A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
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A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa རྒྱལ་བཟའ་བལ་བཟའ (Wylie rGyal bza’ bal bza’). Also known as Gyelmo gonjor རྒྱལ་མོ་གོང་འབྱོར (Wylie rgyal mo gong 'byor) Size including the cloth surround 148 x 89cm Width at bottom 91 cm. Image (melong) size 84 x 58.5 cm. Richly detailed. ...
The collection of Pema Wangdu [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
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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...
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...
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century]
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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...
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 2 manuscripts digitised from a private collection in Patan, Nepal. The owner of the material is Naresh Shakya....
This manuscript is about paintings of Buddhist deities. It has 12 very important paintings in sexo yogic themes. It provides details of the classical sacred iconography of Newar deities and sexo yogic significance. Custodial history: Personal collection. Extent and format of original material:...
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 12 manuscripts digitised from a private collection in Bhaktapur, Nepal. The owner of the material is Pravakar ...
Private Collection of Royal family of Cussimbazar (Roy)
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Custodial history: Around 1700 AD Ajodhya Ram Roy of Pirojpur village near Bhagabangola and the river Padma (who traced his descent from Patrasayer of Burdwan District) came with his family to settle down in Cossimbazar, a renowned port city of Bengal closed to Murshidabad, the capital of the Na...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Not applicable
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century
Collections of Rao Bahadur C.M. Ramachandran Chettiar of Coimbatore
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This collection was produced by Rao Bahadur C.M. Ramachandran Chettiar (known as Kovaikizhar) of Coimbatore between 1925-1953. Presently the collection is in Thavathiru Santhalinga Adigalar Arts, Science & Tamil College library at Coimbatore. The collection contains five folders in series le...
The title of the Album is "Photos of various Temples of India- Rao Bahadur C.M. Ramachandra chettiar of Coimbatore"
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Photo album containing 52 folios of various Temples of India, landscape and monuments. Extent: Album 1 containing 52 folios. Condition of original material: Endangered condition. The folios are separated from the album, Deterioration of the album caused by insects. Several Photographs are fade...
