8
Title:: Nyima Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Nyima Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts.Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well resp...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 600

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/20
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is not a chowa tantric ritual text, but a religious text, usually used for reading after someone has died. (Tib. གཟའ་ཡུམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་རྗེ་གནང་བུམ་མཆོག་དང་བཅས་...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10
Title:: Urgyen Thinley Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Urgyen Thinley. A collection of ritual and astrological texts and artefacts.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 1055

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/1/8
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, with additional text writen in blue biro at the end in "headless" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual named after the harmful spirit / consuming demon/ gobbling v...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 8

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/1/13
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 concerning correct behaviour before cremation…for example specifying which people (defined by year of birth) should hide when the body is taken to the cremati...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 20

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