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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/2/7
Title:: རི་མོ་
Scope & Content:: Two parts of a drawing of a mandala. Hand drawn on to thick hand made paper which has been folded into six sections and again into five section. The middle section has been lost. A mandala used during fire ceremonies, an explanatory diagram of image and text. Extent: Two remaining sections from a...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/2/8
Title:: A paper chart
Scope & Content:: A folded paper document, probably an astrological document. Perhaps used with dice (mentioned). Eight folded sections and one loose section. The fieldwork team suggest that at least two sections are missing. Extent: Nine remaining sections from a larger document. Size and dimensions of original ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

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):: EAP1221/10/2/10
Title:: རྡེའུ
Scope & Content:: A cloth pouch and assorted beans of three colours: black, white and red-brown. The beans are used with the astrological thangka, a counting tool to assist with divination. Extent: One pouch and numerous beans. Size and dimensions of original material: Pouch is 15 cm x 7 cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/2/11
Title:: རི་མོ་
Scope & Content:: An unidentified offering deity drawing on hand made paper, folded into three sections. Images of unidentified goddesses. Extent: One drawing. Size and dimensions of original material: 10 x 16 cm folding to 20 x 5.5 cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/10/2/12
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould, carved with numerous figures and symbols: human and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and symbols, nagas. The figures and symbols are pressed into ritual dough offerimgs (torma) during tantric ceremonies. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimensions of original...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 37

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):: EAP1221/11/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual to remove parka obstacles. A text for a ritual performed for people with problems related to their parka (སྤར་ཁ), part of their astrological make up. There are eight parka signs, co...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title page is missing. This is a text for a ritual performed at the age of 9, and then every nine years to follow, a ritual to remove obstacles that are commonly thought to occur at these ag...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

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