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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1221/8

31. EAP1221/8/1/29

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/29
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is a prayer book for daily recitation. Several symbols drawn on the later pages. (Tib. འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱིས་གསུངས་པའི་རྒྱུན་འདོན་བཞུགས་སོ།་ Wylie. 'phags pa 'jam dpal gyis gsu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
9

32. EAP1221/8/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2
Title:
Ritual artefacts
Scope & Content:
A series of three ritual artefacts.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
19

33. EAP1221/8/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould (Tib. དཔར་ཤིང་ Wylie. dpar shing, sometimes called Zan Par, though this term seems not to be used in Spiti). These moulds are used to make impressions of figures and symbols into dough offerings used in tantric rituals. The spectrum of carvings on these dough moulds include h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
16

34. EAP1221/8/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/2
Title:
perhaps རིན་ཆེན་ཌ་རུ།
Scope & Content:
The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are used medicinally, added to tsampa (barley dough) then made into edible tantric ritual offerings. Extent: One artefact. Size and dimensions of original m...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

35. EAP1221/8/2/3

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