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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/7
Title:: Smriti Shrestha Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection has a very interesting story. It was recovered by a student of Buddhism who after the devastating earthquake of 2015 in Nepal made survey of Buddhist Viharas in Thimi, a small medieval Newar town in Bhaktapur district. In the mound of debris of an abandoned Vihara, she saw some p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 17th century-19th century
Extent:: 72 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/11
Title:: Anuj Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection was recovered in a very small traditional town of Bungamati south of Patan. It is the home town of Bungadyo Aryavalokitesvara, a very famous deity in Newar Buddhism. The collection has miscellanous manuscripts. It has Buddhist and Hindu religious manuscripts as well as texts on a...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 733 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/15
Title:: Mani Ratna Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection is in Itumbahal, Kathmandu. The collector is an astrologer and a Buddhist. The manuscripts were written and colleted by his ancestors. He inherited this collection. This collection has important Buddhist manuscripts. Extent: 16 files
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 463 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/18
Title:: Saundryavati Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection belongs to a Buddhist family migrated during the early modern period from Kathmandu to Tansen in Palpa. A small Buddhist Newar community exist in this town. They did every effort to keep alive Newar Buddhist culture out of core Newar civilization. Therefore, they still possess Bu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 223 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/21
Title:: Amrit Ratna Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of the significant manuscripts in private possession. Manuscripts in this collections mostly derived from Hinduism. It also has very old Palm leaves manuscripts.It has different types of manuscripts covering wide variety of themes. Extent: 123 files
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 7197 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1
Title:: Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:: While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1807-1998
Extent:: 89249 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/5
Title:: Palace Affairs
Scope & Content:: Documents related to palace affairs. Original file reference: SPA/PA.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 1875-1975
Extent:: 17059 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/5/66
Title:: Marriages of Palden Thondup Namgyal (Chogyal r.1965-1982) to Princess Sangay Deki Namgyal and Princess Pema Choki Namgyal to Rinzing Tseten Namgyal Yapshi Yuthok
Scope & Content:: Documents related to the marriage arrangements of prince and princess. Original file reference: SPA/PA/MR/020. Extent of original material: 417 pages. This file contains the following 215 items: EAP880/1/5/66/1: Notesheets regarding the expenditure during the engagement ceremony of Princess Pe...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1949-21 Sep 1950
Extent:: 418 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1023/1
Title:: Amir Shakya Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of 28 collections of rare medieval manuscripts digitised by the EAP1023 project team in Newār settlements in Rural Kathmandu and hill areas of Nepal. This collection contain 60 manuscripts digitised from a private collection in Patan, Nepal. The owner of the material is Amir Shakya. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Nepali, Classical, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-18th century
Extent:: 1658 TIFF images

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