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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1/3/5
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 x 11 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer ro...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 3

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/4
Title:: Chherring Tobgye Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Chherring Tobgye. A small collection of one medical text and three ritual artefacts.Custodial history: The material was all gathered during the current owners lifetime.Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room of Chherring Tobgye's house (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 32

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/4/2/1
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/4/2/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/4/2/3
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/5
Title:: Tsering Tashi Labu Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Tsering Tashi Labu. A collection of medical texts and Spiti song and speech texts. Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father Labu Chherring, who inherited the bulk of the material from his father, Tsering Tashi Labu's grandfather...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 4843

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/6
Title:: Chherring Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Chherring Dorje. A collection of medical texts and medical artefacts.Custodial history: All items handed down from grandfather to father to son for over six generationsand probably many more.Arrangement: All items are kept in the prayer room of Chherring Dorje (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 2836

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/6/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པ་གསང་བ་མན་ངག་གི་རྒྱུད་ལས་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། This second of the four medical tantras, the four main texts for Tibetan doctors (amchi). The se...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 116

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