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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1217/1/1913
Title:: வாள் விருத்தம்
Scope & Content:: This manuscript describes the Procession of the Prophet Nabigal Nayagam with his Sword. It starts with leaf no.5. நபிகள் நாயகத்தின் சிறப்புக்களை அவன் வாளுடன் பவனி வரும் போது எடுத்துரைப்பதாக இச்சுவடி அமைந்துள்ளது. ஏட்டெண் 5இல் நூல் தொடங்குகிறது. Extent: 2. Size and dimensions of original mater...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 5

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):: EAP1221/5/2
Title:: Wedding texts
Scope & Content:: A series of eight Spiti wedding song texts and one speech text.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 137

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/5/2/8
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, Title is (Tib. སྲིད་པ་གཉའ་རབས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་གླུ་མཁས་པ་དགའ་བའི་གཏམ་བརྒྱུད་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. srid pa gnya' rabs kyi gzhung glu mkhas pa dga' ba'i gtam brgyud zhes bya ba bzhugs so). The owner suggests...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 22

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):: EAP1221/6/2/6
Title:: Sections of a brass knife handle and sheath
Scope & Content:: Sections of a beautifullt ornate brass knife and sheath. Perhaps གཡུ་བ།་ (wylie g.yu ba). Extent: Three sections of a brass kife and sheath.Size and dimensions of original material: 17 x 4 cm; 5.5 x 5 cm; and 3 x 4.5 cm. Condition of original material: The knife itself is no longer in existence. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

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):: EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:: ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:: A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1

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