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Project / Collection Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers Language Not applicable Subject Death

1. EAP1016/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3
Title:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery [Mid 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery near Dharamsala, India. An archive of objects, texts and Lama Mani thangkas which includes some modern copies of much older thangkas in the collection. The precise provenance of the individual items in the collection is undocumented and unknown but i...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
2296 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2
Title:
Thangkas [Mid 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
. Creation dates: The thangkas are almost always undated and without contact with the original owners, dates are necessarily approximate. Extent and format of original material: Fifteen Thangkas. This Series contains the following 15 Files: EAP1016/3/2/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the s...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
580 TIFF images

3. EAP1016/3/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/3
Title:
The older of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The older of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol ཀུན་དགའ་རང་གྲོལ (Wylie Kun dga’ rang grol), and depicting the Lord of Death and the judgement of the dead, detailing the myriad forms of suffering within the realms of Hell. Size including the clot...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
93 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/3/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/4
Title:
The newer of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol [Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The newer of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol ཀུན་དགའ་རང་གྲོལ (Wylie Kun dga’ rang grol), and depicting the Lord of Death and the judgement of the dead, detailing the myriad forms of suffering within the realms of Hell. Size including the clot...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
35 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5
Title:
The collection of Pema Wangdu [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The collection of Pema Wangdu in Miao, Arunachal Pradesh, India. A collection of old Lama Mani texts and thangkas and a brass pointer inherited from his teacher. Extent and format of original material: Three Series. This Fonds contains the following 3 Series: EAP1016/5/1: Objects [Late 19th ce...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
662 TIFF images

6. EAP1016/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2
Title:
Thangkas [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Seven items. This Series contains the following 7 Files: EAP1016/5/2/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century] EAP1016/5/2/2: A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara [Late 19th century] EAP1016/5/2/3: A than...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
78 TIFF images

7. EAP1016/5/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok (Wylie 'das log) Karma Wangzin (Wylie Karma dbang 'dzin). Delok stories are key texts for Lama Manipa and illustrate the prinicples of karma and Buddhist concepts of death and reincarnation. The thangka depicts the judgement of the dead and...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
9 TIFF images

8. EAP1016/5/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2/3
Title:
A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, known to Tibetans as Chenrezig (Wylie spyan ras gzigs). The painting shows a few simple scenes of the killing of animals as well as a small scene depicting hell and the judgment of the dead in the bottom left corn...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
15 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/6
Title:
The family collection of Tsering Dondup [Mid 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
The family collection of Tsering Dondup in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India. A collection of old Lama Mani thangkas inherited from his grandfather, some of which have been replaced with modern copies. The items are kept rolled up within the the prayer room of the owner's household. Extent and f...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
115 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/6/1
Title:
Thangkas [Mid 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Thirteen items. This Series contains the following 13 Files: EAP1016/6/1/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Pema Öbar [Late 19th century]EAP1016/6/1/2: A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the Delok Sangye Chözom [Early 21st century...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
115 TIFF images